Mediterranean ValleyIntegrating 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. |
Contents
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methodologies | 40 |
4 The natural landscape and its evolution | 62 |
5 Early prehistoric settlement | 84 |
6 The first agricultural communities | 98 |
7 The settlement expansion of the 2nd millennium bc | 132 |
8 Iron age chiefdoms c1000500 BC | 159 |
9 Pentri Frentani and the beginnings of urbanization c 50080 BC | 181 |
10 Roman towns and territories c 80 BCAD 600 | 213 |
11 The evolution of hilltop villages AD 6001500 | 254 |
12 Feudalism and the Southern Question AD 1500 to the present | 286 |
the evolution of a Mediterranean landscape | 308 |
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3rd century Abruzzo Adriatic agricultural animal Apennine Apulia archaeological survey artefacts assemblages Benedittis Biferno valley Boiano Boiano basin bone Bovianum British School bronze age bronze age settlement Campania Campobasso Campochiaro Capini Casacalenda cemetery centres century BC Chapter classical Colle Daunian deposits Etruria evidence excavations farming farmstead flakes flint Fonte Maggio Graeme Barker gravels Guglionesi Hodges iron age Italian Italy kilometres land landscape Larino Larinum late later limestone lithic lower Biferno lower valley lowlands major Maria in Civita Masseria Mammarella material Matese Matrice Mediterranean Mezzogiorno middle valley millennium bc Molise Monte Maulo Monte Vairano neolithic neolithic settlements peasants peninsula Pentri phase pits ploughing population Portocannone probably production Regina region river rural Saepinum Samnite Samnium sample sanctuary Santa Maria School at Rome sea level sediments sherds Sinarca soil southern Italy Sparanise surface Termoli town transhumance upper palaeolithic upper valley valley floor villages Whitehouse zone