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Histoire des paysages méditerranéens terrassés: aménagements et agriculture
Romana Harfouche
The aim of this work is to study the issue of agriculture on hillsides through the use of terraces, according to a multidisciplinary and multiscalar approach (in time and space). Mediterranean hillsides are frequently covered with terraces. These are generally dedicated to agriculture, whatever the sociocultural contexts are. All Mediterranean regions are subject to the same regime of rainfall, often violent and very localized in time. Therefore, farmers face the problem of soil erosion and management of their water resources. Questions concerning the causes, techniques and chronology of these constructions are considered. Recent researches carried out in several Mediterranean countries underline the part played by terracing in the shaping of Mediterranean landscapes from the Neolithic period to the present time, and its importance among ancient societies. These researches show that the emergence of the agricultural terracing technique originated in not one but several locations, that this technique was put into practice at least from as early as the Bronze age in the western as well as in the eastern Mediterranean, and that the variety of techniques employed are not mainly connected to chrono-cultural factors but are first bound to environmental conditions. The author selects for her researches areas from Spain, France, Italy, Greece, the Near East and North Africa.
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Front Cover
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Title Page
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Copyright
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SOMMAIRE
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REMERCIEMENTS
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AVANT-PROPOS
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ENGLISH ABSTRACT
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INTRODUCTION
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PREMIÈRE PARTIE Les paysages agraires méditerranéens: concepts, problématique et méthodes d’analyse
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CHAPITRE 1 L’UNITÉ ET LA PLURALITÉ DES PAYSAGES MÉDITERRANÉENS
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CHAPITRE 2 COMMENT LIRE LES PAYSAGES TERRASSÉS?
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CHAPITRE 3 FAIRE PARLER LES TEXTES ET LES IMAGES
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DEUXIÈME PARTIE La régulation de la topographie ou construire pour cultiver, d’une rive à l’autre
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CHAPITRE 1 LA MÉDITERRANÉE NORD-OCCIDENTALE
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CHAPITRE 2 LA MÉDITERRANÉE ORIENTALE
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CHAPITRE 3 L’AFRIQUE DU NORD
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TROISIÈME PARTIE Quels agrosystèmes pour quelles sociétés?
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CHAPITRE 1 EBAUCHE D’UNE ÉVOLUTION À L’ÉCHELLE DU BASSIN MÉDITERRANÉEN
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CHAPITRE 2 TERRASSES ET TRANSMISSION DES SAVOIRS
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CHAPITRE 3 QUELLES TECHNIQUES? À QUELLES FINS?
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CONCLUSION
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BIBLIOGRAPHIE
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TABLE DES FIGURES
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Published: 2007
Publisher: BAR Publishing
- 9781407331034 (ebook)
- 9781407300481 (paperback)
BAR Number: S1634
- Mediterranean
- Neolithic / Chalcolithic
- Archaeobotany / Environment and Climate
- Greece, Aegean, Crete and Black Sea
- Agriculture / Farming / Husbandry / Land-use / Irrigation
- Architecture / Domestic and Urban Buildings and Space / Urbanism
- Multiperiod
- Ethnoarchaeology / Anthropology
- Africa
- Landscape Archaeology
- Bronze Age and Iron Age
- Classical and Hellenistic
- Migration Period, Early Medieval and Medieval
- Roman