Archaeology of Mountain Landscapes
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Archaeology of Mountain Landscapes

Interdisciplinary Research Strategies of Agro-Pastoralism in Upland Regions

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Archaeology of Mountain Landscapes

Interdisciplinary Research Strategies of Agro-Pastoralism in Upland Regions

About this book

Explores mountain regions as cultural landscapes that have been shaped by long-term human-environment interactions.

Mountains contain a rich and diverse set of remnants left by human societies. They have been inhabited since prehistory and have been transformed by human activity during prehistorical and historical times, and that history defines mountain landscapes as we know them today. Archaeology of Mountain Landscapes contains twenty contributions by forty-one specialists currently researching mountain areas in the Americas, Asia, and Europe. The different case studies address the subject diachronically, ranging from prehistory to modern times, and employ a variety of methodological strategies, including archaeological surveys and excavation, paleoenvironmental studies, and historical and ethnographical research.

This volume demonstrates how multidisciplinary archaeological fieldwork is radically changing our vision of mountain landscapes. Viewing mountain landscapes as archaeological documents contributes to our understanding of the history of mountain environments and offers new archaeological datasets to use in the interpretation of human societies. Taken together, the essays collected here offer a comprehensive view of current research and suggest new directions for future study.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Illustrations
  6. Chapter One Mountain Landscapes: The Archaeological Perspective
  7. Chapter Two Steps Lost: Mountains as Sacred Topographies?
  8. Chapter Three Toward an Anthropology of Sacred Mountains
  9. Chapter Four An Integrated Approach to the Archaeology of a Sacred Mountain: Sacred Geography, Mobile Pastoralism, and Longue Durée in the Mongolian Altai Mountains
  10. Chapter Five The Mountainscape of the Peak Sanctuary at Leska on Kythera
  11. Chapter Six Exploring Seasonal Transhumance of Hunter-Gatherers and Neolithic Pastoralists in Poland’s High Tatras and Foothill Lowlands: Applying Landscape Archaeology Methodologies from the Colorado Rockies to the Western Carpathians
  12. Chapter Seven The Onset of Alpine Pastoral Systems in the Eastern Alps
  13. Chapter Eight Central Alpine Environments as Mountain Cultural Landscapes from Prehistory to Contemporary Past
  14. Chapter Nine Mountain Archaeology of the Bronze Age Caucasus: From Vertical Pastoralism to Combined Mountain Economy and Mountain Farming
  15. Chapter Ten Landscape Archaeology in Eastern Pyrenees High Mountain Areas (Segre and Ter Valleys, Northeast Iberian Peninsula): Human Activities in the Shaping of Mountain Cultural Landscapes
  16. Chapter Eleven Southern Norway’s Mountain Landscapes: Between National Romantic Legends and the Political Economy of Agropastoralism
  17. Chapter Twelve Comparison between Medieval and Modern Landscape: The Impact of Pastoral Activities in South Greenland
  18. Chapter Thirteen Neolithic Penetration of the European Mid-Mountains
  19. Chapter Fourteen Addressing the Complexity of the Paleoenvironmental Impact of Prehistoric Settlement and Protohistoric Urbanism in the Auvergne Mountains (Massif Central, France)
  20. Chapter Fifteen Holocene Anthropization of Mid-elevation Landscapes around Pic d’Orhy, Western Pyrenees
  21. Chapter Sixteen Highlands and Lowlands—Different Landscapes, Different Archaeologies? A Diachronic Micro-regional Case Study from the Western Taurus Mountains (Southwest Turkey)
  22. Chapter Seventeen Developing a Systematic Approach to the Archaeological Study of Mountain Landscapes: The Raganello Basin Experience
  23. Chapter Eighteen Agropastoralism in a Dispersed Village, Mountain Economy: Results of the Shala Valley Project, Northern Albania
  24. Chapter Nineteen The Inka Landscape of Cusco and the Watanay Valley: Territorial Patterns in Andean Cities
  25. Chapter Twenty On the Supposed Marginality of Mountain Areas
  26. Contributors
  27. Index
  28. Back Cover