Ancestral Heaths

Author : Marieke Doorenbosch
Publisher : Sidestone Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2013-11-21
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9789088901928

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Ancestral Heaths by Marieke Doorenbosch Pdf

Barrows, i.e. burial mounds, are amongst the most important of Europe’s prehistoric monuments. Across the continent, barrows still figure as prominent elements in the landscape. Many of these mounds have been excavated, revealing much about what was buried inside these intriguing monuments. Surprisingly, little is known about the landscape in which the barrows were situated and what role they played in their environment. Palynological data, carrying important clues on the barrow environment, are available for hundreds of excavated mounds in the Netherlands. However, while local vegetation reconstructions from these barrows exist, a reconstruction of the broader landscape around the barrows has yet to be made. This makes it difficult to understand their role in the prehistoric cultural landscape. In this book a detailed vegetation history of the landscape around burial mounds is presented. Newly obtained and extant data derived from palynological analyses taken from barrow sites are (re-)analysed. Methods in barrow palynology are discussed and further developed when necessary. Newly developed techniques are applied in order to get a better impression of the role barrows played in their environment. It is argued in this book that barrows were built on existing heaths, which had been and continued to be maintained for many generations by so-called heath communities. These heaths, therefore, can be considered as ‘ancestral heaths’. The barrow landscape was part of the economic zone of farming communities, while the heath areas were used as grazing grounds. The ancestral heaths were very stable elements in the landscape and were kept in existence for thousands of years. In fact, it is argued that these ancestral heaths were the most important factor in structuring the barrow landscape.

Author : Marieke Doorenbosch
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1371438503

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Ancestral Heaths by Marieke Doorenbosch Pdf

Barrows, i.e. burial mounds, are amongst the most important of Europe's prehistoric monuments. Across the continent, barrows still figure as prominent elements in the landscape. Many of these mounds have been excavated, revealing much about what was buried inside these intriguing monuments. Surprisingly, little is known about the landscape in which the barrows were situated and what role they played in their environment. Palynological data, carrying important clues on the barrow environment, are available for hundreds of excavated mounds in the Netherlands. However, while local vegetation reconstructions from these barrows exist, a reconstruction of the broader landscape around the barrows has yet to be made. This makes it difficult to understand their role in the prehistoric cultural landscape. In this book a detailed vegetation history of the landscape around burial mounds is presented. Newly obtained and extant data derived from palynological analyses taken from barrow sites are (re-)analysed. Methods in barrow palynology are discussed and further developed when necessary. Newly developed techniques are applied in order to get a better impression of the role barrows played in their environment. It is argued in this book that barrows were built on existing heaths, which had been and continued to be maintained for many generations by so-called heath communities. These heaths, therefore, can be considered as 'ancestral heaths'. The barrow landscape was part of the economic zone of farming communities, while the heath areas were used as grazing grounds. The ancestral heaths were very stable elements in the landscape and were kept in existence for thousands of years. In fact, it is argued that these ancestral heaths were the most important factor in structuring the barrow landscape.

Author : Jan M. Van Mourik,Jaap van der Meer
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2019-11-27
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780444641090

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Reading the Soil Archives by Jan M. Van Mourik,Jaap van der Meer Pdf

Reading the Soil Archives: Unraveling the Geoecological Code of Palaeosols and Sediment Cores, Volume 19, provides details of new techniques for understanding geological history in the form of quantitative pollen analyses, soil micromorphology, OSL (Optically Stimulated Luminescence) dating, phytolith analysis and biomarker analysis. The book presents the genesis of a cultural landscape, based on multi-proxy analysis of paleosoils and integration of geomorphological, pedological and archaeological research results, which can be a model for geoecological landscape studies. Beginning with analytical methods for interpreting soil archives, the book examines methods for reconstructing the landscape genesis. The book presents strengths and weaknesses of applications, especially in relation to the data from case studies in the Netherlands. The final chapter of the book addresses landscape evolution in different cultural periods. This book offers an integrated approach to geoecological knowledge that is valuable to students and professionals in quaternary science, physical geography, soil science, archaeology, historical geography, and land planning and restructuring. Covers techniques including soil pollen analysis, radiocarbon dating, OSL-dating, phytolith analysis, biomarker analysis, archaeological analysis and GIS Provides a case study of results applied in the reconstruction of landscape evolution of SE-Netherlands Includes color illustrations, such as microscopic pictures, pictures of landscapes and soil profiles, pollen diagrams and dating graph

Author : Johannes Müller
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 379 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783031533143

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Perspectives on Socio-environmental Transformations in Ancient Europe by Johannes Müller Pdf

Author : Thomas Knopf,Werner Steinhaus,Shin’ya FUKUNAGA
Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2018-09-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781789690088

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Burial Mounds in Europe and Japan by Thomas Knopf,Werner Steinhaus,Shin’ya FUKUNAGA Pdf

This book brings together specialists of the European Bronze and Iron Age and the Japanese Yayoi and Kofun periods for the first time to discuss burial mounds in a comparative context. The book aims to strengthen knowledge of Japanese archaeology in Europe and vice versa.

Author : Cristiano Nicosia,Georges Stoops
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2017-10-23
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781118941058

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Archaeological Soil and Sediment Micromorphology by Cristiano Nicosia,Georges Stoops Pdf

Archaeological Soil and Sediment Micromorphology goes beyond a mere review of current literature and features the most up to date contributions from numerous scientists working in the field. The book represents a groundbreaking and comprehensive resource covering the plethora of applications of micromorphology in archaeology. Archaeological Soil and Sediment Micromorphology offers researchers, students and professionals a systematic tool for the interpretation of thin sections of archaeological contexts. This important resource is also designed to help stimulate the use of micromorphology in archaeology outside Europe, where the technique is less frequently employed. Moreover, the authors hope to strengthen the proper application of soil micromorphology in archaeology, by illustrating its possibilities and referring in several cases to more specialized publications (for instance in the field of plant remains, pottery and phytoliths). Written for anyone interested in the topic, this important text offers: Contributions from most of the world's leading authorities on soil micromorphology A series of chapters on the major topics selected among the most recurrent in literature about archaeological soil micromorphology Systematic descriptions of all important micromorphological features Special analytical tools employed on thin sections, such as SEM/EDS, image analysis, fluorescence microscopy, mass spectrometry, among others Numerous cross-references 400 illustrated full-colour plates The resource provides the most current and essential information for archaeologists, geoarchaeologists, soil scientists and sedimentologists. Comprehensive in scope, Archaeological Soil and Sediment Micromorphology offers professionals and students a much-needed tool for the interpretation of thin sections of archaeological contexts.

Author : Reinder Reinders,Geert Mulder
Publisher : Barkhuis
Page : 664 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2022-02-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789493194403

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Geschiedenis van Pesse (set) by Reinder Reinders,Geert Mulder Pdf

In het eerste deel van Geschiedenis van Pesse komen landschap en archeologisch onderzoek aan bod. In het tweede deel worden de marke, erven en bewoners behandeld.

Author : Michel Dabas,Stefano Campana,Apostolos Sarris
Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Page : 94 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2020-09-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781789697148

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Mapping the Past: From Sampling Sites and Landscapes to Exploring the ‘Archaeological Continuum’ by Michel Dabas,Stefano Campana,Apostolos Sarris Pdf

Proceedings of Session VIII-1 of the XVIII UISPP World Congress (2018, Paris); papers reflect on the need to develop sustainable and reliable approaches to mapping our landscape heritage, guided by the crucial concept termed the ‘archaeological continuum’.

Author : Dr. Frank Nwabueze Ihekwaba
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2016-02-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781504998239

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Struggle for Control of the Hinterland of the Bight of Biafra by Dr. Frank Nwabueze Ihekwaba Pdf

This book tells the story of the people of Igbo land at the middle of the nineteenth century, when Europe and Europeans held the dominant power over the lives and affairs of many peoples in Africa. This dominance, however, was never supposed to be total or absolute. Nevertheless, it managed to cast a constricting shadow—with its associated, if unhealthy, ambience—on the day-to-day lives of the people using the overwhelming military and economic power at its disposal at a time when Africans were either recovering from five hundred years of stupor brought on by its own dark ages (AD 1100–1600) or the shock and paralysis that followed the Moroccan (Mohamedan) and Spanish-mercenary-assisted mayhem and chaos of 1591 against the African kingdoms of West Africa. But the white man would soon lose most of his political and economic opportunities, and some of the absolute attributes he had mustered over the years the moment Britain and the other European races saw themselves as divinely appointed to right the wrongs of mankind. He would, from then on, render himself vulnerable to the tide of African enlightenment and progress, which was then building up everywhere, once the trade by which he had gained his ascendency over the other races of mankind began to decline. In addition, European ascendency witnessed an unusual reversal of luck when its residual strengths, recently boosted with the development of some newer types of weaponry—the Maxim machine gun in the UK (1883) and the Mauser Machine gun (1891) in Germany—weapons whose astonishing power and versatility had not previously been seen or tested in any battlefront, became more widely available to European and non-European troops. These, however, could not provide definitive answers to all the tactical and strategic imperatives of the developing new battlefront which European armies had sought. Nevertheless, these new weapons became celebrated after they were successfully used to hold the line and repel hordes of brave native fighters armed only with machetes and spears (South Africa) and bows and arrows (Kitchener’s Sudan), enabling British forces to claim easy victories over the native forces; several Victoria Crosses would be won on both battlefronts by the British army. The success of the campaigns clearly went to the heads of the victorious army commanders. Thus were sown the seeds that would grow, leading to the idea of invincibility of the white man in the battlefield and the tragic events that preceded the First World War (1914–1918).

Author : Laura Goodman Salverson
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2023-07-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780228018568

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Confessions of an Immigrant's Daughter by Laura Goodman Salverson Pdf

Born in Winnipeg to Icelandic immigrants in 1890, Laura Goodman Salverson embarked on a life marked by contradiction and cultural exchange. Her 1939 memoir braids the strands of her parents’ intellectual life in Iceland with a hardscrabble existence on the Prairies at the turn of the century, all against a backdrop of European settlement in post-Riel Manitoba and in colourful, self-assured prose. Leaving behind economic hardship, a difficult climate, and the threat of volcanoes, Lars Gudman was in search of stability for his family, but he was also ensnared by wanderlust. Travelling onward to Minnesota, the Dakotas, Selkirk, Duluth, and the Mississippi Valley, Salverson and her parents returned time and again to the Icelandic enclave in Winnipeg, a community struggling to adjust to life in Canada. In Confessions of an Immigrant’s Daughter Salverson makes real the political and cultural history of the twentieth-century North American west, even as she draws the reader into the inner life of a young girl growing up “hopelessly Icelandic” and finding refuge from discrimination and ostracism in the world of books. With a new introduction by Carl Watts situating the memoir and its prolific author in the literary canon, and reproducing Salverson’s original preface for the first time, Confessions of an Immigrant’s Daughter remains both a Canadian classic and an important social history of the experiences of women and immigrants at the turn of the twentieth century.

Author : T. L. Thurston,Manuel Fernández-Götz
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2021-10-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9781316515396

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Power from Below in Premodern Societies by T. L. Thurston,Manuel Fernández-Götz Pdf

This volume challenges traditional narratives on power, moving away from elite-centered models and focusing instead on the archaeology of commoners.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Electronic
ISBN : WISC:89062874086

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Goff-Davis Ancestral Lines by Anonim Pdf

Moulton Babcock Goff, son of Emmett Stull Goff and Sarah Antoinette Carr, was born 1889 in Madison, Wisconsin. He married (1) Agnes Hopkins Davis (d. 1963), daughter of Robert William and Helen Flora Hopkins Davis, 1913 in Madison, Wisc. She died in Los Angeles. He married (2) his first cousin, Cicely Sarah Goff (d. 1978), daughter of Arthur Middleton and Clara Belle Hall Goff, 1966 in Austin, Texas. The progenitor of this family, Richard Goff (b. 1763), was born in New London, Connecticut. He was a Revolutionary War soldier. He married 1782 in Norwich Polly Winchester, daughter of Amariah and Abigail Sawyer Winchester. Family lived in New York. The progenitor of the Davis family was, Dolor Davis, who was probably born in Marden, Kent, England ca. 1593. He married at East Farleigh in 1624 Margery Willard, daughter of Richard and Margery Humphrey Willard of Horsemonden, Kent. Dolor left England for Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1634. Margery and their three children followed him in 1635.

Author : Marian Olivia Heath Griffin
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2018-05-18
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9781984525710

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Cultural Gumbo, Our Roots, Our Stories by Marian Olivia Heath Griffin Pdf

There is no subject in the world more stereotypical than slavery of African Americans. This book is about four families: my mother and father’s families and my husband’s mother and father’s families, dating back to the era before slaves were brought out of Africa. Historically, our families evolved on a continuous basis and have proven to have been strong, resilient people, whose hopes and dreams were not easily squelched. We have researched the backgrounds of these relatives who were a part of the Atlantic slave trade because I want my children and grandchildren as well as the world to know who their ancestors were. I want them to know under what circumstances they came to America and finally became citizens with voting rights, educational and financial privileges, marital rights, and freedom. I want to clear up the misrepresentation and confusion of facts about slavery and the black man’s worth. Slaves over the last two thousand years have become a misnomer to our young people’s minds, and there is little knowledge of this period. Many civilizations and nations have been involved in slavery during the course of history. Contemporary records and archival documents were sought in an effort to reach greater heights of authenticity, enhance ancestral reality, and relate the facts to younger generations.

Author : David R. Fontijn,Arjan Louwen,Sasja van der Vaart,Karsten Wentink
Publisher : Sidestone Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : History
ISBN : 9789088901089

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Beyond Barrows by David R. Fontijn,Arjan Louwen,Sasja van der Vaart,Karsten Wentink Pdf

Europe is dotted with tens of thousands of prehistoric barrows. In spite of their ubiquity, little is known on the role they had in pre- and protohistoric landscapes. In 2010, an international group of archaeologists came together at the conference of the European Association of Archaeologists in The Hague to discuss and review current research on this topic. This book presents the proceedings of that session. The focus is on the prehistory of Scandinavia and the Low Countries, but also includes an excursion to huge prehistoric mounds in the southeast of North America. One contribution presents new evidence on how the immediate environment of Neolithic Funnel Beaker (TRB) culture megaliths was ordered, another one discusses the role of remarkable single and double post alignments around Bronze and Iron Age burial mounds. Zooming out, several chapters deal with the place of barrows in the broader landscape. The significance of humanly-managed heath in relation to barrow groups is discussed, and one contribution emphasizes how barrow orderings not only reflect spatial organization, but are also important as conceptual anchors structuring prehistoric perception. Other authors, dealing with Early Neolithic persistent places and with Late Bronze Age/Early Iron Age urnfields, argue that we should also look beyond monumentality in order to understand long-term use of "ritual landscapes". The book contains an important contribution by the well-known Swedish archaeologist Tore Artelius on how Bronze Age barrows were structurally re-used by pre-Christian Vikings. This is his last article, written briefly before his death. This book is dedicated to his memory. This publication is part of the Ancestral Mounds Research Project of the University of Leiden.

Author : S.V. Zharnikova
Publisher : WP IPGEB
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-15
Category : Art
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Hyperborea and the Aryan ancestral home by S.V. Zharnikova Pdf

Russia is a country of eternal changes and completely non-conservative, it is country beyond conservative customs, where historical times live, and do not part with rituals and ideas. The Russians are not a young people, but the old ones - like the Chinese. They are very old, ancient, conservatively preserved all the oldest and do not refuse it. In their language, their superstition, their disposition, etc., one can study the most ancient times. Victor von Hyun. 1870.