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dc.contributor.authorRippon, Stephenen_GB
dc.contributor.departmentUniversity of Exeteren_GB
dc.date.accessioned2008-05-27T08:38:47Zen_GB
dc.date.accessioned2011-01-25T10:35:24Zen_GB
dc.date.accessioned2013-03-20T14:07:25Z
dc.date.issued2001en_GB
dc.description.abstract[FIRST PARAGRAPH] This is a study of how past human communities have perceived their environment, and made decisions as to how it should be exploited. In their natural state, coastal marshes are not ideal for settled agriculture and would be described as ,marginal': areas of poor quality agricultural land settled only at times of high population pressure (see for example Postan 1972). Intensification of the human exploitation of marginal environments has received considerable attention from archaeologists and landscape historians, though all too often discussion has focused simply upon the relationship between population increase and agriculture, and particularly the shift from pasture to arable. However, more recent scholarship is showing that a far wider range of factors affect how a particular landscape is exploited, including the structure of landholding, proximity to centres of consumption and any natural resources that might be available (see for example Bailey 1989; Dyer 1989; Rippon 1997a). This study focuses on one type of physically marginal landscape coastal marshland - and attempts to explore the reasons why similar environments are exploited in different ways depending on local socio-economic conditions.en_GB
dc.identifier.citationIn: Raftery, B. and Hickey, J. (eds). 2001. 'Recent Developments in Wetland Research'. Seandálaíocht: Mon 2, Dept Archaeol, UCD and WARP Occ. Paper 14. Dublin: Department of Archaeology, University College Dublin. pp.139-158en_GB
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10036/28212en_GB
dc.language.isoenen_GB
dc.publisherDepartment of Archaeology, University College Dublinen_GB
dc.relation.ispartofseriesDepartment of Archaeology, University College Dublin, Monograph Series, Vol 2en_GB
dc.relation.ispartofseriesWARP (Wetland Archaeology Research Project) Occasional Paper 14en_GB
dc.subjectcoastal marshlanden_GB
dc.subjectmedievalen_GB
dc.subjectreclamationen_GB
dc.titleReclamation and regional economies of medieval marshland in Britainen_GB
dc.typeConference paperen_GB
dc.date.available2008-05-27T08:38:47Zen_GB
dc.date.available2011-01-25T10:35:24Zen_GB
dc.date.available2013-03-20T14:07:25Z
dc.identifier.isbn0-9539520-1-0en_GB
dc.identifier.isbn0-9519117-7-5en_GB
dc.descriptionReproduced with permission of the publisher. © Individual authors, Department of Archaeology, University College Dublin and Wetland Archaeology Research Project.en_GB


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