Europe's Early Fieldscapes : Archaeologies of Prehistoric Land Allotment, Har...

by Robert Johnston

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Europe's Early Fieldscapes : Archaeologies of Prehistoric Land Allotment, Hardcover by Arnoldussen, Stijn (EDT); Johnston, Robert (EDT); Løvschal, Mette (EDT), ISBN 3030716511, ISBN-13 9783030716516, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US 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 cultivation, and use of the 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. Th 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

• Publisher: Springer International Publishing A&G
• Year: 2021
• Binding: Hardcover
• ISBN: 9783030716516
• Condition: Fine

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