Tavoliere delle Puglie
The Tavoliere delle Puglie (
The name Tavoliere derives from the Medieval Latin term Tabularium, a table on which Transumanza officials classified the areas devoted to sheep farming.[1]
In winter the plain is sometimes subject to floods by the Ofanto and the Fortore, while in summer drought is frequent.
The main centres, from north to south, are
.History
Neolithic farmers living in Tavoliere over 7000 years ago practiced ritual defleshing of the dead. Light cut marks on the bones suggest the bones were defleshed up to a year after death. They deposited the bones in Scaloria Cave. The human bones were mixed with animal bones, broken pottery and stone tools.[2]
During the Middle Ages the old practices of agriculture and fluvial regulation were lost, the plain being mostly devoted to sheep farming which, using apposite cattle-tracks, reached the Apennines' pasture lands through the Tavoliere. The lands was most marshy and unhealthy.
After extensive works of drainage, the plain is now highly cultivated. Crops include
Communes
The comuni in the Tavoliere delle Puglie are:
.References
- ^ "Trasformazioni paesaggistiche ed ambientali ad opera dell'uomo nel Tavoliere di Puglia" [Landscape and environmental man-made transformations in the Tavoliere delle Puglie] (PDF). Provincial library of Foggia (in Italian). p. 68.
- ^ Shaw, Garry (27 March 2015). "Stone-age Italians defleshed their dead". Science. AAAS. Retrieved 27 March 2015.
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