The Pollino Archaeological Landscape Project. authors report on a new project, the Project (PALP) that focuses landscape and archaeological research of mountains. This range is located border provinces Basilicata Calabria in southern Italy part National Park, founded 1993 declared UNESCO Geopark 2015. objective PALP to reconstruct transhumance routes map related seasonal pastoral habitations fa...

In recent years, a clearer understanding of the complexities of pastoral development has been arising on the basis of work done by African and international researchers and development practitioners. They are refuting the causality of notions normally attributed to pastoralism, such as land mismanagement and degradation. They are also showing how extensive pastoral production has been underesti...

Abstract One of the most important systems sheep transhumance since Middle Ages in Spain occurred between mountains northern Leon and Extremadura Meadow lands – a 500-kilometre journey on foot. We analyse here an interesting collection thirty letters, written at turn nineteenth to twentieth century, sent by shepherds responsible for flock from wintering land owner animals. The only connection w...