The Making of the Cretan LandscapeManchester University Press, 1996 - 237 páginas 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. |
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Placenames | 33 |
Vegetation | 33 |
Terraces fields and enclosures | 96 |
XV | 96 |
Chronology | 96 |
History pseudohistory | 37 |
Unusual places | 47 |
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Islets | 61 |
The future | 67 |
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Palavras e frases frequentes
Aegean Akrotiri Peninsula 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 Gávdhos goats Gorge Greece Greek grow hamlets Herakleion houses Ierapetra INHABITANTS island islets Khaniá Ky Kissamos Knossós Kouphonísi land Lassíthi 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 Plain plants platey Pleistocene pollen population prickly-oak Psilorítis Rackham rare Raulin records Réthymnon roads rocks Roman Samariá screes settlement sheep shepherds shrubs Siteía slopes soil Sphakiá spring steppe survive terraces timber Turkish Turkish period Turks undershrubs vegetation Venetian period villages walls west Crete White Mountains woodland woods