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Informationen zum Autor Kevin Walsh is senior lecturer in the Department of Archaeology at the University of York. He has completed research in the Southern French Alps, the Roman mill at Barbegal near the Camargue, the Sainte Victoire Mountain near Aix-en-Provence, and at Stymphalos in the northern Peloponnese. He is co-editor of two books: Interpretation of Sites and Material Culture from Mid-High Altitude Mountain Environments, and Mediterranean Landscape Archaeology 2: Environmental Reconstruction in Mediterranean Landscape Archaeology. Klappentext Reviews the palaeoenvironmental evidence and its incorporation with landscape archaeology across the Mediterranean, from the Early Neolithic to the end of the Roman period. Zusammenfassung This volume is designed to synthesise and assess the ways in which evidence relating to changes in the natural environment in the Mediterranean can be integrated with cultural archaeological research. It covers chronological periods from the Early Neolithic to the end of the Roman period. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction; 2. From geology to biology: defining the Mediterranean; 3. Sea level change and coastal settlement: human engagements with littoral environments; 4. Rivers and wetlands; 5. Environmental change: degradation and resilience; 6. Working and managing Mediterranean environments; 7. Islands: biogeography, settlement, and interaction; 8. Mountain economies and environmental change; 9. Conclusions: the Mediterranean mosaic: persistent and incongruent environmental knowledge.
