The Long-Term Ecology of Agricultural Terraces and Enclosed Fields from Antikythera, Greece
The Long-Term Ecology of Agricultural Terraces and Enclosed Fields from Antikythera, Greece
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10.1007/s10745-012-9552-x
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2013-04-01
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2
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Stellatou, A.
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作者：
Bevan, A.;Conolly, J.;Stellatou, A.
梯田无处不在，在某种程度上定义了地中海环境的特征，但它们的长期历史以及与人口和粮食经济的关系还没有得到很好的理解。本文讨论了横跨希腊安提基西拉小岛的一个完整的梯田系统。我们汇集了考古学、民族志、档案历史、植物学和地质考古学的证据，并通过对埋藏阶地土壤的直接测年来支持，并考虑了阶地投资与岛上间断的人类活动历史中的主要事件的关系。这种广谱的方法对梯田的空间结构、梯田建设与人口变化之间的关联程度以及梯田废弃对植被和土壤的影响产生了一系列有趣的见解。
Terraces are ubiquitous, in some ways defining, features of Mediterranean environments, yet their longer-term history and relationship to human populations and food economies are not well understood. This paper discusses a complete system of terraces across the small island of Antikythera, Greece. We bring together the evidence from archaeology, ethnography, archival history, botany and geoarchaeology, supported by direct dating of buried terrace soils, and consider terrace investment in relation to major episodes in the island's punctuated history of human activity. This broad-spectrum approach leads to a range of interesting insights on the spatial structure of terraces, on the degree of correlation between terrace construction and changing human population, and on the implications of terrace abandonment for vegetation and soils.