Abstract
Present Studies and History of Burning in Greece
Highlights
Greece, to those who know it only from archeological books and its ancient architecture, is associated with rocks, and bare mountains of white fine-granular marble, decorated by fine-sculptured temples, all built of white marble
Nessos and from Peloponessos to Chalkidiki was in previous times covered with productive forests of Pinus halepensis Mill., P. brutia Ten., P. pinea L., and Quercus ilex L., interrupted only by very dense Fluviisilvae and Paludisilvae around the mouth of big rivers like the Axios River in Macedonia or by deciduous oak forests growing in isolated stands
The author reports that in more than 60 percent of the fires the cause was carelessness, or inadequate control of stubble burning in neighboring wheat fields, that spread the fire over to forest ground fuel or brushlands
Summary
To those who know it only from archeological books and its ancient architecture, is associated with rocks, and bare mountains of white fine-granular marble, decorated by fine-sculptured temples, all built of white marble. In prehistoric times Greece was totally covered with thick forests, with the only exception of the summits of high mountains, rising above the timber line. Greek Mythology, on the other hand, says that Hercules killed the Kithaeronian Lion and the Elk of Artemis (Diana) in Peloponessos. This allows [one] to conclude that Peloponessos was covered with large forests, since lions and elk require a forest environment over large areas. Homer in his Odyssey calls the bare Mount Noriton in the island of Ithaca “dense leaved” and the island Zakynthos “forest covered”
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