The colonisation of uplands in medieval Britain and Ireland: Climate, agriculture and environmental adaptation

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dc.contributor.authorCostello, Eugene
dc.contributor.funderStockholms Universiteten
dc.contributor.funderAlbert and Maria Bergström Foundationen
dc.date.accessioned2021-09-02T10:43:04Z
dc.date.available2021-09-02T10:43:04Z
dc.date.issued2021-02-16
dc.date.updated2021-03-09T10:08:49Z
dc.description.abstractThe study of how medieval farmers colonised upland environments, and lived there on a year-round basis, can provide valuable insights on the long-term adaptability and resilience of rural communities. Yet there is a lack of clarity on the extent and chronology of this phenomenon in Britain and Ireland, and how to explain it without simplistic climate, population or market determinism. By undertaking a critical review of the evidence for upland colonisation across medieval Britain and Ireland, this article demonstrates that ‘glocal’ perspectives are crucial. Locally favourable geology, non-agrarian resources, and prior domestication of sites through prehistoric settlement and transhumance all encouraged upland colonisation. Indeed, when combined with regional socio-economic trends, these local factors sometimes overrode wider climatic conditions. As researchers look increasingly to large-scale modelling of land-use change, this article provides a reminder not to lose sight of the local landscape context and environmental knowledge of the peoples they are studying.en
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden
dc.description.versionPublished Versionen
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dc.identifier.citationCostello, E. (2021) 'The colonisation of uplands in medieval Britain and Ireland: Climate, agriculture and environmental adaptation', Medieval Archaeology, 65(1), pp. 151-179. doi: 10.1080/00766097.2020.1826123en
dc.identifier.doi10.1080/00766097.2020.1826123en
dc.identifier.eissn1745-817X
dc.identifier.endpage179en
dc.identifier.issn0076-6097
dc.identifier.issued1en
dc.identifier.journaltitleMedieval Archaeologyen
dc.identifier.startpage151en
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10468/11824
dc.identifier.volume65en
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherTaylor & Francis Groupen
dc.rights© 2021, the Author. Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way.en
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/en
dc.subjectMedieval farmersen
dc.subjectUpland environmentsen
dc.subjectBritainen
dc.subjectIrelanden
dc.titleThe colonisation of uplands in medieval Britain and Ireland: Climate, agriculture and environmental adaptationen
dc.typeArticle (peer-reviewed)en
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