IMC 2020: Sessions
Session 606: Defining Forests: Forest Management in Long Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages, II - Detecting Forests
Tuesday 7 July 2020, 11.15-12.45
| Organiser: | Bernhard Muigg, Institut für Forstwissenschaften, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg |
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| Moderator/Chair: | David Wallace-Hare, Department of Classics, University of Toronto |
| Paper 606-a | Fruit Tree Place-Names in England: Linguistic Artefacts as Evidence for Early Medieval Orchards (Language: English) Index terms: Economics - Rural, Geography and Settlement Studies, Onomastics |
| Paper 606-b | Potential of Pollen-Based Vegetation Modelling to Assess Regional and Local Forest Cover / Composition / Diversity and Management in the Past: A Case Study in Southern Sweden (Language: English) Index terms: Archaeology - Sites, Economics - Rural, Geography and Settlement Studies |
| Paper 606-c | Dendroarchaeology and Forests: Detecting Early Medieval Forest Management Systems from Growth Patterns (Language: English) Index terms: Archaeology - Sites, Economics - Rural, Technology |
| Abstract | Forests often represented border areas between cultivated land and wilderness and almost always contained important resources whose ownership was hotly contended and controlled. This multi-session panel provides a cross-disciplinary approach examining forest use during Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages (3rd-10th century CE) combining written sources, archaeological evidence, and proxy data. Forests provided valuable resources (e.g. construction timber, fuelwood, acorns) for past societies but have only recently come under intense scholarly scrutiny in the last decades. Session II focuses on cross-disciplinary methods for detecting Early Medieval forest cover, use, and management. |