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Definition of Transhumance

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Transhumance

Literary usage of Transhumance

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Medieval Agriculture, the Southern French Countryside, and the Early by Constance H. Berman (1986)
"... V. PASTORALISM AND transhumance It has already been argued that Cistercian pastoralism in many cases must have provided the capital for the earliest ..."

2. Managing Resources in Erratic Environments: An Analysis of Pastoralist by Nancy McCarthy, Celine Dutilly-Diane (2004)
"Detailed information on monthly herd mobility indicates that herders practice both short- and long-distance transhumance, and that the cycle of mobility ..."

3. The Chrysokamino Metallurgy Workshop and Its Territory by Philip P. Betancourt (2006)
"If transhumance occurred in this region during the Bronze Age, it may have either begun or intensified at the end of the Early Bronze Age when new ..."

4. The Pleasant Land of France by Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle (1908)
"transhumance, which lasts for six of the summer months. This remark applies strongly to Hautes- Alpes, which stands first in the proportion of large ..."

5. Cover Crops in West Africa: Contributing to Sustainable Agriculture by Daniel Buckles (1998)
"Agropastoralists try to overcome dry-season feed shortages by practicing transhumance, which imposes more trekking on the herders and the animals. ..."

6. Landscape Archaeology in Southern Epirus, Greece 1 by James Wiseman (2003)
"... locations and elevations of the two caves, the differences in fauna and artifacts, and on a comparison with the pastoral transhumance activities of ..."

7. Planet Geographyby Stephen Codrington by Stephen Codrington (2005)
"Farming activities move to higher altitudes during summer and down to lower altitudes during winter - a process known as transhumance. ..."

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