Aegean Strategies : Studies of Culture and Enviroment on the European Fringe

by: Kardulias, P.N. Shutes, M.T.

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Aegean strategies : studies of culture and environment on the European fringe
Authors:P. Nick Kardulias, Mark T. Shutes

Series:
Greek studies

1. Introduction 1
P. Nick Kardulias and Mark T. Shutes

I. The Earth Sciences Approach
2. A 21st Century Approach to the Reconnaissance and
Reconstruction of Archaeological Landscapes 9
Eberhard Zangger, Horst Leiermann,
Wolfgang Noack, and Falko Kuhnke

3. Five Thousand Years of Land Use and Abuse in the
Southern Argolid, Greece 33
Tjeerd H. van Andel, Curtis N. Runnels, and Kevin 0. Pope

II. The Role of Archaeology:Understanding Past Human Interaction with
the Environment
4. The Cretan Environment: Abused or Just Misunderstood? 61
Jennifer A. Moody

5. Landscape Archaeology of Medieval and Pre-Modem
Greece: The Case of Nemea 79
Effie F. Athanassopoulos

6. Reconstructing Medieval Site Locations in the Korinthia,
Greece 107
P. Nick Kardulias

III. Ethnographic Studies: Landscapes and Moder Culture
7. Greek Sheep, Albanian Shepherds: Hidden Economies
in the European Community 123
Claudia Chang

8. Yours, Mine and Ours: Private and Public Pasture
in Greece 141
Harold A. Koster

9. A "Waste" of Resources: Aspects of Landscape
Exploitation in Lowland Greek Agriculture 187
Hamish Forbes

10. Wild Herbs in the Marketplace: Gathering in Response
to Market Demand 215
Mari H. Clark

11. Working Things Out: On Examining the Relationships
Between Agricultural Practice and Social Rules in Ancient
Korinthos 237
Mark T Shutes

12. Finding Meaning in Modifications of the Environment:
the Fields and Orchards of Mani 259
Peter S. Alien

13. Agrarian Ecology in the Greek Islands: Time Stress,
Scale and Risk 271
Paul Halstead and Glynis Jones

IV. Overview
14. Common Ground and Common Good: Four-Field
Anthropology along the Margins of Europe 295
Susan Parman

15. Final Remarks 301
Mark T. Shutes and P. Nick Kardulias

Index 305

About the Contributors 311

xx, 313 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
 

With a long, detailed historical record, a large corpus of archaeological data, and, more recently, a number of sophisticated analyses of current and previous environmental conditions, the Aegean region of the eastern Mediterranean offers a unique setting to explore the evolution of a landscape through time. As expanding world markets continue to encroach upon even the most remote and delicate ecological zones, anthropologists across all sub-disciplines are beginning to find common theoretical and methodological ground within their own discipline and with other ecologically oriented sciences. This volume examines the value of such collaborative research by bringing together archaeologists, cultural anthropologists, ethnoarchaeologists, and ecologists to discuss environmentally related issues that affect the European fringe, with an emphasis on the Aegean region. The contributors bring to light the subtleties involved in understanding the interactive relationship between humans and their environment over time. Students and scholars in a variety of disciplines, including anthropology, ecology, classics, and history, will find this book to be a valuable and original investigation of a dynamic and complex region.

Aegean Strategies : Studies of Culture and Enviroment on the European Fringe

by: Kardulias, P.N. Shutes, M.T.

• ISBN-13: 9780847686575 / 978-0-8476-8657-5
• ISBN-03: 0847686574 / 0-8476-8657-4
• Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham, Maryland, 1997

Price: 57,00 EURO

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