Landscape and Land Use in First Millennium BC Southeast Italy: Planting the Seeds of Change

This book offers a comprehensive overview of landscape and land use in southeast Italy in the first millennium BCE. Using the most up-to-date techniques, it combines archaeobotanical and archaeozoological data with information from excavations, field surveys, and ancient written texts to place the relationship between people and landscapes in a broad geographical and chronological framework. It also confronts questions of food habits, the scale and organisation of agricultural production, the influx of Greek and Roman colonists, and the effects of globalisation on local and regional land use.

Daphne Lentjes studied Mediterranean archaeology at VU University Amsterdam and the Università del Salento in Lecce, Italy. She has over 15 years of experience working as a botanical specialist on excavations in Italy and Greece and has published widely on the use of archaeological plant remains to reconstruct landscapes and farming practices. as a botanical specialist on excavations in Italy and Greece and has published widely on the use of archaeological plant remains to reconstruct landscapes and farming practices.