Based on a major research programme, and originally published in 1985, this book looked to provide an economic foundation for reinterpreting the Neolithic-Bronze Age sequence of South-east Spain in terms of emergent social complexity. The cultural evolution of the area had already been considered in terms of influence from the eastern Mediterranean but this book uses site catchment analysis to give an economic baseline for all thirty-five of the better-known prehistoric settlements of the region. Site catchment analysis assumes that people minimised transport costs in production and that ancient and modern resource spaces correspond systematically. This research therefore studied modern land use and combined it with evidence from historical, archaeological and geomorphological investigation. The book shows the increasing social complexity evident in the archaeological record emerging as a result of progressive intensification of agricultural technique. Offering a complete coherent evolutionary model for the archaeological sequence of the region’s prehistory, this book is a worthy in-depth study for prehistorians, geographers and anyone interested in the history of the western Mediterranean.

Land-Use and Prehistory in South-East Spain (London Research Ser Ingeography; No. 8)

History

Thornes, John B.

Gilman, Antonio

Europe

Routledge

Environmental Issues in the Mediterranean (Routledge Studies in Physical Geography and Environment)

The Mediterranean has been subject to changing human settlement and land use patterns for millennia, and has a history of human exploitation in an inherently unstable landscape. Environmental Issues in the Mediterranean reviews both physical and social aspects of this region, in relation to its environment.Ideal for students who are studying a range of environmental issues, but want to see them linked within one regional context. The book begins with an introduction to the Mediterranean region, its history, physical and human geography and its environmental problems. It then goes on to examine:* The Dynamic Environment - climate variables and fluctuations, vegetation, the hydrological cycle of the basin and its watershed, processes of erosion, fire and the Mediterranean Sea*The Human Impact on the Environment - prehistoric and historic land use, traditional agriculture, rural and urban settlement and use of mineral resources* The Mediterranean Environment Under Increasing Pressure - the present human landscape, changes in agriculture in the 20th century, the impact of depopulation, pollution, water resources, desertification and potential climatic change.It then concludes with a discussion of the region's on-going environmental issues of water resources, land degradation, agricultural intensification and tourism, and considers how these can be approached using management techniques and national and regional policies.

Environmental Issues in the Mediterranean: Processes and Perspectives from the Past and Present (Routledge Studies in Physical Geography and Environment)

Politics & Social Sciences

WAINWRIGHT, JOHN

Social Sciences

Physical description: xvi, 208p : ill, maps ; 24 cm. Notes: Bibliography: p.186-199. Includes index. Subjects: Geomorphology - Methodology. Geological time.

Geomorphology and time (The Field of geography)

Science & Math

Earth Sciences

METHUEN

From the jacket flap: "Time is a central feature of geomorphological research, and is used in this book to provide a conceptual framework within which to consider and compare old and new approaches to the field of geomorphology. The emphasis is on providing not merely a manual of current research but an introduction to isolate ideas and concepts, stimulate critical discussion and examine some of the problems that are involved in dealing with data. "The authors discuss the main trends in research in the last fifty years and compare earlier qualitative methodological approaches with the process and field measurement techniques used mainly in the 1960s and with the significant developments that have taken place recently in analytical model-building. The scientific measurement of time is examined and part of the book deals with mathematical, deterministic and stochastic model-building to introduce the reader to recent conceptual advances and provide a basis for full discussion of factors relating to time in geomorphology. "J. B. Thornes is Lecturer in Geography at the London School of Economics and D. Brunsden is Reader in Geography at King's College London."

Geomorphology and Time

John Wiley&Sons

Environmental Issues in the Mediterranean: Processes and Perspectives from the Past and Present

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