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Archaeology of Mountain Landscapes

Interdisciplinary Research Strategies of Agro-Pastoralism in Upland Regions
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Language: English
Published/Copyright: 2023

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Explores mountain regions as cultural landscapes that have been shaped by long-term human-environment interactions.

Mountains contain a rich and diverse set of remnants left by human societies. They have been inhabited since prehistory and have been transformed by human activity during prehistorical and historical times, and that history defines mountain landscapes as we know them today. Archaeology of Mountain Landscapes contains twenty contributions by forty-one specialists currently researching mountain areas in the Americas, Asia, and Europe. The different case studies address the subject diachronically, ranging from prehistory to modern times, and employ a variety of methodological strategies, including archaeological surveys and excavation, paleoenvironmental studies, and historical and ethnographical research.

This volume demonstrates how multidisciplinary archaeological fieldwork is radically changing our vision of mountain landscapes. Viewing mountain landscapes as archaeological documents contributes to our understanding of the history of mountain environments and offers new archaeological datasets to use in the interpretation of human societies. Taken together, the essays collected here offer a comprehensive view of current research and suggest new directions for future study.

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Contributor: Arnau Garcia-Molsosa Arnau Garcia-Molsosa is a Researcher at the Catalan Institute of Classical Archaeology in Spain.

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    Mountain Landscapes

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    Arnau Garcia-Molsosa
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    Steps Lost

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    Felipe Criado-Boado
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    Toward an Anthropology of Sacred Mountains

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    Phillips Stevens Jr.
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    An Integrated Approach to the Archaeology of a Sacred Mountain

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    Cecilia Dal Zovo
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    The Mountainscape of the Peak Sanctuary at Leska on Kythera

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    Mercourios Georgiadis
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    Exploring Seasonal Transhumance of Hunter-Gatherers and Neolithic Pastoralists in Poland’s High Tatras and Foothill Lowlands

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    Robert H. Brunswig and Pawel Valde-Nowak
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    The Onset of Alpine Pastoral Systems in the Eastern Alps

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    Klaus D. Oeggl, Daniela Festi and Andreas Putzer
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    Central Alpine Environments as Mountain Cultural Landscapes from Prehistory to Contemporary Past

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    Franco Nicolis
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    Mountain Archaeology of the Bronze Age Caucasus

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    Sabine Reinhold, Andrey B. Belinskiy and Dmitrij S. Korobov
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    Landscape Archaeology in Eastern Pyrenees High Mountain Areas (Segre and Ter Valleys, Northeast Iberian Peninsula)

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    Josep M. Palet, Hèctor A. Orengo, Arnau Garcia-Molsosa, Tania Polonio, Ana Ejarque, Yannick Miras and Santiago Riera
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    Southern Norway’s Mountain Landscapes

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    Christopher Prescott and Lene Melheim
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    Comparison between Medieval and Modern Landscape

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    Emilie Gauthier
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    Neolithic Penetration of the European Mid-Mountains

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    Pawel Valde-Nowak
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    Addressing the Complexity of the Paleoenvironmental Impact of Prehistoric Settlement and Protohistoric Urbanism in the Auvergne Mountains (Massif Central, France)

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    Yannick Miras, Michela Mariani, Florian Couderc, Marlène Lavrieux and Paul M. Ledger
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    Holocene Anthropization of Mid-elevation Landscapes around Pic d’Orhy, Western Pyrenees

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    Michael R. Coughlan, David S. Leigh, Ted L. Gragson and Mélanie Le Couédic
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    Highlands and Lowlands—Different Landscapes, Different Archaeologies?

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    Ralf Vandam, Eva Kaptijn, Patrick T. Willett and Jeroen Poblome
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    Developing a Systematic Approach to the Archaeological Study of Mountain Landscapes

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    Martijn van Leusen, Wieke de Neef and Jan Sevink
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    Agropastoralism in a Dispersed Village, Mountain Economy

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    Michael L. Galaty
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    The Inka Landscape of Cusco and the Watanay Valley

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    José Alejandro Beltrán-Caballero and Ricardo Mar
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    On the Supposed Marginality of Mountain Areas

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    Hèctor A. Orengo
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    Contributors

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    Index

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March 4, 2024
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9781438489896
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434
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https://doi.org/10.1515/9781438489896
eBook ISBN: 9781438489896
Keywords for this book
Anthropology and Archaeology : Anthropology; Anthropology and Archaeology : Archaeology
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For an expert adult audience, including professional development and academic research
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