Overview
- Presents unique European overview of current fieldsystem research
- Focuses on social implications of land allotment
- Offers rich and varied data-set of recently investigated European field systems
Part of the book series: Themes in Contemporary Archaeology (TCA)
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Keywords
- Agricultural landscapes
- Celtic fields
- Changing fieldscapes of Loughcrew
- Formation, use and chronology of Celtic fields
- Fields and farming-systems in Bronze Age Scotland
- Land division, livestock and people in prehistoric Somerset
- Long-term landscape development
- Neolithic and Bronze Age Field Systems of Shetland
- Palaeoecology
- Prehistoric cultural landscapes
- Prehistoric cultural landscape in the Sachsenwald Forest
- Prehistoric field systems
- Remains of a Late Bronze Age field systems in Greece
- Rhythm and land appropriation during the Bronze Age in France
- Social implications of Europe’s early land allotment
- Reconstructing enclosed and parcelled out landscapes in Denmark
- Sustainable agriculture
- Terrace agriculture
- Terraced Fields, Farming, and Farmers in Greece
- Terraced crop fields in the Eastern Pyrenean mountains
About this book
Themes addressed in this book include (a) mapping and understanding field system morphologies at various scales, (b) the extraction of information on social processes from field system morphologies, (c) the relations between field systems and cultural and natural features of their environment, (d) time-depths and temporalities of usage, and (e) specifics of the underlying agricultural systems, with special attention to matters of continuity and resilience and relation to changing practices. The case-studies explore how to best approach such landscapes with traditional and novel methodologies and targeted research in order to enhance our knowledge further. The volume offers inspiration and guidance for the heritage management of fieldscape heritage – not solely for future scholarly research but foremost to stimulate strategic guidance to frame and support improved protection of evidently vulnerable resources for Europe’s future. This volume is of interest to landscape archaeologists.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Robert Johnston is a Senior Lecturer in Landscape Archaeology at the University of Sheffield. He recently published 'Bronze Age Worlds' (2021), in which he considers the ways that kin relations were fundamental in forming the social life and landscapes of Bronze Age Britain and Ireland. He is currently researching landscape transformations in the upland and coastal landscapes of western Britain.
Mette Løvschal is an Associate Professor at Aarhus University’s Department of Archaeology and Heritage Studies and Moesgaard Museum. She is the Principal Investigator on the ERC project ‘Anthropogenic Heathlands: The Social Organization of Super-Resilient Past Human Ecosystems’ (ANTHEA) 2020–2025’. Her research engages with a range of archaeological, social anthropological and philosophical debates pertaining to spatial ontology and deep time trajectories, land tenure changes, disturbance ecologies, spatial perception, and the becoming of biosocial entanglements.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Europe's Early Fieldscapes
Book Subtitle: Archaeologies of Prehistoric Land Allotment
Editors: Stijn Arnoldussen, Robert Johnston, Mette Løvschal
Series Title: Themes in Contemporary Archaeology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-71652-3
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: History, History (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-71651-6Published: 06 October 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-71654-7Published: 06 October 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-71652-3Published: 05 October 2021
Series ISSN: 2730-7441
Series E-ISSN: 2730-745X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 229
Number of Illustrations: 55 b/w illustrations, 52 illustrations in colour
Topics: Archaeology, Geography, general, Agriculture