Shaping Cultural Landscapes : : Connecting Agriculture, Crafts, Construction, Transport, and Resilience Strategies.

Any activity requires the expenditure of energy, and the larger the scale of the undertakings, the more careful and strategic planning in advance is required. In focusing on labouring by humans and other animals, the papers in this volume investigate through a wide range of contexts how past people...

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Place / Publishing House:Leiden : : Sidestone Press,, 2022.
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Year of Publication:2022
Edition:1st ed.
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (300 pages)
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Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • Editors' biographies
  • List of contributors
  • Editors' acknowledgements
  • Shaping cultural landscapes through crafts, construction, infrastructure, agriculture and resilience strategies: introduction to the papers
  • Ann Brysbaert, Jari Pakkanen and Irene Vikatou
  • The life of the Marble Mountain: agency and ecology in the marble quarries of ancient Tegea, Greece
  • Jørgen Bakke
  • Building the tholos tomb in Tiryns, Greece: comparative labour costs and field methods
  • Ann Brysbaert, Daniel Turner and Irene Vikatou
  • Mobility as a drive to shape cultural landscapes: prehistoric route-use in the Argolid and surroundings, Greece
  • Ann Brysbaert and Irene Vikatou
  • Tracing the Mycenaean hinterlands. Refining the models of Mycenaean territoriality with insights from the cadastral maps of the Second Venetian Rule in the Peloponnese, Greece
  • Kalliopi Efkleidou
  • Climate, carrying capacity and society: the quest for universal truths
  • Paul Erdkamp
  • Encompassing islandscapes in southern Vanuatu
  • James L. Flexner, Stuart Bedford, and Frederique Valentin
  • After the Preclassic Collapse. A socio-environmental contextualization of the rise of Naachtun (Guatemala)
  • Julien Hiquet, Cyril Castanet, Lydie Dussol, Philippe Nondédéo, Marc Testé, Louise Purdue, Noémie Tomadini, Sandrine Grouard and Antoine Dorison
  • Placing the houses of the dead: the spatial setting of Late Helladic necropoleis in the Argive Plain, Greece
  • Stefan Müller
  • Marble in the mountains - econometrics of quarrying and transporting building stones for the temple of Athena Alea at Tegea, Greece
  • Jari Pakkanen
  • Shaping a Mycenaean cultural landscape at Kalamianos, Greece
  • Daniel J. Pullen
  • Time spent at the Heuneburg, Germany, between 600 and 540 BCE to build all their constructions
  • François Remise.
  • The agricultural hinterland of Aquincum and Brigetio, Hungary. Landscape, rural settlements, towns and their interactions
  • Bence Simon
  • Classical and Hellenistic pottery kilns from Greek rural areas in their natural and human landscape
  • Francesca Tomei
  • Towns in a sea of nomads: territory and trade in Central Somaliland during the Medieval period
  • Jorge de Torres Rodríguez*, Alfredo González-Ruibal, Manuel Antonio Franco Fernández, Candela Martínez Barrio, Pablo Gutiérrez de León Juberías
  • A cross-craft approach to ceramic, glass and iron in the Early Middle Ages. The resources of workshops from southern Belgium
  • Line Van Wersch, Martine van Haperen and Gaspard Pagès
  • Did ancient building contractors work for free? Stone supply in fourth-century BCE Epidauros, Greece
  • Jean Vanden Broeck-Parant
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