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European agricultural terraces and lynchets: from archaeological theory to heritage management
Terraces are highly productive, culturally distinctive socioecological systems. Although they form part of time/place-specific debates, terraces per se have been neglected – fields on slopes or landscape elements. We argue that this is due to mapping and dating problems, and lack of artefacts/ecofac...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8452142/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34556890 http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00438243.2021.1891963 |
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author | Brown, Antony Walsh, Kevin Fallu, Daniel Cucchiaro, Sara Tarolli, Paolo |
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description | Terraces are highly productive, culturally distinctive socioecological systems. Although they form part of time/place-specific debates, terraces per se have been neglected – fields on slopes or landscape elements. We argue that this is due to mapping and dating problems, and lack of artefacts/ecofacts. However, new techniques can overcome some of these constraints, allowing us to re-engage with theoretical debates around agricultural intensification. Starting from neo-Broserupian propositions, we can engage with the sociopolitical and environmental aspects of terrace emergence, maintenance and abandonment. Non-reductionist avenues include identifying and dating different phases of development within single terrace systems, identifying a full crop-range, and other activities not generally associated with terraces (e.g. metallurgy). The proposition here is that terraces are a multi-facetted investment that includes both intensification and diversification and can occur under a range of social conditions but which constitutes a response to demographic pressure in the face to fluctuating environmental conditions. |
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spelling | pubmed-84521422021-09-21 European agricultural terraces and lynchets: from archaeological theory to heritage management Brown, Antony Walsh, Kevin Fallu, Daniel Cucchiaro, Sara Tarolli, Paolo World Archaeol Articles Terraces are highly productive, culturally distinctive socioecological systems. Although they form part of time/place-specific debates, terraces per se have been neglected – fields on slopes or landscape elements. We argue that this is due to mapping and dating problems, and lack of artefacts/ecofacts. However, new techniques can overcome some of these constraints, allowing us to re-engage with theoretical debates around agricultural intensification. Starting from neo-Broserupian propositions, we can engage with the sociopolitical and environmental aspects of terrace emergence, maintenance and abandonment. Non-reductionist avenues include identifying and dating different phases of development within single terrace systems, identifying a full crop-range, and other activities not generally associated with terraces (e.g. metallurgy). The proposition here is that terraces are a multi-facetted investment that includes both intensification and diversification and can occur under a range of social conditions but which constitutes a response to demographic pressure in the face to fluctuating environmental conditions. Routledge 2021-03-23 /pmc/articles/PMC8452142/ /pubmed/34556890 http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00438243.2021.1891963 Text en © 2021 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) ), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way. |
spellingShingle | Articles Brown, Antony Walsh, Kevin Fallu, Daniel Cucchiaro, Sara Tarolli, Paolo European agricultural terraces and lynchets: from archaeological theory to heritage management |
title | European agricultural terraces and lynchets: from archaeological theory to heritage management |
title_full | European agricultural terraces and lynchets: from archaeological theory to heritage management |
title_fullStr | European agricultural terraces and lynchets: from archaeological theory to heritage management |
title_full_unstemmed | European agricultural terraces and lynchets: from archaeological theory to heritage management |
title_short | European agricultural terraces and lynchets: from archaeological theory to heritage management |
title_sort | european agricultural terraces and lynchets: from archaeological theory to heritage management |
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url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8452142/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34556890 http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00438243.2021.1891963 |
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