Historical Archaeologies of Transhumance across Europe

Eugene Costello is a landscape archaeologist with interests in pastoralism, non-elite society and the archaeology of the Reformation. He received his BA (UCC) in 2011, MA (Sheffield) in 2012, and PhD (NUI) in 2016. He was a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow at University of Notre Dame, USA, for 2016–2017 and is currently a Visiting Lecturer in Archaeology at National University of Ireland, Galway.Eva Svensson is a historical archaeologist and professor in the Department of Life and Environmental Sciences, Karlstad University, Sweden. Her main research interests include social and ecological approaches to forested landscapes in a long-term perspective, and subaltern environment and lifescapes in the eighteenth to twentieth centuries. She has published extensively on both topics in Swedish and English.

• 1. Transhumant pastoralism in historic landscapes: beginning a European perspective; 2. The Scandinavian shieling – in between innovation and tradition; 3. From written sources to archaeological remains – medieval shielings in Central Scandinavia; 4. Winter housing: archaeological perspectives on Newfoundland’s non-pastoral transhumant tradition; 5. What do we really know about transhumance in medieval Scotland?; 6. Ethno-geoarchaeological study of seasonal occupation: Bhiliscleitir, the Isle of Lewis; 7. Morphology of transhumant settlements in post-medieval South Connemara: a case-study in adaptation; 8. The changing character of transhumance in early and later medieval England; 9. Seasonal pastoral settlement in the lower mountains of the Auvergne region (France) during the medieval and modern periods (thirteenth–eighteenth centuries); 10. Moving up and down throughout the seasons: winter and summer grazing between Provence and southern Alps (France) AD 1100–1500; 11. Alpine settlement remains in the Bernese Alps (Switzerland) in medieval and modern times: the visibility of alpine summer farming activities in the archaeological record; 12. Short- and long-distance transhumant systems and the commons in post-classical archaeology: case studies from southern Europe; 13. Transhumance in the mountains of northern Tuscany (Italy); 14. The role of marginal landscape for understanding transhumance in southern Tuscany (twelfth–twentieth century AD): a reverse perspective integrating ethnoarchaeological and historical approaches; 15. Transhumant herding systems in Iberia; 16. Transhumance dynamics in the Gredos Range (central Spain) during the last two millennia: environmental and socio-political vectors of change; 17. Ovine pastoralism and mobility systems in Romania: an ethnoarchaeological approach.

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