Old versus New - timber analysis of Acre and Haifa in nineteenth-century Palestine

Auteurs :
LIPHSCHITZ, N.
BIGER, G.

Description :
Botanical identification of construction timbers is used to suggest different historio-geographical developments of two nearby Palestinian port cities, Haifa and Acre. Fragments of wood samples were taken from every wooden element of seventy buildings in Acre and forty-two in Haifa. In Acre, 75 % of the timbers were local or East Mediterranean in origin, mostly Cedar of Lebanon and Calabrian Pine. In Haifa, 60 % of the timbers were European, mostly Scots Pine, Common Larch and Atlas Cedar. The reasons for the differences are discussed. - (SLD)


Type de document :
Article de périodique

Source :
Historical geography, issn : 1091-6458, 1998, vol. 26, p. 177-186, Collation : Illustration, Références bibliographiques : 14 ref.

Date :
1998

Editeur :
Pays édition : Etats-Unis, Northridge, CA, California State University