Land Use and the Agrarian Economy in the Roman Dutch River Area
This article aims to reconstruct agrarian land use for a rural community in the Roman frontier zone in the Netherlands. The Dutch River Area was characterised by a dynamic landscape. Rivers regularly flooded the surrounding low-lying land. Only the higher streamridges provided suitable places for habitation and arable agriculture. The limitations of the landscape dictated to a large extent both the types and quantities of crops and animals that could be produced. An interactive map of the micro-region of Tiel-Passewaaij shows how the land was used for agrarian production and sourced for other... Mehr ...
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Dokumenttyp: | Artikel |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 2009 |
Reihe/Periodikum: | Internet Archaeology, Iss 27 (2009) |
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University of York
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Schlagwörter: | archaeology / Tiel-Passewaaij / Dutch River Area / Roman agrarian economy / arable farming / pastoral farming / landuse reconstruction / riverine landscape / CC1-960 |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Permalink: | https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/base-28984761 |
Datenquelle: | BASE; Originalkatalog |
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Link(s) : | https://doaj.org/article/0a23889cd7c24f71b886be6475ca43d9 |