Landscape, Community And Colonisation: The North Somerset Levels During the 1st to 2nd Millennia AD - Couverture souple

Rippon, Stephen

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1902771672 ISBN 13 : 9781902771670

Editeur : Council for British Archaeology, 2006

Synopsis

Oxbow says: From 1993, the North Somerset Levels Project sought to investigate the origins and development of this area of reclaimed coastal marshland during the first and second millennia AD. The inter-disciplinary approach taken has added archaeological (survey and excavation) data, palaeoenvironmental evidence, studies of documentary sources, architecture, cartography and field- and place-names, to what was already known about the historic landscape. This report, which publishes the findings of the project, examines local and regional changes and variations in the landscape, focusing on two major phases of exploitation, modification and transformation during the Roman and medieval periods. Factors such as agriculture, grazing, salt production, fishing, draining, flood defence, and the establishment of settlements, roads, commons, field systems, as well as cultural factors, are all discussed, as evidence from the local area is placed within a wider regional context. An excellent study which exemplifies all that is new and exciting in landscape study.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Stephen Rippon is Professor of Landscape Archaeology at the University of Exeter, and President of the Society for Medieval Archaeology. His main research interests cover the Romano-British and medieval landscapes of Britain, and the origins of today’s countryside.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Council for British Archaeology
• Date d'édition: 2006
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1902771672
• ISBN 13: 9781902771670
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 317
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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