The Making of the Cretan LandscapeManchester University Press, 1996 - 237 Seiten This is the first book to help the visitor understand Crete's remarkable landscape, which is just as spectacular as the island's rich archaeological heritage. Crete is a wonderful and dramatic island, a miniature continent with precipitous mountains, a hundred gorges, unique plants, extinct animals and lost civilisations, as well as the characteristic agricultural landscape of olive groves, vines and goats, Jennifer Moody and Oliver Rackham explain how the island's peculiar and extraordinary features, moulded and modified by centuries of human activity, have come together to create the landscape we see today. They also explain the formation and ecology of Crete's beautiful mountains and coastline, and the contemporary threats to the island's fragile natural beauty. |
Inhalt
Placenames | 33 |
Vegetation | 33 |
Terraces fields and enclosures | 96 |
XV | 96 |
Chronology | 96 |
History pseudohistory | 37 |
Unusual places | 47 |
233343 | 54 |
Islets | 61 |
The future | 67 |
53 | 76 |
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
Aegean Akrotiri Peninsula ancient animals Apokorona archaeological Ayios bibliography Bronze Age browsing Byzantine Candia castles cave century chapels Chapter cliffs climate coast coastal coppice corsairs Cretan landscape Crete cretica crops cultivation cypress deciduous deciduous oak Early endemic erosion especially evidence fields Figure Gávdhos goats Gorge Greece Greek grow hamlets Herakleion houses Ierapetra INHABITANTS island islets Khaniá Ky Kissamos Knossós Kouphonísi land Lassíthi Late Minoan limestone Little Ice Age madháres mainland mammals maquis marl medieval Mediterranean middle monasteries mountain-plains Muslim Myrtos names Neolithic olive Omalós peak sanctuaries Petromarula phrygana phyllite pine place-names places Plain plants platey Pleistocene pollen population prickly-oak Psilorítis Rackham rare Raulin records Réthymnon roads rocks Roman Samariá screes settlement sheep shepherds shrubs Siteía slopes soil Sphakiá spring steppe survive terraces timber Turkish Turkish period Turks undershrubs vegetation Venetian period villages walls west Crete White Mountains woodland woods
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 5 - All the fountains of the great deep were broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.
Seite 5 - Crete, which was once one of the most fertile 'and prosperous islands in the Mediterranean, is now one of the rockiest and most barren.
Seite 5 - The passage from this ancestral type to man was easy, and it was probably effected either at the end of the Pliocene or the beginning of the Pleistocene.
Seite 5 - A., 1980, Dwarf Deer and Other Late Pleistocene Fauna of the Simonelli Cave in Crete, Rome, Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei.
Seite 5 - D. (1989). Tracking the extinct pygmy hippopotamus of Cyprus. Field Museum of Natural History Bulletin 60, 22-29.
Seite 5 - Climate of the eastern Mediterranean and Near East. In: JL Bintliff & W. van Zeist (eds.) Palaeoclimates, Palaeoenvironments and Human Communities in the Eastern Mediterranean Region in Later Prehistory.BAR International Series, 133, pp.3-37.
Seite 5 - Crete and the Aegean Islands: effects of changing climate on the environment', directed by AT Grove of Cambridge University and NS Margaris of the University of the Aegean.
Seite 5 - Scholars play up the landscape of the past and play down the landscape of the present: they write about ancient forests where the original text mentioned 2 'scrub
Seite 5 - Paleozoogeography of the Pleistocene Mammals from the Aegean. In A. Strid (ed.). Evolution in the Aegean. Opera Botanica, 30, 60-70 (1971).
Seite 32 - Preliminary report on the animal bones' in JN Coldstream (ed.), Knossos: the Stinctuan/ of Demeter, BSA supplement, 8, 1 77-9.
Verweise auf dieses Buch
The Nature of Mediterranean Europe: An Ecological History Alfred Thomas Grove,Oliver Rackham Keine Leseprobe verfügbar - 2003 |