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

• Main Author: Bakels, Corrie C. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2009.
• Subjects: Social sciences.; Geography.; Agriculture.; Archaeology.; Social Sciences.; Geography (general).
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-9840-6

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:

• Preface
• 1 The loess covered region west of the river Rhine. 5300 BC-AD 1000
• 2 Sources
• 3 The beginning: 5300 BC-4900 BC
• 4 Heirs to the first farmers: 4900-4300 BC
• 5 Innovation and expansion: 4300-2650 BC
• 6 The first millennia of agricultural landscape
• 7 Towards a more complex society: 2650  50 BC
• 8 Part of the Roman Empire: 50 BC  AD 407
• 9 The Early Middle Ages: AD 407-AD 1000
• 10 The birth of the rural landscape
• 11 Summing up six millennia of agriculture
• Glossary
• Select bibliography
• Source of figures and tables
• Index.