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Structure agraire et économie rurale des plateaux tertiaires entre la Seine et l'Oise, Caen ( i 9 6 0 ) . , 'Evolution des bocages herbagers en Basse-Normandie', in Jäger, H. étal, (eds) (1968). , 'Les paysages ruraux de l'Aquitaine du sud-est', Revue Géographique des Pyrénées et du Sud-Ouest, 3 1 , ( 1 9 6 0 ), 233-76. , Les Campagnes toulousaines: étude géographique, Toulouse ( 1965). , 'La recherche française en matière d'histoire et de géographie agraires depuis un quart de siècle', Revue de Géographie de Lyon, 31, ( 1956), 319-27.

D. 1. Main refuge zones for man during the glacial periods. 2. Anthropological evidence of the northward expansion of western ArchaeoMediterranean folk. (Relatively great importance of blood group O. ) 3. Areas with high densities of Megalithic remains. 4. Protohistoric expansion of settlement from southern France. 5. Expansion of settlement of Proto-Celts and Celts from central Europe. 6. Regions characterized by alternate expansion and contraction of settlement in antiquity. 7. Lowland regions undergoing agricultural colonization during the early Middle Ages, settled by migrants from neighbouring regions.

Important contrasts in density at both regional and local scales existed between attractive, well-peopled areas and 'negative' environments. Loess-covered plateaux, limestone areas (provided that they had soil cover), river terraces, and hillslope areas provided a great variety of resources over a small area and supported large numbers of people. 31 'Negative' areas included the heavy soils of Bresse and the Limagnes des Terres Noires, very dry plateau areas, high areas with leached soils that were too poor for either pasture or cultivation (as in the Montagne Limousine), and wooded upland areas with little agricultural land (as in the Pre-Alps and the Haut-Jura).

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