Disruptive Environmental Change and Resilience: The German South-West in the Later Middle Ages

2020 ◽  
pp. 121-137
Author(s):  
Peter Rückert
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Change ◽  
Middle Ages ◽  
South West

A Study in the History of Clare, Suffolk; with Special Reference to its Development as a Borough (Alexander Prize Essay, 1928)

1928 ◽  
Vol 11 ◽  
pp. 83-115
Author(s):  
Gladys A. Thornton
Keyword(s):  
Special Reference ◽  
Middle Ages ◽  
Subsequent Development ◽  
Considerable Importance ◽  
Medieval Period ◽  
South West ◽  
Full Development ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Town ◽  
Prize Essay

Clare is situated in the south-west corner of Suffolk, in the valley of the Stour River. At the present day it is only a village, for its market is no longer held; yet its history shows that in earlier times it was of considerable importance, especially during the medieval period, when it was a favourite residence of the Clare lords. The town then had a busy market and a flourishing cloth-making industry; and at one time it seemed possible that Clare might attain full development as a borough, possessing as it did some burghal characteristics. In the following pages it is proposed to study in detail the history of Clare as a seignorial borough during the Middle Ages, and its subsequent development.

scholarly journals Stratigraphic Division of Holocene Loess in China

Radiocarbon ◽  
1994 ◽  
Vol 36 (1) ◽  
pp. 37-45 ◽  
Author(s):  
Weijian Zhou ◽  
Zhisheng An ◽  
M. J. Head
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Change ◽  
Loess Plateau ◽  
Engineering Geology ◽  
Global Climate ◽  
The Loess Plateau ◽  
Human Occupation ◽  
South West ◽  
Stratigraphic Division ◽  
History Of ◽  
Loess Deposition

Loess deposition within the Loess Plateau of China records the history of environmental change over the last 2.5 Myr. Loess-paleosol sequences of the last 10 ka, which have preserved information of global climate change, relate closely to human occupation of the area. Hence, studies of the deposition and development of Holocene loess are significant for studying environmental change and problems associated with engineering geology. We present here stratigraphic relations among four profiles from the south, west and center of the Loess Plateau. On the basis of 14C radiometric and AMS dates of organic material extracted from the paleosols, together with magnetic susceptibility measurements down each profile, we discuss Holocene stratigraphic divisions within the Loess Plateau, and suggest that the Holocene optimum, characterized by paleosol complexes, occurred between 10 and 5 ka bp. From 5 ka BP to the present, neoglacial activity is characterized by recently deposited loess.

scholarly journals The Archaeological Search for Tartessos-Tarshish-Atlantis and Other Human Settlements in the Donana National Park

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rainer Kühne
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
National Park ◽  
Doñana National Park ◽  
Human Settlements ◽  
Preliminary Results ◽  
The Third ◽  
South West ◽  
Neolithic Age ◽  
The Neolithic Age ◽  
The Middle Ages

Adolf Schulten suggested that Tartessos-Tarshish was the model for Plato's Atlantis. I argued that its capital was situated in what is now the Marisma de Hinojos within the central part of the Andalucian Donana National Park in south-west Spain. This article reports about the preliminary results of an archaeological expedition to test this theory. The preliminary results of the expedition include evidence of either a tsunami or a storm flood during the third millenium BC and evidence of human settlements from the Neolithic Age to the Middle Ages.

Arroyos and Environmental Change in the American South-West

1977 ◽  
Vol 143 (2) ◽  
pp. 311
Author(s):  
A. S. Goudie ◽  
Ronald U. Cooke ◽  
Richard W. Reeves
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Change ◽  
American South ◽  
South West ◽  
The American South

scholarly journals Marginal Life: Experiencing a Medieval Landscape in the Periphery

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 93-113
Author(s):  
Karin Altenberg
Keyword(s):  
Social Structure ◽  
Middle Ages ◽  
Cultural Landscape ◽  
Regional Identity ◽  
Landscape Archaeology ◽  
Human Geography ◽  
Prehistoric Archaeology ◽  
Landscape Studies ◽  
South West ◽  
The Middle Ages

Medieval landscape archaeology has mainly focused on the function and management of medieval settlements and their immediate surroundings. While theories concerning the experience of the cultural landscape, regional identity and social structure have proved fruitful in other disciplines such as prehistoric archaeology and human geography, medievalists have disregarded the possibilities of phenomenology for landscape studies. The wealth of materiel available to medieval landscape studies ought to be fully exploited in the development of theories concerning the experience of the landscape during the Middle Ages. Evidence from Bodmin Moor and Dartmoor in south-west Britain is re-examined in order to discuss the ways in which the landscape was perceived by those who lived and worked on the moors and by those who had an interest in the moors from further afield.

scholarly journals Frequency of Dental Caries in Four Historical Populations from the Chalcolithic to the Middle Ages

2011 ◽  
Vol 2011 ◽  
pp. 1-7 ◽  
Author(s):  
A.-M. Grimoud ◽  
S. Lucas ◽  
A. Sevin ◽  
P. Georges ◽  
O. Passarrius ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
Food Access ◽  
Middle Age ◽  
Population Sample ◽  
Historical Period ◽  
South West ◽  
Time Period ◽  
Carious Lesions ◽  
The Impact

The majority of dental carie studies over the course of historical period underline mainly the prevalence evolution, the role of carbohydrates consumption and the impact of access to dietary resources. The purpose of the present investigation was to compare population samples from two archaeological periods the Chacolithic and Middle Age taking into account the geographical and socio economical situation. The study concerned four archaelogical sites in south west France and population samples an inlander for the Chalcolithic Age, an inlander, an costal and urban for the Middle Age. The materials studied included a total of 127 maxillaries, 103 mandibles and 3316 teeth. Data recorded allowed us to display that the Chalcolithic population sample had the lowest carie percentage and the rural inlander population samples of Middle Age the highest; in all cases molars were teeth most often affected. These ones differences could be explained according to time period, carious lesions were usually less recorded in the Chalcolithic Age than the Middle because of a lesser cultivation of cereals like in les Treilles Chacolithic population sample. In the Middle Age population samples, the rural inland sample Marsan showed the highest frequency of caries and ate more cereal than the coastal Vilarnau and the poor urban St Michel population samples, the first one ate fish and Mediterranean vegetal and fruits and the second one met difficulties to food access, in both cases the consumption of carbohydrates was lesser than Marsan population sample who lived in a geographical land convice to cereals cultivation.

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