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Book SynopsisThis is the first overview of summer farm sites in Europe written from an archaeological point of view.
Table of Contents1: Summer Farms: An Introduction John Collis 2: Pastoral Exploitation of the Caspian and Don Steppes and the North Caucasus during the Bronze Age: Seasonality and Isotopes N.I. Shishlina, Russian State Historical Museum, and Y.O. Larionova, Russian Academy of Sciences 3: `Salaš’: Summer Farming and Transhumance in the Czech Republic from a (Pre)historic and Environmental Perspective Dagmar Dreslerová, Czech Academy of Sciences 4: Hard Cheese: Upland Pastoralism in the Italian Bronze and Iron Ages Mark Pearce, University of Nottingham 5: Shepherds and Miners through Time in the Veneto Highlands: Ethnoarchaeology and Archaeology Mara Migliavacca, University of Padua 6: Seasonal Settlements and Husbandry Resources in the Ligurian Apennines (17th–20th centuries) Anna Maria Stagno, University of Genoa/University of the Basque Country 7: The `Invisible’ Shepherd and the `Visible’ Dairyman: Ethnoarchaeology of Alpine Pastoral Sites in the Val di Fiemme (Eastern Italian Alps) Francesco Carrer, University of York 8: Going up the Mountain! Exploitation of the Trentino Highlands as Summer Farms during the Bronze Age: The Dosso Rotondo Site at Storo (Northern Italy) Franco Nicolis, Elisabetta Mottes, Provincia autonoma di Trento, Michele Bassetti, Cora Società Archeologica, Elisabetta Castiglioni, Musei Civici di Como, Mauro Rottoli, Musei Civici di Como and Sara Ziggiotti 9: Pastoral Land Use and Climate between the 17th and 19th Century in the Italian Southern Alps (Pasubio Massif, Trento): A Preliminary Report Marco Avanzini and Isabella Salvador, Museo delle Scienze, Trento 10: Alpine Huts, Livestock and Cheese in the Oberhasli Region (Switzerland): Medieval and Early Modern Building Remains and their Historical Context Brigitte Andres, Independent Scholar 11: Driving Forces and Variability in the Exploitation of a High-altitude Landscape from the Neolithic to Medieval Periods in the Southern French Alps Kevin Walsh, University of York, and Florence Mocci, Aix-Marseille Université 12: An Archaeological Approach to the Brañas: Summer Farms in the Pastures of the Cantabrian Mountains (Northern Spain) David González Álvarez, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Margarita Fernández Mier, Universidad de León, and Pablo López Gómez, Universidad de Granada 13: Elusive Sel Sites: The Geoarchaeological Quest for Icelandic Shielings and the Case of Þorvaldsstaðasel, in Northeast Iceland Patrycja Kupiec, University of Aberdeen, Karen Milek, University of Aberdeen, Guðrún Alda Gísladóttir and James Woollett, Université Laval
