Landscape and land use in postglacial Greece. (2000)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Paul Halstead and Charles Frederick.
• Other Names: Halstead, Paul; Frederick, Charles, 1961-
• Contents: 1. Holocene alluvial history of northern Pieria, Macedonia, Greece / Athanasia Krahtopoulou -- 2. Palynological evidence for human influence on the vegetation of mountain regions in northern Greece, the case of Lailias, Serres / Achilles Gerasimidis -- 3. Local vegetation and charcoal analysis, an example from two late neolithic sites in northern Greece / Maria Ntinou and Ernestina Badal -- 4. Holocene climate change in Crete, an archaeologist's view / Jennifer Moody -- 5. Human impact on the vegetation of southern Greece and problems of palynological interpretation, a case study from Crete / Margaret Atherden -- 6. Deconstructing agricultural terraces, examining the influence of construction method on stratigraphy, dating and archaeological visibility / Charles D. Frederick and Athanasia Krahtopoulou -- Landscape exploitation via pastoralism, examining the 'landscape degradation' versus sustainable economy debate in the post-mediaeval southern Argolid / Hamish Forbes -- 8. Land use in postglacial Greece, cultural causes and environmental effects / Paul Halstead -- 9. The scale and intensity of cultivation, evidence from weed ecology / Amy Bogaard [and others] -- 10. Settlement instability and landscape degradation in the southern Aegean in the third millennium BC / Todd Whitelaw -- 11. Soils and site function, the Laconia rural sites project / Christopher Mee and Peter James.
• Publisher Details: Sheffield, England : Sheffield Academic Press
• Publication Date: 2000
• Extent: 1 online resource (175 pages), illustrations
• Subjects: 333.730938; Landscape archaeology -- Greece; Land use, Rural -- Greece -- History; Land settlement -- Greece -- History; NATURE -- Natural Resources; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Environmental Economics; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Green Business; Antiquities; Land settlement; Land use, Rural; Landscape archaeology; Prehistorie; Landgebruik; Archeologie; Greece -- Antiquities; Greece; Electronic books; History
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780567077189; 0567077187; 1282452665; 9781282452664; 6612452668; 9786612452666
• Related ISBNs: 1841271845; 9781841271842
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references.; Note: Print version record.
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