Titlebook: Landscapes and Societies; Selected Cases I. Peter Martini,Ward Chesworth Book 2011 Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2011 Archaeology/En

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Womb, Belly and Landscape in the AnthropoceneThe poet William Cowper, enraptured by the beauty of the English countryside, wrote “God made the country and man made the town”.

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The Nuragic People: Their Settlements, Economic Activities and Use of the Land, Sardinia, ItalySardinia is the second largest island in the Mediterranean (Fig. 11.1) and is well-known for its Nuragic society, which developed in the Bronze and Early Iron Ages from 1900 to 730 BC (Nuragic Age, Table 11.1).

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Human Responses to Climatically-driven Landscape Change and Resource Scarcity: Learning from the Pas begin to confront anthropogenic climate change resulting principally from the burning of fossil fuels and the resulting emission of greenhouse gases (Raupach et al. 2007; Somerville et al. 2007). While there is widespread agreement among scientists and policy makers that efforts should be made to p

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The Desertification of the Egyptian Sahara during the Holocene (the Last 10,000 years) and Its Influ0 years or so, desertification, punctuated by temporary reversals, has driven people out of what was once a well-watered savannah covering vast areas of the present Sahara into smaller areas fed by rivers and near-surface groundwaters. In Egypt, the result was a relatively large population in a rela

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Human Paleoecology in the Ancient Metal-Smelting and Farming Complex in the Wadi Faynan, SW Jordan, e in a landscape heavily affected by millennia of metal-winning and metal-processing in the Wadi Faynan and its tributaries in southwest Jordan. The Wadi Faynan lies in an ecotonal position on the margins between the warm desertic Wadi ‘Araba and the Jordanian uplands, which are characterized by ste

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Empire and Environment in the Northern Fertile Crescente the very earliest trenches were sunk into the Assyrian capital cities of Nimrud and Nineveh (Fig. 9.1), the implications of the development of territorial empires have not been fully absorbed into the study of human-environment relations. The later territorial empires of the first millennium BC an

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The Interplay between Environment and People from Neolithic to Classical Times in Greece and Albania facing Asia Minor (Anatolia), the southern part of the Balkans, comprised of Greece (here defined to include Attica, Boetia and the Peloponnesus) and Albania, played an important role in the transmission of agriculture practices and civilization to the European continent, a process commonly labelle