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Landscape and people of the Franchthi region
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| Document Type: | Online Resource Book |
| Language: | English |
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Bloomington
: Indiana University Press
, ©1987
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| Series: | Excavations at Franchthi Cave, Greece
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| Online Access: | http://proxy.fid-lizenzen.de/han/jstor-ebooks-altertum/www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctv7vcszh |
| Related Items: | Erscheint auch als:
Landscape and people of the Franchthi region |
| E-Book Packages: | JSTOR E-Books in Classical Studies |
Table of Contents:
- 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
