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Europe's Early Fieldscapes Archaeologies of Prehistoric Land Allotment
Title
Europe's Early Fieldscapes [electronic resource] : Archaeologies of Prehistoric Land Allotment / edited by Stijn Arnoldussen, Robert Johnston, Mette Løvschal.
ISBN
9783030716523
Edition
1st ed. 2021.
Publication
Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2021.
Physical Description
1 online resource (IX, 229 p.) 107 illus., 52 illus. in color.
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Summary
This volume focuses on the development of field systems through time and space and in their wider landscape context, including classical issues pertaining to past land use and management regimes, including manuring, water, land and crop management, and technologies such as slash‐and‐burn, ard and plough. This book provides the first comprehensive attempt to bring together and provide a comprehensive insight into the latest prehistoric fieldscape research across Europe. The book raises a broader awareness of some of the main questions and scientific requests that are addressed by scholars working in various fieldscapes across Europe. Themes addressed in this book include (a) mapping and understanding field system morphologies at various scales, (b) the extraction of information on social processes from field system morphologies, (c) the relations between field systems and cultural and natural features of their environment, (d) time-depths and temporalities of usage, and (e) specifics of the underlying agricultural systems, with special attention to matters of continuity and resilience and relation to changing practices. The case-studies explore how to best approach such landscapes with traditional and novel methodologies and targeted research in order to enhance our knowledge further. The volume offers inspiration and guidance for the heritage management of fieldscapes heritage - not solely for future scholarly research but foremost to stimulate strategic guidance to frame and support improved protection of evidently vulnerable resources for Europe's future. This volume is of interest to landscape archaeologists.
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Language
English
Added to Catalog
August 11, 2023
Series
Themes in Contemporary Archaeology,
Contents
1 A gift of the land. The spread, function and social implications of Europe's early land allotment; Mette Løvschal, Stijn Arnoldussen & Bob Johnston
2 Enclosing and Dividing Land: The Neolithic and Bronze Age Field Systems of Shetland; Claire Christie
3 Formation, use and chronology of Celtic fields: new perspectives from the Groningen Celtic field research programme; Stijn Arnoldussen
4 A large-area prehistoric cultural landscape in the Sachsenwald Forest near Hamburg;Volker Arnold
5 A sheep's eye view. Land division, livestock and people in later prehistoric Somerset, UK; Clare Randall
6 Terraced crop fields in the Eastern Pyrenean mountains (France): the view from pedoarchaeology; Romana Harfouche & Pierre Poupet
7 Fields and farming-systems in Bronze Age Scotland; Stratford Halliday
8 Terraced Fields, Farming, and Farmers at the settlements of Kalamianos and Stiri, Greece; Lynne Kvapil.-9 The changing fieldscapes of Loughcrew: new insights from airborne lidar; Corinne Roughley, Elizabeth Shee Twohig, Colin Shell & Gillian Swanton
10 My home is my castle! Field systems and farms: rhythm and land appropriation during the Bronze Age in north-west France (2300-800 BCE);Cyril Marcigny & Rebecca Peake
11 Tracing the remains of a Late Bronze Age field systems in central mainland Greece; Michael Lane & Vassilis Aravantinos
12 Reconstructing enclosed and parcelled out landscapes from the first millennium BC in Himmerland, Denmark: arable fields, grazing land and settlement patterns examined in three micro-regions; Michael Vinter
13 Understanding the chronologies of England's field systems; Robert Johnston, Rowan May and David McOmish
14 The prehistoric agrarian management pattern in the volcanic landscape of the Campanian Plain, southern Italy; Fabio Saccoccio.
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