The Western European Loess Belt Agrarian History, 5300 BC - AD 1000 /

• Main Author: Bakels, Corrie C. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2009.
• Subjects: Social sciences.; History.; Geography.; Agriculture.; Archaeology.; Social Sciences.; History, general.; Geography, general.

This book deals with the early history of agriculture in a defined part of Western Europe: the loess belt west of the river Rhine. It is a well-illustrated book that integrates existing and new information, starting with the first farmers and ending when food production was no longer the chief sourc...

Table of Contents:

• The Loess-Covered Region West of the River Rhine, 5300 BC–AD 1000
• Sources
• The Beginning: 5300 BC–4900 BC
• Heirs to the First Farmers: 4900 BC–4300 BC
• Innovation and Expansion: 4300 BC–2650 BC
• The First Millennia of Agricultural Landscape
• Towards a More Complex Society: 2650 BC–50 BC
• of the Roman Empire: 50 BC–AD 407
• The Early Middle Ages: AD 407–AD 1000
• The Birth of the Cultural Landscape
• Summing Up Six Millennia of Agriculture.