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Landscape and people of the Franchthi region /
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Bloomington :
Indiana University Press,
c1987.
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| Colección: | Excavations at Franchthi Cave, Greece ;
fasc. 2. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Landscape and People of the Franchthi Region; Title; Copyright; CONTENTS; FIGURES; TABLES; PLATES; FOREWORD; PREFACE; Part I. The Landscape; Chapter One The Modern Landscape; Physiography and Climate; Vegetation; Geological History; Water and Other Resources; Chapter Two Soils and Alluvium; Erosion, Alluviation, and Soil Formation; The Late Quaternary Record; Causes of Soil Erosion and Alluviation; Chapter Three The Adjacent Sea; Late Quaternary Sea Level History; Pleistocene and Holocene Shores at Franchthi; The Sea Around the Argolid; Chapter Four Evolution of the Franchthi Landscape
- Part II. The PeopleChapter Five The Franchthi Region in Modern Times; Conditions in the Early Eighteenth Century; Expansion and Revolution; Shifting Fortunes, Shifting Strategies; Nineteenth Century Adaptations in Maritime Commerce; The Crisis in Greek Shipping and Twentieth Century Adaptations; The Range of Current Economic Activities; Modern Settlement Patterns; Contrasts and Continuities with Antiquity; Notes; REFERENCES CITED; PLATES