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Summer Farms: Seasonal Exploitation of the Uplands from Prehistory to the Present (Sheffield Archaeological Monographs)
John Collis
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Description for Summer Farms: Seasonal Exploitation of the Uplands from Prehistory to the Present (Sheffield Archaeological Monographs)
Hardcover. This volume provides case studies of summer farms, as well as brief summaries of other projects in Europe, extending from the Black Sea in the east to northern Spain and Iceland in the west, though with a concentration on the Alpine area. Editor(s): Collis, John; Pearce, Mark; Nicolis, Franco. Series: Sheffield Archaeological Monographs. Num Pages: 258 pages, 172 colour and black and whilte figures. BIC Classification: 1D; HDL; TV. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 276 x 203. Weight in Grams: 277.
Summer farms occur throughout the world where there are rich pastures that can only be utilised for part of the year, mainly because they are under snow and ice during the winter. In Europe transhumance is often a major event when the cattle and other livestock leave their home villages and move up into the mountains, and likewise on their return. The best known sites in Europe are perhaps those found in the Alpine areas, but they occur everywhere where there are suitable highland areas to exploit. Traditionally they have been the subject of the studies of ethnographers ... Read more
Summer farms occur throughout the world where there are rich pastures that can only be utilised for part of the year, mainly because they are under snow and ice during the winter. In Europe transhumance is often a major event when the cattle and other livestock leave their home villages and move up into the mountains, and likewise on their return. The best known sites in Europe are perhaps those found in the Alpine areas, but they occur everywhere where there are suitable highland areas to exploit. Traditionally they have been the subject of the studies of ethnographers ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Equinox Publishing
Condition
New
Series
Sheffield Archaeological Monographs
Number of Pages
262
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780906090558
SKU
V9780906090558
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About John Collis
John Collis is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Archaeology, University of Sheffield.Mark Pearce is Professor of Mediterranean Prehistory, University of Nottingham.Franco Nicolis is Director of the Office of Archaeological Heritage in Trentino, northern Italy.
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