The Making of the Cretan LandscapeManchester University Press, 1996 - 237 Seiten This is the first book to help the visitor understand Crete's remarkable landscape, which is just as spectacular as the island's rich archaeological heritage. Crete is a wonderful and dramatic island, a miniature continent with precipitous mountains, a hundred gorges, unique plants, extinct animals and lost civilisations, as well as the characteristic agricultural landscape of olive groves, vines and goats, Jennifer Moody and Oliver Rackham explain how the island's peculiar and extraordinary features, moulded and modified by centuries of human activity, have come together to create the landscape we see today. They also explain the formation and ecology of Crete's beautiful mountains and coastline, and the contemporary threats to the island's fragile natural beauty. |
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
Aegean ancient animals Apokorona archaeological Ayios bibliography Bronze Age browsing Byzantine Candia castles cave century chapels Chapter cliffs climate coast coastal coppice corsairs Cretan landscape Crete cretica crops cultivation cypress deciduous deciduous oak Early endemic erosion especially evidence fields Figure Frangokástello Gávdhos goats Gorge Greece Greek grow hamlets Herákleion houses Ierapetra INHABITANTS island islets Khaniá Ky Knossós Kouphonísi land Lassíthi Plain Late Minoan limestone Little Ice Age madháres mainland mammals maquis marl medieval Mediterranean middle monasteries mountain-plains Muslim Myrtos names Neolithic olive Omalós peak sanctuaries Petromarula phrygana phyllite pine place-names places plants platey Pleistocene pollen pollen cores population prickly-oak Psilorítis Rackham Raulin records Réthymnon roads rocks Roman Samariá screes settlement sheep shepherds shrubs sinkholes Siteía slopes soil Sphakiá spring steppe survive terraces Theophrastus timber Turkish Turkish period Turks undershrubs vegetation Venetian period villages walls west Crete White Mountains woodland woods
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The Nature of Mediterranean Europe: An Ecological History Alfred Thomas Grove,Oliver Rackham Eingeschränkte Leseprobe - 2003 |