Fort, Tower, or House? Building a Landscape of Settlement in the Shala Valley of High Albania

Fort, Tower, or House? Building a Landscape of Settlement in the Shala Valley of High Albania

This article presents the results of archaeological, (ethno-)historic, and ethnographic research in the Shala River valley of northern Albania. We argue that through time and in different periods of occupation - Middle Palaeolithic, Iron Age, Late Medieval, and Modern - the valley's residents h...

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Main Authors: Michael L. Galaty, Wayne E. Lee, Charles Watkinson, Zamir Tafilica, Ols Lafe
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of York 2010-01-01
Series:Internet Archaeology
Subjects:
archaeology
Albania
mountains
landscape archaeology
ethnohistory
archaeological survey
refuge societies
isolation
blood feud
oral customary law codes
Online Access:http://intarch.ac.uk/journal/issue27/galaty_index.html

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