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Reconstructing an agrarian system in the Alpes-Maritimes, France

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

M.J. Allen  and
Anthony Lewison
M.J. Allen
Affiliation:
16 Bracknell Gardens, London NW3 7EB
Anthony Lewison
Affiliation:
16 Bracknell Gardens, London NW3 7EB
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Abstract

For someone accustomed to the rural intensity of settlement one still finds in northern Europe, it can be a surprise to find, in mountain France or Italy, how many are the high valleys that now have lost their people. In just one the editor happens to know, La Maglia in the eastern Alpes-Maritimes, which once supported 40 or so farms, the cultivated land, so laboriously won by terracing, is virtually all let go now to grass and scrub. But how old are the structures and fields that belong with dense settlement of these marginal lands? A study has been made at the other side of the same département of the Alpes-Maritimes, in the extreme SE corner of France.

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Antiquity , Volume 61 , Issue 233 , November 1987 , pp. 364 - 369
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd 1987

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