F. Barbano (eds.), Sociologia, storia, positivismo: Messico, Brasile, Argentina e l'Italia (Milano, Italy: Franco Angeli, 1992), pp. 488, L. 56,000.

Discovering Plum, Watermelon and Grape Cultivars Founded in a Middle Age Site of Sassari (Sardinia, Italy) through a Computer Image Analysis Approach

“…Recently, Paris [59] concluded that it was selected in the Mediterranean Basin by no later than the 2nd century AD, while Watson [60] sustained the hypothesis that it was introduced during the Islamic period after being selected and improved in India. In Europe, archaeological records of watermelon have been reported for several Greek and Roman sites [22,61], and two seeds were discovered in Sardinia in Phoenician and Punic contexts [50]; however, it is difficult to determine which typology they belonged to. In fact, according to Paris [59], the citron melon arrived in Mediterranean lands during or prior to the Roman period, and Megaloudi [61] suggested that primitive bitter forms of watermelon might have existed in the pre-Islamic era.…”

“…Currently, archaeobotanical research in Sardinia (Italy) is focused on the Neolithic [3], Chalcolithic [4], Bronze Age [5][6][7][8][9][10][11], and Phoenician and Punic periods [12][13][14][15]. Unfortunately, only the archaeobotanical studies of Becca et al [16] and Bosi and Bandini Mazzanti [17] refer to the Middle Ages in Sardinia, in contrast to many Middle Age sites investigated in the Italian peninsula, which represent good examples of seed/fruit information for this period [17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25][26][27][28][29].…”

Spatio-temporal analysis of the urban–rural gradient structure: an application in a Mediterranean mountainous landscape (Serra San Bruno, Italy)

“…In Italy, in particular, an increase in urban pressure on the countryside can still be observed, owing to land renting and displacement of certain typical urban functions outside the cities (Murgante and Danese, 2011). This trend is a reversal of the demographic and territorial dynamics occurred during the period immediately following the Second World War and has resulted in the progressive urbanisation of rural areas; in a general increase in the number of inhabitants in the peri-urban belts; and in a decrease in resident population in towns (Alberti et al, 1994).…”

Innovative Local Development Initiatives in the Eastern Alps: Forest Therapy, Land Consolidation Associations and Mountaineering Villages

“…In the Italian Alps, with the exception of Südtirol, where traditional inheritance law prescribes the distribution of assets among heirs thus fragmenting property ownership, the size of agro-sylvo-pastoral firms has proved inadequate to make the transition from family subsistence to the market economy. These problems were exacerbated by the seasonal imbalance of agricultural work, absence of on-site work and the need to supplement farm income, which have given rise to a long tradition of pluri-activity carried out on the plains or even abroad [2][3][4][5][6][7].…”