Barker Graeme. A Mediterranean Valley: Landscape Archaeology and Annales History in the Biferno Valley

Liecester University Press, 1995. — 351 p. — ISBN: 0-7185-1906-X.From the lakeside encampment of Stone Age scavengers three-quarters of a million years ago to the problems facing modern-day farmers, A Mediterranean Valley documents the long-term settlement history of the Biferno Valley in central-southern Italy, analysing the symbiotic relationship of its landscape and its inhabitants.
Integrating the techniques of archaeology, history and geography, this volume traces the history of human settlement in the Valley and shows how it is inextricably linked to the parallel story of landscape development. Unique in its geographical and historical time-scale, the Biferno Valley project is widely cited within the archaeological community and is considered the best example to date of the importance of human settlement in shaping the Mediterranean landscape.Approaches to Mediterranean landscape history (Graeme Barker).
The Biferno valley: the modern landscape (Graeme Barker).
The Biferno Valley Survey: methodologies (Graeme Barker).
The natural landscape and its evolution (Chris Hunt).
Early prehistoric settlement (Graeme Barker, with a contribution by Tim Reynolds).
The first agricultural communities (Graeme Barker, with contributions by Gill Clark, Chris Hunt, Caroline Malone, Tim Reynolds and Derrick Webley).
The settlement expansion of the 2nd millennium BC (Graeme Barker, with contributions by Gill Clark, Chris Hunt, Susan Lukesh and Derrick Webley).
Iron age chiefdoms (c.1000-500 BC) (Graeme Barker and Marlene Suano, with contributions by Gill Clark, John Giorgi and Derrick Webley).
Pentri, Frentani and the beginnings of urbanization (c. 500-80 BC) (John Lloyd, with contributions by Graeme Barker, Gill Clark and Derrick Webley).
Roman towns and territories (c. 80 BC–AD 600) (John Lloyd, with contributions by Graeme Barker, Gill Clark and Derrick Webley).
The evolution of hilltop villages (AD 600-1500) (Richard Hodges and Chris Wickham, with a contribution by Graeme Barker).
Feudalism and the 'Southern Question' (AD 1500 to the present) (Graeme Barker, with a contribution by Peter Taylor).
Retrospect: the evolution of a Mediterranean landscape (Graeme Barker).