Fire, Axe, and Plow: Human Influence on Local Plant Communities in the Southern Argolid

Forbes, Hamish; Koster, Harold A.

doi:10.1111/j.1749-6632.1976.tb47638.x

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“…They are still frequent in these two areas but their cultivation is currently declining (463-7 ha in 1961; 269-1 ha in 1971) and they are almost completely absent from the plains of Louka and Nestane. 108 Numerous nineteenth-century visitors referred to the Mantineian plains as comparatively treeless. 109 This is still true of the plains of Nestane and Louka and the N. part of the main valley, although recent years have witnessed a significant development of orchards of apples and pears in the better drained and relatively less silty central and S. areas of the main valley.…”

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Mantineia and the Mantinike: Settlement and Society in a Greek Polis

Hodkinson¹,

Hodkinson²

1981

Annu. Br. Sch. Athens

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The purpose of this study is to combine an archaeological and a historical analysis of settlement within the territory of the polis of Mantineia in E. Arkadia during the Archaic and Classical periods. Its aim is twofold: first, to collect and interpret the evidence for settlements and their history; secondly, to examine that evidence in relation to Mantineia's society and economy, in order to assess the significance of changes of settlement patterns for the nature of the Mantineian polis. The changes in question revolve around the eventful history of the town of Mantineia which was founded sometime in the late Archaic or early Classical period, destroyed by the Spartans and compulsorily abandoned in 385 B.C., and finally refounded in 370, remaining in existence until the sixth to seventh centuries A.D.The significance of these changes for the political and military history of the Peloponnese, especially for the vital interests of Spartan foreign policy, was realized in antiquity and has been discussed in detail in several modern accounts. The location of Mantineian territory within the Peloponnese (Fig. 1) made it a strategic military focus and thoroughfare. Mantineia, together with Tegea and Pallantion, occupied the modern valley of Tripolis, which enclosed the largest plain of E. Arkadia and was linked directly with the valley of Sparta through the N. Lakonian hills by at least two major routes used by military traffic.

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“…The evidence of the area's agricultural potential, as testified by its physical environment and 108 Fougeres, MAO 58-9; personal observation. by modern farming, is a necessary control and a valuable aid in our understanding of the ancient agriculture.…”

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Mantineia and the Mantinike: Settlement and Society in a Greek Polis

Hodkinson¹,

Hodkinson²

1981

Annu. Br. Sch. Athens

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“…only when there is a retraction of cultivation and the land is abandoned that severe erosion will commence. 45 Michael Jameson has recently argued that in the fifth and fourth centuries demographic pressure led to an intensification of agriculture in the Attic countryside. 46 If the argument is accepted that extensification would have a higher priority than intensification, then a fortiori at some point extensification must have occurred.…”

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Agricultural Systems, Land Tenure, and the Reforms of Solon

Gallant¹

1982

Annu. Br. Sch. Athens

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The reforms of Solon have been a source of debate for many years now. The number of articles, chapters, and books written about them is legion. The justification for the present attempt is that it approaches the problem from a slightly different angle. The overriding aims of this paper are: (a) to elucidate what the agricultural system was in this period and to demonstrate that it did not ‘change with glacial slowness’ and that farmers were not incapable of increasing production; (b) to propose the adoption of a slightly different theoretical framework for analysing the culture of Greece in the eighth and seventh centuries B.C. Here, as in so many studies of archaic economies, the main schools of thought are the formalists and the substantivists; the formalists can be further broken down into the capitalists and the Marxists (see below p. 119). Proponents of both sides use predominantly, though not exclusively, analogies derived from Medieval Europe; this, as I shall argue shortly, has led to some serious misunderstandings. Feudal Europe was the culmination of a long development which was very different from that which preceded archaic Greece. Although it is possible to see some resemblances, on the whole they were two distinct cultures.

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