Environmental Engineering Reference
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Plate 26.1
This remnant of Mediterranean evergreen oak
woodland in southern Spain occupies rocky ground, and
hence has avoided the clearance for wheat farming seen in
the foreground.
Photo: Ken Atkinson.
Figure 26.7
The chronology of prehistoric and historical
societies in southern Spain and their main food-gathering
activities.
farming, cereals, vineyards, orchards, vegetables; inland there is a long history of local
pastoral transhumance following traditional sheep trails (
canadas
), and of dry farming for
cereals, vines and olives. The net result of this prolonged exploitation of the wild
