The agro-pastoral exploitation of pre-Etruscan southern Etruria : GIS land evaluation models for the final Bronze and early Iron Ages /
This book presents a new methodology (the agroeconomist approach) for the investigation of human settlement dynamics, focusing on the agropastoral exploitation of their landscapes. This approach hypothesizes that the changes in the primary economy in early complex societies played a key role in soci...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford, UK :
BAR Publishing,
[2024].
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| Series: | BAR international series ;
3180. |
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| Summary: | This book presents a new methodology (the agroeconomist approach) for the investigation of human settlement dynamics, focusing on the agropastoral exploitation of their landscapes. This approach hypothesizes that the changes in the primary economy in early complex societies played a key role in social transformation that led to more complex forms of political organization. To verify this assumption, a series of landscape archaeological and land evaluation techniques were applied to the territory of southern Etruria to reconstruct the degree of landscape suitability for agropastoral exploitation during the so-called Protourban Turn, i.e. the transition from the village communities of the Final Bronze Age to the first urban centers of the early Iron Age. To investigate this major transformation, a digital predictive model of the landscape was developed, along with a GIS tool. |
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| Physical Description: | xxii, 194 pages : illustrations, color maps ; 30 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-194). |
| ISBN: | 1407361791 9781407361796 |