Agricultural and pastoral landscapes in pre-industrial society : : choices, stability and change / / edited by Felix Retamero, Inge Schjellerup and Althea Davies.

• TeilnehmendeR: Retamero, Felix,; Schjellerup, Inge,; Davies, Althea,
• Place / Publishing House: Oxford ;, Philadelphia : : Oxbow Books,, 2016.
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Series: Early agricultural remnants and technical heritage (EARTH): 8.000 years of resilience and innovation ; volume 3
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (499 pages) :; illustrations (some color)

Table of 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, Felix Retamero -- The Transformation Of Riversides : The Example of the Alluvial Valleys of Languedoc and Lower Rhone 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 Dreslerova -- Stability and Changes in the Agricultural Use of Limestone Soils in Northern Estonia / Valter Lang -- Prehistoric Agriculture and the Ancient Fields of Mikkeli Orijarvi, 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 Mller -- Coping with Gravity : The Case of Mas l'Agusti (Montseny Mountains, Catalonia, Spain, ca. 15th-18th centuries) / Felix 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) / Eugenia 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 Provencal Transhumant Shepherd / Thomas K. Schippers.