ISBN:
9781402098406
,
9781402098390
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (digital)
Series Statement:
SpringerLink
Series Statement:
Bücher
Parallel Title:
Buchausg. u.d.T. Bakels, Cornelia C., 1942 - The Western European loess belt
Keywords:
Social sciences
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Geography
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Agriculture
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Archaeology
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Social Sciences
;
Geography
;
Agriculture
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Archaeology
;
Westeuropa
;
Lössboden
;
Landwirtschaft
;
Geschichte
Abstract:
This book deals with the early history of agriculture in a defined part of Western Europe: the loess belt west of the river Rhine. It is a well-illustrated book that integrates existing and new information starting with the first farmers and ending when food production was no longer the chief source of livelihood for the entire population. The long period, 5300 BC – AD 1000, is divided into six stages. Each stage has its own chapter with subchapters devoted to crops, crop cultivation, livestock and livestock handling, the farm and its yard, and the farm in connection with other farms and the outside world. Every chapter starts with a short outline of the cultural context. The crop plants and animals are described, together with their origin. The subchapters on crop cultivation deal with the operational chain from staking out fields to storage. The introduction of tools such as the plough, the wheel and wagon, and the scythe is discussed. Farm buildings, or at least their groundplans, are presented. The clustering of farms into hamlets or the absence of such aggregations is described. Two chapters deal with the impact of farming on the landscape. The eight chapters on farming and landscape are preceded by an introduction and a chapter on the sources of information. The book ends with a chapter ‘summarizing six millennia of agriculture’, a list of glossary terms and an index. Audience: This book will be of interest to researchers in archaeology, history and agriculture, and to landscape engineers.
Description / Table of Contents:
Preface; Contents; 1 The Loess-Covered Region West of the River Rhine, 5300 BCAD 1000; 1.1 Introduction; 1.2 Loess; 1.3 The Loess Region; 1.4 The Choice of the Period: 5300 BCAD 1000; 1.5 The Framework of this Book; 2 Sources; 2.1 Information About a Distant Past; 2.2 Plants; 2.3 Animals; 2.4 Tools; 2.5 Buildings and Other Structures; 2.6 Land and Countryside; 2.7 Written Sources; 3 The Beginning: 5300 BC4900 BC; 3.1 The First Farmers; 3.2 Crops; 3.3 Crop Cultivation; 3.4 Livestock and Animal Husbandry; 3.5 Farm Buildings and Yards; 3.6 The Farm in Its Setting
Description / Table of Contents:
4 Heirs to the First Farmers: 4900 BC4300 BC4.1 The Successors of the Linearbandkeramik Culture; 4.2 Crops; 4.3 Crop Cultivation; 4.4 Livestock and Animal Husbandry; 4.5 Farmbuildings and Yards; 4.6 The Farm in Its Setting; 5 Innovation and Expansion: 4300 BC2650 BC; 5.1 A New Age; 5.2 Crops; 5.3 Crop Cultivation; 5.4 Livestock and Animal Husbandry; 5.5 Farmbuildings and Yards; 5.6 The Farm in Its Setting; 6 The First Millennia of Agricultural Landscape; 6.1 The Original Vegetation; 6.2 The Impact of the Farming Communities on the Vegetation; 6.3 Erosion
Description / Table of Contents:
7 Towards a More Complex Society: 2650 BC50 BC7.1 The So-Called Metal Ages; 7.2 Crops; 7.3 Crop Cultivation; 7.4 Livestock and Animal Husbandry; 7.5 Farmbuildings and Yards; 7.6 The Farm in Its Setting; 8 Part of the Roman Empire: 50 BCAD 407; 8.1 Roman Rule; 8.2 Crops; 8.3 Crop Cultivation; 8.4 Livestock and Animal Husbandry; 8.5 Farmbuildings and Yards; 8.6 The Farm in Its Setting; 9 The Early Middle Ages: AD 407AD 1000; 9.1 The End of Roman Rule and Thereafter; 9.2 Crops; 9.3 Crop Cultivation; 9.4 Livestock and Animal Husbandry; 9.5 Farmbuildings and Yards; 9.6 The Farm in Its Setting
Description / Table of Contents:
10 The Birth of the Cultural Landscape10.1 The Vanishing of the Forest as the Main Vegetation Type; 10.2 Erosion; 11 Summing Up Six Millennia of Agriculture; Source of Figures and Tables; Figures; Tables; Glossary; Bibliography; Index;
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 281-285) and index
DOI:
10.1007/978-1-4020-9840-6
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