Summer Farms

Seasonal Exploitation of the Uplands from Prehistory to the Present
1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-0-906090-55-8
Verlag: Equinox Publishing Ltd

Buch, Englisch, Band 16, 262 Seiten, Format (B × H): 208 mm x 282 mm, Gewicht: 1153 g

Reihe: Sheffield Archaeological Monographs

Summer farms occur throughout the world where there are rich pastures that can only be utilised for part of the year, mainly because they are under snow and ice during the winter. In Europe transhumance is often a major event when the cattle and other livestock leave their home villages and move up into the mountains, and likewise on their return. The best known sites in Europe are perhaps those found in the Alpine areas, but they occur everywhere where there are suitable highland areas to exploit. Traditionally they have been the subject of the studies of ethnographers and anthropologists, especially in the second half of the 20th century when technological and economic changes led to the gradual abandonment of the farms and to other ways of exploiting the highlands. The last of these farmers are gradually disappearing and with them the oral records and memories. Now it is archaeologists who are leading the recording of this material and also looking at the history of such farming from prehistory and from the Bronze Age with the rise in importance of 'Secondary Products' such as cheese which could be stored for use over winter.Much of the evidence can only be gathered by surface survey and by excavation, though in some cases there are good written sources which have yet to be fully exploited. This volume provides case studies, as well as brief summaries of other projects in Europe, extending from the Black Sea in the east to northern Spain and Iceland in the west, though with a concentration on the Alpine area. One thing that emerges is the very varied nature of these sites in terms of their chronology, who went to the farms, the distances travelled, and the other activities associated with transhumance such as mining. In some cases the products were primarily for the subsistence of the agricultural population, but in other cases they were traded and could produce a large amount of profit. This is the first overview of these sites in Europe written from an archaeological point of view.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Collis, John R.

Collis, John

Nicolis, Franco

Pearce, Mark

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Umweltgeschichte & Umweltarchäologie
• Naturwissenschaften Agrarwissenschaften Agrarwissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1: Summer Farms: An IntroductionJohn Collis2: Pastoral Exploitation of the Caspian and Don Steppes and the North Caucasus during the Bronze Age: Seasonality and Isotopes N.I. Shishlina, Russian State Historical Museum, and Y.O. Larionova, Russian Academy of Sciences3: 'Salas': Summer Farming and Transhumance in the Czech Republic from a (Pre)historic and Environmental PerspectiveDagmar Dreslerova, Czech Academy of Sciences4: Hard Cheese: Upland Pastoralism in the Italian Bronze and Iron AgesMark Pearce, University of Nottingham5: Shepherds and Miners through Time in the Veneto Highlands: Ethnoarchaeology and ArchaeologyMara Migliavacca, University of Padua 6: Seasonal Settlements and Husbandry Resources in the Ligurian Apennines (17th-20th centuries)Anna Maria Stagno, University of Genoa/University of the Basque Country7: The 'Invisible' Shepherd and the 'Visible' Dairyman: Ethnoarchaeology of Alpine Pastoral Sites in the Val di Fiemme (Eastern Italian Alps)Francesco Carrer, University of York8: Going up the Mountain! Exploitation of the Trentino Highlands as Summer Farms during the Bronze Age: The Dosso Rotondo Site at Storo (Northern Italy)Franco Nicolis, Elisabetta Mottes, Provincia autonoma di Trento, Michele Bassetti, Cora Societa Archeologica, Elisabetta Castiglioni, Musei Civici di Como, Mauro Rottoli, Musei Civici di Como and Sara Ziggiotti9: Pastoral Land Use and Climate between the 17th and 19th Century in the Italian Southern Alps (Pasubio Massif, Trento): A Preliminary ReportMarco Avanzini and Isabella Salvador, Museo delle Scienze, Trento10: Alpine Huts, Livestock and Cheese in the Oberhasli Region (Switzerland): Medieval and Early Modern Building Remains and their Historical ContextBrigitte Andres, Independent Scholar11: Driving Forces and Variability in the Exploitation of a High-altitude Landscape from the Neolithic to Medieval Periods in the Southern French AlpsKevin Walsh, University of York, and Florence Mocci, Aix-Marseille Universite12: An Archaeological Approach to the Branas: Summer Farms in the Pastures of the Cantabrian Mountains (Northern Spain)David Gonzalez Alvarez, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Margarita Fernandez Mier, Universidad de Leon, and Pablo Lopez Gomez, Universidad de Granada13: Elusive Sel Sites: The Geoarchaeological Quest for Icelandic Shielings and the Case of Porvaldsstadasel, in Northeast Iceland Patrycja Kupiec, University of Aberdeen, Karen Milek, University of Aberdeen, Gudrun Alda Gisladottir and James Woollett, Universite Laval

Über Autor(innen)

John Collis is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Archaeology, University of Sheffield.
Mark Pearce is Professor of Mediterranean Prehistory, University of Nottingham.
Franco Nicolis is Director of the Office of Archaeological Heritage in Trentino, northern Italy.