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Acknowledgements.. 1 Introduction.. Mediterraneanism.. Frameworks for the assessment of human-environment engagements.. Environmental knowledge and cultural ecologies.. 2 From Geology to Biology: Defining the Mediterranean.. Fundamental geological and biological characteristics.. Basic climatic and biogeographical characteristics.. Tectonics and the creation and destruction of niches.. Hellenistic and Roman catastrophes.. Tectonic legacies.. 3 Sea-Level Change and Coastal Settlement - Human Engagements with Littoral Environments.. Introduction.. Characterising the Mediterranean.. Maritime processes.. Coastal processes.. Examples of Mediterranean coastal change.. Higher-energy events.. Pre- and proto-historic coastal exploitation.. Coastal exploitation: The development of ports and harbours (Bronze Age onwards.. Early ports and harbours.. Classical coasts and harbours.. Controlling permeability.. 4 Rivers and Wetlands.. Studying Mediterranean rivers and wetlands: Research questions and approaches.. Characteristics of Mediterranean rivers.. Springs and karst.. Wetlands.. Alluvial geoarchaeology: People and climate.. Alluvial landscapes and farming in Anatolia and Greece.. Aspects of alluvial archaeology in Italy.. Late proto-historic and classical alluvial and hydrological landscapes.. Urban alluvial geoarchaeology: Glanum, Rome, and Gordion.. Glanum.. Rome.. Gordion.. Environmental knowledge in dynamic alluvial and wetland zones.. Human engagements with Mediterranean wetlands.. Hydromythology.. The Pontine Marshes: Roman 'relationships' with a wetland.. Wetlands and disease.. Discussion: Responses to hydrological variability.. 5 Environmental Change: Degradation and Resilience.. Approaches and research questions.. The phytological context.. The Fall from Eden.. Landscape change around the Mediterranean.. Anthropogenic and climatic impact: Views from around the Mediterranean.. Southern Mediterranean.. The Near East

Anatolia and Greece.. People and environment in Italian landscapes.. People and environment in southern French landscapes.. People and environment in Spanish landscapes.. 6 Working and Managing Mediterranean Environments.. Lifeways in Mediterranean environments.. Clearance, terracing, and the creation of the sustainable Mediterranean landscape.. The role of fire.. Agricultural and productive vegetation.. Woodland and landscape management (Dehesa and other systems.. Environmental change and social geoarchaeology.. The Sainte Victoire: Changing patterns of interaction with environment.. The Roman watermill at Barbegal.. Discussion: The human scale of interaction with past environmental processes.. 7 Islands: Biogeography, Settlement, and Interaction.. Introduction.. Mediterranean islands and island biogeography.. Colonisation of Mediterranean islands.. Settlement, economy, and insularity.. Aspects of insular environmental and cultural change.. Malta.. Smaller islands.. The Balearics.. Discussion: Are islands different?.. 8 Mountain Economies and Environmental Change.. Introduction: Vertical spaces, cyclical time.. Defining mountain landscapes.. Human-landscape engagements across Mediterranean mountains.. Greece and Anatolia.. Italy, France, and Spain (the Apennines, Alps, and Pyrenees.. The Alps.. Southern French Alps.. The Pyrenees.. Patchy porosity: Mediterranean mountains and variable integration.. Conclusion.. 9 Conclusions - The Mediterranean Mosaic: Persistent and Incongruent Environmental Knowledge.. Retrodicting human engagement with the landscape.. Revisiting Mediterranean environmental problems.. Mediterranean landscapes: Past, present, and future.. Bibliography.. Index

This volume presents a comprehensive review of palaeoenvironmental evidence and its incorporation with landscape archaeology from across the Mediterranean. A fundamental aim of this book is to bridge the intellectual and methodological gaps between those with a background in archaeology and ancient history, and those who work in the palaeoenvironmental sciences. The aim of this volume is twofold: first, to provide archaeologists and landscape historians with a comprehensive overview of recent palaeoenvironmental research across the Mediterranean, and second, to consider ways in which this type of research can be integrated with what might be considered "mainstream" or "cultural" archaeology. This volume takes a thematic approach, assessing the ways in which environmental evidence is employed in different landscape types, from coastal zones via rivers and wetlands to islands and mountainous areas. This volume also presents analyses of how people have interacted with soils and vegetation, and revisits the key questions of human culpability in the creation of so-called degraded landscapes in the Mediterranean. It covers chronological periods from the Early Neolithic to the end of the Roman period. Inglés