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Title Agricultural and pastoral landscapes in pre-industrial society : choices, stability and change / edited by Fèlix Retamero, Inge Schjellerup and Althea Davies
Published Oxford ; Philadelphia : Oxbow Books, 2015

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Series Early agricultural remnants and technical heritage (EARTH) ; volume 3
Early agricultural remnants and technical heritage ; volume 3.
Contents Neolithic Agriculture in Mediterranean Wetlands : A Complement to Pastoralism at Polje Cepic (Istria, Croatia) / Andrea L. Balbo -- Ancient Desert Farming in the Southern Araba Valley, Israel / Uzi Avner -- The Northern Frontier : Northern Atlantic Farming / Christian Keller, Sophia Perdikaris -- Becoming Islanders : Migration and Settlement in the Balearic Islands (10th-13th Centuries) / Helena Kirchner, Fèlix Retamero -- The Transformation Of Riversides : The Example of the Alluvial Valleys of Languedoc and Lower Rhône Valley During the Medieval Period (9th-13th Centuries) / Aline Durand -- The Formation of New Villages on The Northeastern Slopes of the Andes / Inge Schjellerup -- Fields in Prehistoric Bohemia : Fact and Fiction / Dagmar Dreslerová -- Stability and Changes in the Agricultural Use of Limestone Soils in Northern Estonia / Valter Lang -- Prehistoric Agriculture and the Ancient Fields of Mikkeli Orijärvi, Finland / Esa Mikkola, Teija Alenius, Mika Lavento -- Ridge and Furrow Fields : Field Systems ca. 1,000-1,800 as a Stabilising Factor in an Agricultural Society : a Danish Example / Per Grau Møller -- Coping with Gravity : The Case of Mas l'Agustí (Montseny Mountains, Catalonia, Spain, ca. 15th-18th centuries) / Fèlix Retamero -- Landscape Change and Staircase Farming in the Andes of Peru / Inge Schjellerup -- Managing Slopes for Agricultural Purposes : Terrace Typology in Andalusi Hydraulic Systems (Spain) / Eugènia Sitjes -- From a Pre-Urban to an Urban Landscape : Evidence for the Evolution of Early Medieval Plough System. Brussels, Belgium / Luc Vrydaghs, Yannick Devos, Paulo Charruadas, Linda Scott Cummings, Ann Degraeve -- Pastoralism, Landscapes and Forest-Use in the Late Neolithic in Southern Germany / Neils Bleicher -- Medieval Southern Alpine Mountains : perceptions and interweaving diverse sources / Aline Durand -- Flexibility in Upland Farming : Pollen Evidence for the Role of Shielings in the Scottish Farm Economy from ca. 1,600-1,900 / Althea L. Davies -- Moving Up and Down : Two Cases of Seasonal Family Dwellings in Mountainous Areas : Mid-Norway and the Southwestern Alps / Karoline Daugstad, Thomas K. Schippers -- An Example of Vernacular Agro-Pastoral Landscape Perception : The Provençal Transhumant Shepherd / Thomas K. Schippers
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Agriculture -- History -- To 1500
Pastoral systems -- History -- To 1500
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Agriculture -- Agronomy -- Crop Science.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Agriculture -- Agronomy -- General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Archaeology.
Agriculture
Pastoral systems
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Retamero, Fèlix, editor
Schjellerup, Inge, editor
Davies, Althea, editor
LC no. 2015035780
ISBN 9781782970125
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