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Author : Thomas W. Killion
Release : 1992-09-30
Genre : Technology & Engineering
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 653/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Gardens of Prehistory by : Thomas W. Killion
Download or read book Gardens of Prehistory written by Thomas W. Killion. This book was released on 1992-09-30. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gardens of Prehistory details the social developments that were created by the prehistoric agricultural systems of the New World.
Author : Naomi F. Miller
Release : 1997-09
Genre : Gardening
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Book Rating : 417/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Archaeology of Garden and Field by : Naomi F. Miller
Download or read book The Archaeology of Garden and Field written by Naomi F. Miller. This book was released on 1997-09. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cultivation and land use practices the world over reflect many aspects of people's relationship to each other and to the natural world. The Archaeology of Garden and Field explores the cultivation of land from prehistoric times to the nineteenth century through excavation, experimentation, and the study of modern cultural traditions. The Archaeology of Garden and Field contains a wealth of information distilled from the combined experiences of the editors and contributors. Whether one's interest is the Old World or the New, prehistory or the present, this book provides a starting point for anyone who has ever wondered how archaeologists find and interpret the ephemeral traces of ancient cultivation.
Author : Maureen Carroll
Release : 2003
Genre : Excavations (Archaeology).
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 214/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Earthly Paradises by : Maureen Carroll
Download or read book Earthly Paradises written by Maureen Carroll. This book was released on 2003. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The cultivation of gardens played an integral role in both the public and private spheres of the ancient world. Whether grown as sources of food, symbols of wealth and prestige, or as dwellings for the gods, gardens were nurtured at every level of society. In this beautifully illustrated book, Maureen Carroll examines the most recent evidence for the existence, functions, and designs of gardens from the second millennium B.C. to the middle of the first millennium A.D. in the cultures of the ancient Near East, Egypt, Greece, Italy, and the provinces of the Roman Empire. She looks at gardens in their many forms, including house gardens, orchards and parks, sacred gardens and cemetery gardens, and dedicates a chapter to gardens in ancient poetry. She also discusses ancient horticultural practices and the role of gardeners, concluding with a chapter on the survival of ancient gardening traditions in the Islamic and Byzantine worlds, and the perception and depiction of paradise in those cultures. Evidence is drawn from archaeological excavations, which can reveal the remains of gardens that were never mentioned in written sources, as well as from textual, pictorial, and environmental sources. Illustrated with delightful images from tomb and wall paintings, sculptural reliefs and manuscripts, as well as with informative reconstructions and plans, this book provides fascinating insights into the earthly paradises of antiquity. Book jacket.
Author : K. Sara Myers
Release : 2024
Genre : History
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 206/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Ancient Roman Literary Gardens by : K. Sara Myers
Download or read book Ancient Roman Literary Gardens written by K. Sara Myers. This book was released on 2024. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Beginning with Cicero and Varro and ending with Statius and Pliny the Younger, this chapter offers a chronological investigation of the ways in which real and literary gardens developed from the first century BCE to the first century CE as a means of elite masculine self-representation and the reactions of elite Roman men to the increased social and cultural power of villa and horti estates and their grounds. Gardens served as powerful symbols of wealth and as creative displays of the cultural aspirations of their owners in ways that challenged traditional definitions of gardens and of Roman manliness. Since these large-scale 'gardens' are primarily associated with leisure (otium), authors are concerned with describing and justifying their activities in these sites as befitting Roman masculine ideals. We can trace a change in attitude towards leisure and the private display of wealth, and consequently gardens, largely attributed to changes in the socio-political circumstances of the Roman elite, in the works of Statius and his contemporary Pliny the Younger, who use laudatory descriptions of extensive villas and grounds as a means of expressing social and literary power"--
Author : James H. S. McGregor
Release : 2015-02-10
Genre : Nature
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Book Rating : 620/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Back to the Garden by : James H. S. McGregor
Download or read book Back to the Garden written by James H. S. McGregor. This book was released on 2015-02-10. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The garden was the cultural foundation of the early Mediterranean peoples; they acknowledged their reliance on and kinship to the land, and they understood nature through the lens of their diversely cultivated landscape. Their image of the garden underwrote the biblical book of Genesis and the region’s three major religions. In this important melding of cultural and ecological histories, James H. S. McGregor suggests that the environmental crisis the world faces today is a result of Western society’s abandonment of the “First Nature” principle--of the harmonious interrelationship of human communities and the natural world. The author demonstrates how this relationship, which persisted for millennia, effectively came to an end in the late eighteenth century, when “nature” came to be equated with untamed landscape devoid of human intervention. McGregor’s essential work offers a new understanding of environmental accountability while proposing that recovering the original vision of ourselves, not as antagonists of nature but as cultivators of a biological world to which we innately belong, is possible through proven techniques of the past.
