| 单词 | landnam |
| 释义 | > as lemmaslandnam landnam n. [ < Danish landnam occupation of land (J. Iversen 1941, in Danmarks Geol. Undersøgelse 2nd Ser. 66); compare landnám n. at Compounds 3.] Archaeology the clearance of forested land for (usually short-term) agricultural purposes; esp. such an event as evidenced by sudden changes in pollen spectra. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > forestry or arboriculture > lumbering > [noun] > felling trees fallinga1425 felling1447 fell1531 fall1535 woodfall1588 slaughter1657 logging1706 tree-felling1759 fallage1788 slashing1822 fellage1839 wood-cutting1872 throw1879 bush-falling1882 drive1899 bushwhacking1906 clear-cutting1922 coupe1922 landnam1950 1950 F. E. Zeuner Dating Past (ed. 2) iv. 78 Iversen holds that these changes indicate the arrival of farmers, the phase of landnam or land occupation, that the charcoal comes from clearance fires. 1973 P. A. Colinvaux Introd. Ecol. vii. 108 A landnam event has been found in many parts of Europe, everywhere first dated at about 5000 years ago and suggesting that men quickly learnt the new ways from each other throughout the whole continent. 1980 K. Randsborg Viking Age in Denmark iv. 53 The first stage is the Neolithic landnam, which, for example, is earlier on the Danish islands than in, say, southern Norway. 1991 Antiquity 65 997/2 One can more easily envisage the strategy of midslope settlement and radial remuages as a late rationalization of a landnam. < as lemmas |
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