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This volume provides a broad survey of recent advances in geoarchaeology with particular attention to environmental change. The fourteen chapters include methodologically innovative research, case studies valuable for teaching, and the use of geological techniques to answer arch…
"This volume examines landscapes that have been cleared of inhabitants - for economic, environmental, or socio-political reasons, by choice or by force - and the social impacts of clearance on their populations. Using cases from five continents, and ranging from prehistoric, thr…
This volume examines ancient landscapes that have been cleared of inhabitants and the social impacts of clearance on their populations.
European rural landscapes as we experience them today are the result of ongoing processes and interactions between nature and society. These are changing fast: the future landscapes will be different from those we know currently. Written for academics, policy-makers and practiti…
"The Liwu River runs a short course; its channel head at the water divide in Taiwan's Central Range is a mere 35 km from its outflow into the Pacific Ocean. But in those short 35 km, the Liwu has carved one of the world's geographic wonders: the spectacular Taroko Gorge with mar…
Landscapes and societies in medieval Europe east of the Elbe: interactions between environmental settings and c…
by Pontifical Institute of Medieval Studies, Kleingartner, Sunhild, Conference "Landscapes and Societies in Ancient and Medieval Europe East of the Elbe, Toronto)
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What do we mean when we say that cities have altered humanity's interaction with nature? The more people are living in cities, the more nature is said to be "urbanizing": turned into a resource, mobilized over long distances, controlled, transformed and then striking back with a…
Historians and scholars of Ethiopia have long struggled to understand the "Ethiopian Paradox": that is, how could Africa's most productive food production system, which sustained an extraordinary imperial culture over two millennia, also be home to periodic, gut-wrenching famine…
