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Mediterranean Valley
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Integrating the techniques of archaeology, history and geography, this book traces the history of human settlement in the Biferno Valley from early prehistory to the present century. It also covers the parallel story of landscape development, showing that the two have to be understood together. It argues for the importance of human settlement, rather than climate (as is often argued) in shaping the Mediterranean landscape. This book provides an interdisciplinary study of a restricted region, but about an important theme: the relationship between people and landscape in the past, and what we can learn from it for the future.
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Yes, you can access Mediterranean Valley by Graeme Barker in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in History & World History. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.
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Table of contents
- Contents
- Note on the Biferno Valley Survey
- List of contributors
- List of illustrations
- List of tables
- Preface and acknowledgements
- 1. Approaches to Mediterranean landscape history
- 2. The Biferno valley: the modern landscape
- 3. The Biferno Valley Survey: methodologies
- 4. The natural landscape and its evolution
- 5. Early prehistoric settlement
- 6. The first agricultural communities
- 7. The settlement expansion of the 2nd millennium bc
- 8. Iron age chiefdoms (c.1000–500 BC)
- 9. Pentri, Frentani and the beginnings of urbanization (c. 500–80 BC)
- 10. Roman towns and territories (c. 80 BC–AD 600)
- 11. The evolution of hilltop villages (AD 600–1500)
- 12. Feudalism and the 'Southern Question' (AD 1500 to the present)
- 13. Retrospect: the evolution of a Mediterranean landscape
- Bibliography
- Index