The Cultural Landscape: Past, Present and FutureHilary H. Birks The Cultural Landscape - Past, Present and Future considers different aspects of man's intervention with natural vegetation and the landscape resulting from a long equilibrium of co-existence. These landscapes are not stable, and the recent and ever accelerating changes in technology and life-style have increasingly affected many ancient landscapes, as old land-use practices are abandoned and traditions forgotten. The papers in this book describe and trace the development of cultural landscapes in different climatic and biogeographical regions in Europe. Remnants of traditional land-use still remaining are described, particularly from Western Norway, where traditions have lingered because the rugged topography of the region is inimicable to high-technology. Each chapter is by an expert in the field. The topics cover the documentation of present cultural landscapes, their maintenance and restoration, and the history of the development of cultural landscapes from the Stone Age onwards, linking the intensity of landscape utilization with population dynamics and technological attainments. The disciplines involved include vegetation science, vegetation history, ecology, palaeoecology, archaeology, sociology, geography and history. |
Contents
I | 5 |
II | 11 |
III | 31 |
V | 47 |
VI | 53 |
VII | 79 |
VIII | 91 |
IX | 111 |
XXIII | 289 |
XXIV | 301 |
XXV | 311 |
XXVI | 321 |
XXVII | 333 |
XXVIII | 349 |
XXX | 369 |
XXXI | 381 |
X | 123 |
XI | 139 |
XII | 153 |
XIII | 165 |
XIV | 189 |
XV | 209 |
XVI | 229 |
XVII | 241 |
XXI | 255 |
XXII | 267 |
XXXII | 395 |
XXXIII | 409 |
XXXIV | 429 |
XXXV | 445 |
XXXVI | 463 |
XXXVII | 469 |
XXXVIII | 475 |
XXXIX | 483 |
XL | 486 |
Other editions - View all
The Cultural Landscape: Past, Present and Future Hilary H. Birks,H. J. B. Birks,Peter Emil Kaland,Dagfinn Moe No preview available - 2004 |
The Cultural Landscape: Past, Present and Future Hilary H. Birks,H. J. B. Birks,Peter Emil Kaland,Dagfinn Moe No preview available - 1989 |
Common terms and phrases
activity agricultural Alnus Andersen anthropogenic AP influx arable archaeological ASTERACEAE Austad Beden Berglund Betula Birks Bjäresjö Bronze Age Calluna cattle century cereal changes charcoal Chenopodiaceae climate coppice Corylus crops cultivation cultural landscape curve Cyperaceae dates dominated early ecological elm-decline evidence expansion Fagus fields fodder forest Fraxinus Galdane grass grazing Hailuoto Halne Hardangervidda herbs Holmegaard Holocene Hortobágy human impact increase indicators interpretation Iron Age Kittilä Kuusamo Lærdal lake land land-use manure meadows Medieval Mesolithic mire Neolithic nodum nutrients palaeoecological palynological pastures peat percentages period phase Picea Pinus Plantago lanceolata plants Poaceae pollarding Pollen assemblage pollen diagrams pollen types POLLEN ZONES population pratensis prehistoric probably Quercus Rackham Ranunculus recorded regional Rumex Salix sample Secale sediments settlement SHRUBS soil species Subboreal summer farms Szigetköz taxa Tilia trees Ulmus upland values vegetation Vestvågøy woodland woods Ystad zone