Mediterranean Islands, Fragile Communities and Persistent Landscapes - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Mediterranean Islands, Fragile Communities and Persistent Landscapes write by Andrew Bevan. This book was released on 2013-05-31. Mediterranean Islands, Fragile Communities and Persistent Landscapes available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Mediterranean landscape ecology, island cultures and long-term human history have all emerged as major research agendas over the past half-century, engaging large swathes of the social and natural sciences. This book brings these traditions together in considering Antikythera, a tiny island perched on the edge of the Aegean and Ionian seas, over the full course of its human history. Small islands are particularly interesting because their human, plant and animal populations often experience abrupt demographic changes, including periods of near-complete abandonment and recolonization, and Antikythera proves to be one of the best-documented examples of these shifts over time. Small islands also play eccentric but revealing roles in wider social, economic and political networks, serving as places for refugees, hunters, modern eco-tourists, political exiles, hermits and pirates. Antikythera is a rare case of an island that has been investigated in its entirety from several systematic fieldwork and disciplinary perspectives, not least of which is an intensive archaeological survey. The authors use the resulting evidence to offer a unique vantage on settlement and land use histories.
Mediterranean Islands, Fragile Communities and Persistent Landscapes
Mediterranean Islands, Fragile Communities and Persistent Landscapes - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Mediterranean Islands, Fragile Communities and Persistent Landscapes write by Andrew Bevan. This book was released on 2013-05-31. Mediterranean Islands, Fragile Communities and Persistent Landscapes available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Explores the human ecology and history of Antikythera over the full course of its approximately seven-thousand-year history of human activity.
Mediterranean Island Landscapes
Mediterranean Island Landscapes - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Mediterranean Island Landscapes write by Ioannis N. Vogiatzakis. This book was released on 2008-02-26. Mediterranean Island Landscapes available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Mediterranean islands exhibit many similarities in their biotic ecological, physical and environmental characteristics. There are also many differences in terms of their human colonization and current anthropogenic pressures. This book addresses in three sections these characteristics and examines the major environmental changes that the islands experienced during the Quaternary period. The first section provides details on natural and cultural factors which have shaped island landscapes. It describes the environmental and cultural changes of the Holocene and their effects on biota, as well as on the current human pressures that are now threats to the sustainability of the island communities. The second section focuses on the landscapes of the largest islands namely Sicily, Sardinia, Corsica, Cyprus, Crete, Malta and the Balearics. Each island chapter includes a special topic reflecting a particular characteristic of the island. Part three presents strategies for action towards sustainability in Mediterranean islands and concludes with a comparison between the largest islands. Despite several published books on Mediterranean ecosystems/landscapes there is no existing book dealing with Mediterranean islands in a collective manner. Students, researchers and university lecturers in environmental science, geography, biology and ecology will find this work invaluable as a cross-disciplinary text while planners and politicians will welcome the succinct summaries as background material to planning decisions.
The Archaeology of Mediterranean Landscapes
The Archaeology of Mediterranean Landscapes - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Archaeology of Mediterranean Landscapes write by Kevin Walsh. This book was released on 2014. The Archaeology of Mediterranean Landscapes available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Reviews the palaeoenvironmental evidence and its incorporation with landscape archaeology across the Mediterranean, from the Early Neolithic to the end of the Roman period.
Insularity and identity in the Roman Mediterranean
Insularity and identity in the Roman Mediterranean - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Insularity and identity in the Roman Mediterranean write by Anna Kouremenos. This book was released on 2017-12-31. Insularity and identity in the Roman Mediterranean available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Insularity – the state or condition of being an island – has played a key role in shaping the identities of populations inhabiting islands of the Mediterranean. As entities surrounded by water and usually possessing different landscapes and ecosystems from those of the mainland, islands allow for the potential to study both the land and the sea. Archaeologically, they have the potential to reveal distinct identities shaped by such forces as invasion, imperialism, colonialism, and connectivity. The theme of insularity and identity in the Roman period has not been the subject of a book length study but has been prevalent in scholarship dealing with the prehistoric periods. The papers in this book explore the concepts of insularity and identity in the Roman period by addressing some of the following questions: what does it mean to be an island? How has insularity shaped ethnic, cultural, and social identity in the Mediterranean during the Roman period? How were islands connected to the mainland and other islands? Did insularity produce isolation or did the populations of Mediterranean islands integrate easily into a common ‘Roman’ culture? How has maritime interaction shaped the economy and culture of specific islands? Can we argue for distinct ‘island identities’ during the Roman period? The twelve papers presented here each deal with specific islands or island groups, thus allowing for an integrated view of Mediterranean insularity and identity.
