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Walsh, Kevin. Interview about family history.
No full textInterview with Kevin Walsh. Walsh family history and land. Ownership of various lands and houses. Lewis famil
Genèse et évolution de l'approche environnementale dans l'archéologie des paysages méditerranéens
No full textWalsh Kevin. Genèse et évolution de l'approche environnementale dans l'archéologie des paysages méditerranéens. In: Méditerranée, tome 90, 4-1998. Archéologie et paléopaysages, sous la direction de Philippe Leveau et Mireille Provansal. pp. 61-64
Societal stability and environmental change: Examining the archaeology-soil erosion paradox
No full textThis paper critically examines the soil exhaustion and societal collapse hypothesis both theoretically and empirically. The persistence of civilizations, especially in the Mediterranean, despite intensive and presumably erosive arable farming creates what is described here as the archaeology soil erosion paradox. This paper examines the data used to estimate past erosion and weathering rates before presenting case studies that engage with the theoretical arguments. Study 1 shows 5000 years of high slope erosion rates with both soil use and agriculture continuously maintained in the catchment. Study 2 shows how ancient agricultural terraces were constructed as part of an integrated agricultural system that fed the ancient city of Stymphalos—now abandoned. Study 3 presents a recent example of how after the removal of terraces high soil erosion rates result during intense rainstorms but that arable agriculture can still be maintained while external costs are borne by other parties. What these case studies have in common is the creation of soil, and increased weathering rates while productivity is maintained due to a combination of soft bedrock and/or agricultural terraces. In societal terms this may not be sustainable but it does not necessarily lead to land abandonment or societal collapse
L'habitat fortifié du Mitronet (Puyloubier, B.-du-Rh.). Un site protohistorique isolé sur le massif Sainte-Victoire - Documents CD-ROM
No full textMocci Florence, Marty F., Walsh Kevin. L'habitat fortifié du Mitronet (Puyloubier, B.-du-Rh.). Un site protohistorique isolé sur le massif Sainte-Victoire - Documents CD-ROM. In: Documents d'Archéologie Méridionale, vol. 21, 1998. Entremont et les Salyens. Actes du colloque d'Aix-en-Provence 5-6 avril 1996. pp. 496-530
An epidemiological study of low back pain
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Introduction — Human-environment interfaces: Assessing the use of palaeoenvironmental information in Mediterranean landscape archaeology
No full textThis short paper serves as an introduction to a special issue of JASRep that brings together some of the papers from a session at the European Association of Archaeologists annual conference held in Istanbul in 2014. The aim of that session, and these papers was to discuss recent developments in Mediterranean palaeoenvironmental research, but more specifically, how this research is integrated with archaeological evidence. The papers in this special issue deal with the full range of Mediterranean landscape-types and time-periods, encompassing early prehistory to the Medieval period; some engage with broad-scale climatic processes, while others deal with individual landscape or site-based assessments of human-environment interactions. They illustrate how, in very different ways, we can try to integrate environmental and archaeological data to understand the reciprocal links between cultural and environmental change. This introduction thus serves to situate these papers into a methodological and theoretical framework
Archaeology, hydrogeology and geomythology in the Stymphalos Valley
No full textThis paper uses the results of recent excavations of the city of Stymphalos and environmental studies on the floor of the Stymphalos polje to examine the role of both the lake and springs in the history of the classical city. Associated with Artemis and famed for Herakles’ sixth labour (killing of the Stymphalian birds) the city has a rich mythology. Whilst this narrative has been associated solely with the lake, it is argued here that this geomythology was part of the city’s relationship to environmental unpredictability and the relationship between water supply and water loss. Seen in this context, the construction of the Fountain-house well above the contemporary lake-shore is symbolic of the importance of springs to the foundation and sustainability of the classical city during both the Greek and Roman Periods. Through these archaeological and environmental analyses, we seek to illustrate the complimentary, but complex nature of archaeological, hydrogeological and palaeoenvironmental data that intersect in the geomythological landscapes of Mediterranean antiquity
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