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© The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature 2024. Transhumance practices are a clear diachronic example of sustainable use of pastureland, taking advantage of climatic and environmental differences between summer and winter. Past uses of pastureland incorporated a more balanced use of natural resources, making it possible for local communities to exploit areas that would not otherwise have been used for agricultural purposes. In contrast, industrialisation, globalisation, and the collapse of the rural economy in the twentieth century led to a profound transformation of these traditional pastoral practices. We present an overview of transhumance from Northern Iceland, Scotland, England, the Italian Alps, and Eastern Spain. The implementation of seasonal schedules for use of pastures not only avoided overgrazing but assisted settling disputes between different social groups with access to the pastures. We examine archaeological and ethnoarchaeological evidence and compare five case studies.
Author(s): Vidal-Gonzalez P, Aldred O, Carrer F, Helgason G, Juliusson AD
Publication type: Article
Publication status: Published
Journal: Human Ecology
Year: 2024
Pages: ePub ahead of Print
Online publication date: 28/09/2024
Acceptance date: 20/09/2024
Date deposited: 12/12/2024
ISSN (print): 0300-7839
ISSN (electronic): 1572-9915
Publisher: Springer Nature
URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10745-024-00542-0
DOI: 10.1007/s10745-024-00542-0
ePrints DOI: 10.57711/cdcm-ey81
Data Access Statement: No datasets were generated or analysed during the current study.
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