Table of Contents

The Loess-Covered Region West of the River Rhine, 5300 BC–AD 1000.- Sources.- The Beginning: 5300 BC–4900 BC.- Heirs to the First Farmers: 4900 BC–4300 BC.- Innovation and Expansion: 4300 BC–2650 BC.- The First Millennia of Agricultural Landscape.- Towards a More Complex Society: 2650 BC–50 BC.- of the Roman Empire: 50 BC–AD 407.- The Early Middle Ages: AD 407–AD 1000.- The Birth of the Cultural Landscape.- Summing Up Six Millennia of Agriculture.