IMC 2020: Sessions
Session 706: Defining Forests: Forest Management in Long Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages, III - Exploiting and Managing Forests
Tuesday 7 July 2020, 14.15-15.45
| Organiser: | David Wallace-Hare, Department of Classics, University of Toronto |
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| Moderator/Chair: | Bernhard Muigg, Institut für Forstwissenschaften, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg |
| Paper 706-a | Exploiting Woodlands: Evidence from an Early Medieval Crannog (Language: English) Index terms: Archaeology - Sites, Geography and Settlement Studies |
| Paper 706-b | Land Clearing and Forest Use in Early Medieval Luxembourg: Testimony from Toponymy (Language: English) Index terms: Economics - Rural, Geography and Settlement Studies, Onomastics |
| Paper 706-c | Woodland Management in North-Western France between 250 and 1000 (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 series 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. timber, fuelwood, acorns) for past societies but have only recently come under intense scholarly scrutiny in the last decades. Session III focuses on exploitation and management of woodland resources during Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages from historical, archaeological, and dendrochronological perspectives. |