How is history relevant to the present, or indeed the future? Governments around the world
have used history to inform planning and decision‐making in various fields for years, but …

International policies and guidelines often highlight the divide between 'nature'and
'heritage'in landscape management, and the weakness of monodisciplinary approaches …

Terrace farming installations occupy vast desert areas in the Southern Levant. Their
construction in harsh environments raises critical questions focusing on the natural, political …

Historical field systems are an essential part of the traditional cultural landscape of societies
with primarily agricultural subsistence. They embody many functions and values, as they …

This paper develops a regional dataset of change at 381 settlements for Lycia-Pamphylia in
southwest Anatolia (Turkey) from volume 8 of the Tabula Imperii Byzantini–a compilation of …

With the limited availability of water, rain-fed horticulture is important anywhere in the world,
especially in countries with arid climates. Therefore, experimental analysis is necessary to …

Terracing is found widely in the Mediterranean and in other hilly and mountainous regions of
the world. Yet while archaeological attention to these 'mundane'landscape features has …

Lynchets are ridges formed by erosion and sediment accumulation downstream of
agricultural plots and offer valuable insights into past agricultural activity. These …

Palaeoenvironmental and historical approaches have often been used separately to
investigate past land-use change, but they are still rarely combined, especially in places …

ABSTRACT In the Northern Apennines, significant modifications to the characteristic
historical features of landscapes have occurred since the 1950s as agriculture declined in …