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The PhD thesis presented here investigates the historic landscape of the Cinque Terre through analysis of the multiform territorial iconography, descriptions of the past and the ancient cadastral records. The aim is to define a methodology (which could possibly also be extended to other contexts) for the qualitative appraisal of the landscape, where the yardstick is yielded by the abstract status conditions brought to light by parameters defined as "historic indicators". The temporal thresholds analysed (1612, 1643, 1799, 1918-32, 1982, 1990) lead to interpretative syntheses (for example, those on Riomaggiore) aimed at the identification of rules for project initiatives shared by the local communities.

Landscape archaeology. --- Archaeology --- Cultural landscapes

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Environmental planning --- Archeology --- rural planning --- landscape archaeology --- Verrebroek

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This book tells the comprehensive story of the extinct aurochs (Bos primigenius), the wild ancestor of our domestic cattle, and of what is still left of it. Not only until its extinction in 1627, the aurochs, because of its appearance and nature, had left a deep impression on people, but also afterwards this bovine species, due to scanty information and questionable interpretations, has been subject to discussion and mystification. In spite of a growing amount of individual scientific studies, no exhaustive overview on this subject has ever been made. After many years of research at Wageningen University, the existing information as well as numerous new or unused data from the fields of archaeozoology, history, philology, ecology and palaeoecology have been brought together by the author to build up a complete picture of the physical appearance, the way of life and the environment of the aurochs. Directly related to the ecology of the aurochs is the ongoing discussion concerning the supposed impact large herbivores render on forest structure, as well as on the appearance of the natural landscapes they live in. Here, too, existing and new surprising data from various fields of science are compiled to elucidate this problem. In addition, due attention is paid to the origin, description and evaluation of the so-called bred-back aurochs (Heck cattle), used in several places for educational and nature conservation purposes. Only now can Heck cattle be properly compared with the original aurochs prototype. The book is addressed to specialists in mammalogy (interested in the archaeology, ecology, morphology and history of mammals), palaeoecology (because of the herbivore-impact debate concerning the former natural landscape), forest ecology and European nature conservation, to cattle breeders and other cattle lovers.

Paleontology --- Paleoecology --- Social archaeology --- Bos --- Landscape archaeology --- Paléontologie --- Paléoécologie --- Archéologie sociale --- Archéologie du paysage

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Land settlement --- Human geography --- Elsbachtal (North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany) --- Antiquities --- Resettlement --- Settlement of land --- Colonies --- Land use, Rural --- Human settlements --- Anthropo-geography --- Anthropogeography --- Geographical distribution of humans --- Social geography --- Anthropology --- Geography --- Human ecology --- Antiquities. --- Germany --- Plant remains (Archaeology) --- Landscape archaeology --- Land settlement - Germany - Elsbachtal (North Rhine-Westphalia) --- Human geography - Germany - Elsbachtal (North Rhine-Westphalia) --- Elsbachtal (North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany) - Antiquities