Talk:Deforestation during the Roman period

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[edit] This article looks like an undergraduate essay

This article looks like an undergraduate essay. The subject of deforestation is barely mentioned. The tone is one of low moral outrage. The topic would be very interesting if it included actual information about deforestation. The cititations list is way too short, and many important references are not cited. It appears to be composed of secondary source information only. Someone with more knowledge than I have of the primary sources should look at this.

Avram Primack (talk) 22:31, 8 March 2008 (UTC)

Review of the BBC source suggests most of the article is a simple paraphrase of the BBC article. Someone should do this article properly please.

Avram Primack (talk) 22:37, 8 March 2008 (UTC)

Article was produced as result of a project at University of Washington Bothell.Genisock2 (talk) 20:50, 21 March 2008 (UTC)

the current thinking in London by archaeologists is that the london landscape was denuded of forest before the Romans arrived. the evidence of this is te lack of dearth of aboral pollen. moreover there is evidence of resource management from early roman periods and considering that the trees felled where over 200yrs old in many cases, forest management must have been going on for some considerable time. towards the end of the Roman period dendrochrology becomes difficult as tree ring growth patterns are distorted by tree thinning practices that encourage growth. again forest management. however this does perhaps signal timber is a problem so the ideas on roman deforestation and economic impact are not invalid. But the whole premise of this theory is hardly canon ymmv. a more neutral piece is perhaps required Boris (talk) 14:19, 13 June 2008 (UTC)