The Nomads of the Balkans: An Account of Life and Customs Among the Vlachs of Northern Pindus.

Tapper, Nancy; Wace, A. J. B.; Thompson, Maurice Scott

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“…The existence of Roman (?) smelting ore ( [2], p. 177) and coinage mint are reported to be practised until a few centuries ago at the edge of Valia Kalda along the southern slopes of Mount Smolikas.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Dating this human-made landscape requires a better knowledge of Vlach history in the past millennia and the local history of Holocene climate change. As for the first point, reference can only be found either in the ethnographic reports from the few ancient travellers who, for different reasons, crossed this remote land (mostly historians and military topographers) or in the archaeological surveys [2,18,28,29].…”

Section: Holocene Climate and Vegetationmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…One was excavated (HC-5: Figure 25) and 18 were sampled for radiocarbon-dating. The radiocarbon ages show that the deforestation of the territory took place in different periods of the Holocene (see Figure 2 bottom and Table 1) and continued into the nineteenth century ( [2], see p. 45). The same HC area yielded at least 80 "black spots", buried by ca.…”

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“…1450 m a.s.l. ), at the eastern piedmont of Mount Gurguliu (Gorgul'u) [2][3][4][5]. The initial purpose of the project was to search for high-altitude Mesolithic sites, in light of results achieved since the end of the 1960s in the Italian Alps, where dozens of early Holocene hunter-gatherer sites attributed to different Mesolithic periods were discovered [6][7][8].…”

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Mountain Landscape and Human Settlement in the Pindus Range: The Samarina Highland Zones of Western Macedonia, Greece

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Starnini

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Past human mountain settlement patterns and resource and high-altitude landscape exploitation are underexplored research fields in archaeology. This study presents data gathered during more than 20 years of fieldwork in the Pindus range of Western Macedonia (Greece), focusing in particular on Holocene land use. The investigated territory is located around the Vlach town of Samarina. The area is partly bounded by Mounts Vasilitsa, Gurguliu, Bogdani and Anitsa, and their interconnecting watersheds between ca. 1400 and 2000 m a.s.l. This research led to the discovery of many sites and findspots of lithic and ceramic artefacts attributed to the Middle and Upper Palaeolithic, Mesolithic, Late Neolithic, Chalcolithic, Bronze Age, and several Historical periods. The radiocarbon results show an unexpected longue durée of Holocene human landscape use. The number of sites, their distribution, location, and subsistence strategies exhibit shifts between the Middle Palaeolithic and different periods of the Holocene, which are closely related to the exploitation of the mountain environment and its resources. Moreover, typical knapped stone artefacts have been used as a proxy for dating the glacial landforms which characterise the Samarina highland zone; we correlate them to the better-known moraine systems of Mount Tymphi in Epirus and contribute to the reconstruction of the Pleistocene glacial landscapes of the Pindus Range.

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“…Assessing the micro-ecology of the region brings further nuance to the dietary profile of the studied individuals from POV. In Western (ancient Upper Macedonia) and South-Western Macedonia, the semi-mountainous environment and the climatic conditions have favored agro-pastoral activities including cereal cultivation and pastoralism (non-nomadic or transhumant) (Chang and Tourtellote, 1993;Wace and Thompson, 1914). The data obtained in this study is consistent with the suggestion that such a mixed farming agro-pastoral system formed the basis of the local economy.…”

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Diet and differentiation in the Roman province of Macedonia: A bioarchaeological approach

Vergidou

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The Roman Macedonian society was highly diverse and heterogeneous, as attested by textual evidence showing several hierarchies at play and many factors contributing to their reproduction. Among them, food holds a central place through the ostentatious display surrounding the royal symposia, the elite banquets, or during public festivals. However, food inequalities have so far been studied through condensed approaches that perpetuate oversimplified interpretations of the differences between the elite and the 'common' people, the wealthy and the poor. Inequalities and diversity within any society are much more complex and should be examined from multiple perspectives. Unfortunately, information about the dietary habits of ancient Macedonians is limited due to the paucity of available textual sources, which are often fragmented and biased, either referring to the region sporadically or written with a focus on the urban elite. As a result, any dietary insights gleaned from these sources, particularly regarding the diet of the common people, must be approached with caution. Bioarchaeological studies across the Roman Empire have shown that human skeletal remains could fill this gap by providing direct information for the diet of the people 'without name', and by revealing aspects of the social history that cannot be approached through other data (e.g., textual or mortuary record). This approach has been rarely adopted in Roman Macedonia.This study used dietary data obtained through macroscopic (palaeodemographic and palaeopathological -both dental and skeletal) and stable isotope analysis (δ 13 C and δ 15 N values from bone collagen) to explore the influence of the micro-ecology on the dietary choices of the inhabitants of two distinct but contemporaneous communities of Roman Macedonia (1 st -4 th century CE). It also examined whether status, sex, and age differences existed to gain insights on the dietary preferences of certain groups. The main research question of this study is: To what extent can dietary variation within and between particular communities of the Province of Macedonia be related to differences in the local micro-ecology of the sub-regions in which they resided, and/or to inter-and intra-site status, sex, and/or age differences? 5.2.4.3 Considering diet in relation to other frequently observed skeletal lesions .

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Sezonowe migracje pasterzy na Bałkanach: charakter, historia, transformacje

Luković¹

2016

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W trakcie długiego okresu historycznego głównym rodzajem pasterstwa na Półwyspie Bałkańskim były migracje sezonowe pasterzy z wielkimi stadami owiec (lub, w mniejszym stopniu, kóz) między letnimi a zimowymi pastwiskami. Podczas lata wypasano swoje stada na pastwiskach w wysokich górach, podczas gdy jesienią owce zaganiano do ciepłych nizin nadmorskich oraz do ciepłych kotlin i dolin rzek, w których było na tyle dużo trawy, że owce mogły przetrwać do wiosny i kolejnego okresu wegetacyjnego w górach. Działalność pasterska tego rodzaju ciągle ulegała zmianom. Był to długi, kilkuwieczny proces, który przechodził przez różne etapy i rozwijał się różnie w poszczególnych częściach Półwyspu Bałkańskiego (w zależności od konkretnych geograficznych, społecznych i politycznych warunków i okoliczności). Mimo wszelkich zmian, których doświadczyły w średniowieczu i podczas kilku stuleci rządów osmańskich na Bałkanach, wielkie sezonowe migracje pasterzy trwały aż do XX wieku. W zredukowanej i zmodyfikowanej formie istnieją do dziś. W niniejszej pracy rozważane są następujące kwestie: wpływ zmian politycznych od końca XVIII do początku XX wieku na sezonowe migracje pasterzy na Bałkanach; świadectwa podróżników i badania dotyczące Bałkanów związane z sezonowymi migracjami pasterzy; niedawne (reliktowe) strefy sezonowych migracji pasterzy na Bałkanach; charakter migracji sezonowych pasterzy na Bałkanach; organizacja społeczna i status pasterzy wołoskich na Bałkanach w średniowieczu oraz zmiany statusu i sposobu organizacji migracji sezonowych w okresie osmańskim. W związku z tym konieczne jest również wyjaśnienie pojęcia Półwysep Bałkański/Bałkany.

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The Nomads of the Balkans: An Account of Life and Customs Among the Vlachs of Northern Pindus.

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Mountain Landscape and Human Settlement in the Pindus Range: The Samarina Highland Zones of Western Macedonia, Greece

Mountain Landscape and Human Settlement in the Pindus Range: The Samarina Highland Zones of Western Macedonia, Greece

Diet and differentiation in the Roman province of Macedonia: A bioarchaeological approach

Sezonowe migracje pasterzy na Bałkanach: charakter, historia, transformacje

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