Peopling Past Landscapes

Author : H. Scott Butterfield,T. Rodd Kelsey,Abigail K. Hart
Publisher : Island Press
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2021-04-08
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781642831269

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Rewilding Agricultural Landscapes by H. Scott Butterfield,T. Rodd Kelsey,Abigail K. Hart Pdf

As the world population grows, so does the demand for food, putting unprecedented pressure on agricultural lands. In many desert dryland regions, however, intensive cultivation is causing their productivity to decline precipitously. "Rewilding" the least productive of these landscapes offers a sensible way to reverse the damage, recover natural diversity, and ensure long-term sustainability of remaining farms and the communities they support. This accessibly written, groundbreaking contributed volume is the first to examine in detail what it would take to retire eligible farmland and restore functioning natural ecosystems. The lessons in Rewilding Agricultural Landscapes will be useful to conservation leaders, policymakers, groundwater agencies, and water managers looking for inspiration and practical advice for solving the complicated issues of agricultural sustainability and water management.

Author : Kristen J. Gremillion
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1997-01-30
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780817308278

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People, Plants, and Landscapes by Kristen J. Gremillion Pdf

People, Plants, and Landscapes showcases the potential of modern paleoethnobotany, an interdisciplinary field that explores the interactions between human beings and plants by examining archaeological evidence. Using different methods and theoretical approaches, the essays in this work apply botanical knowledge to studies of archaeological plant remains and apply paleoethnobotany to nonarchaeological sources of evidence. The resulting techniques often lie beyond the traditional boundaries of either archaeology or botany. With this ground-breaking work, the technically and methodologically enhanced paleoethnobotany of the 1990s has joined forces with ecological and evolutionary theory to forge explanations of changing relationships between human and plant populations. Contents and Contributors: The Shaping of Modern Paleoethnobotany, Patty Jo Watson New Perspectives on the Paleoethnobotany of the Newt Kash Shelter, Kristen J. Gremillion A 3,000-Year-Old Cache of Crop Seeds from Marble Bluff, Arkansas, Gayle J. Fritz Evolutionary Changes Associated with the Domestication of Cucurbita pepo: Evidence from Eastern Kentucky, C. Wesley Cowan Anthropogenesis in Prehistoric Northeastern Japan, Gary W. Crawford Between Farmstead and Center: The Natural and Social Landscape of Moundville, C. Margaret Scarry and Vincas P. Steponaitis An Evolutionary Ecology Perspective on Diet Choice, Risk, and Plant Domestication, Bruce Winterhalder and Carol Goland The Ecological Structure and Behavioral Implications of Mast Exploitation Strategies, Paul S. Gardner Changing Strategies of Indian Field Location in the Early Historic Southeast, Gregory A. Waselkov Interregional Patterns of Land Use and Plant Management in Native North America, Julia E. Hammett

Author : Jeff Oliver
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0816527873

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Landscapes and Social Transformations on the Northwest Coast by Jeff Oliver Pdf

Nordamerika - Kolonialzeit - Landschaft - Raumkonzepte - soziale Konstruktion.

Author : Ian Hodder
Publisher : British Institute of Archaeology at Ankara
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2020-11-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781912090754

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Peopling the Landscape of Çatalhöyük by Ian Hodder Pdf

This volume reports on the ways in which humans engaged in their material and biotic environments at Çatalhöyük, using a wide range of archaeological evidence. This volume also summarizes work on the skeletal remains recovered from the site, as well as analytical research on isotopes and aDNA.

Author : Hans Peeters,Laura Kooistra,Daan Raemaekers,Bjø Smit,Karen Waugh
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2021-11-19
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9464260386

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Resurfacing the Submerged Past by Hans Peeters,Laura Kooistra,Daan Raemaekers,Bjø Smit,Karen Waugh Pdf

A scientific synthesis of 50 years of archaeological and palaeolandscape research on the prehistory of the Flevoland Polders, the Netherlands.

Author : Dan Hicks,Mary C. Beaudry
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 615 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2006-10-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781107495173

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The Cambridge Companion to Historical Archaeology by Dan Hicks,Mary C. Beaudry Pdf

The Cambridge Companion to Historical Archaeology provides an overview of the international field of historical archaeology (c.AD 1500 to the present) through seventeen specially-commissioned essays from leading researchers in the field. The volume explores key themes in historical archaeology including documentary archaeology, the writing of historical archaeology, colonialism, capitalism, industrial archaeology, maritime archaeology, cultural resource management and urban archaeology. Three special sections explore the distinctive contributions of material culture studies, landscape archaeology and the archaeology of buildings and the household. Drawing on case studies from North America, Europe, Australasia, Africa and around the world, the volume captures the breadth and diversity of contemporary historical archaeology, considers archaeology's relationship with history, cultural anthropology and other periods of archaeological study, and provides clear introductions to alternative conceptions of the field. This book is essential reading for anyone studying or researching the material remains of the recent past.

Author : Paul Slack,Ryk Ward
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2002-03-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9780191544750

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The Peopling of Britain by Paul Slack,Ryk Ward Pdf

This volume reviews the way in which, over the centuries, the evolving human presence in Britain has shaped the British landscape and how, in turn, the British landscape has moulded the development of British communities. From the beginnings of human settlement Britain has represented a final frontier for successive waves of colonists, each bringing its own set of cultural adaptations and its own ethos into the landscape. Over time both landscape and culture have matured from raw frontier to settled centre, moulded by the advent of agriculture, towns, and industry, and by streams of migration both within Britain and from outside. The chapters in this book - by archaeologists, historians, and geographers - present an interdisciplinary and accessible account of that long process. Together they trace the various phases of the story, showing how much of it has only recently been unearthed, and how much remains to be discovered.

Author : Paul Readman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2018-02-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108424738

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Storied Ground by Paul Readman Pdf

The relationship between landscape and identity is explored to reveal how Englishness encompasses the urban and rural, and the north and south.

Author : Ioannis N. Vogiatzakis,Theano S. Terkenli,Maria Gabriella Trovato,Nizar Abu-Jaber
Publisher : MDPI
Page : 163 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2020-05-15
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783039217748

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Landscapes in the Eastern Mediterranean between the Future and the Past by Ioannis N. Vogiatzakis,Theano S. Terkenli,Maria Gabriella Trovato,Nizar Abu-Jaber Pdf

Landscapes have long been viewed as ‘multifunctional’, integrating ecological, economic, sociocultural, historical, and aesthetic dimensions. Landscape science and public awareness in Europe have been progressing in leaps and bounds. The challenges involved in landscape-related issues and fields, however, are multiple and refer to landscape stewardship and protection, as well as to the development of comprehensive theoretical and methodological approaches, in tandem with public sensitization and participatory governance and in coordination with appropriate top-down planning and policy instruments. Landscape-scale approaches are fundamental to the understanding of past and present cultural evolution, and are now considered to be an appropriate spatial framework for the analysis of sustainability. Methods and tools of landscape analysis and intervention have also gone a long way since their early development in Europe and the United States. Although significant progress has been made, there remain many issues which are understudied or not investigated at all—at least in a Mediterranean context. This Special Issue addresses the application of landscape theory and practice in the Eastern Mediterranean and mainly, but not exclusively, reports on the outcomes of an international conference held in Jordan, in December 2015, with the title “Landscapes of Eastern Mediterranean: Challenges, Opportunities, Prospects and Accomplishments”. The focus of this Special Issue, landscapes of the Eastern Mediterranean region, thus constitutes a timely area of research interest, not only because these landscapes have so far been understudied, but also as a rich site of strikingly variegated, long-standing multicultural human–environmental interactions. These interactions, resting on and taking shape through millennia of continuity in tradition, have been striving to adapt to technological advances, while currently juggling with manifold and multilayered socioeconomic and climate–environmental crises.

Author : Elmer Harp,Elaine Groves Harp
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : 9780773525177

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Lives and Landscapes by Elmer Harp,Elaine Groves Harp Pdf

Places Harp's story of rural northern Newfoundland in historical and anthropological context.

Author : Christopher Tilley,Kate Cameron-Daum
Publisher : UCL Press
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2017-02-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781911307433

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Anthropology of Landscape by Christopher Tilley,Kate Cameron-Daum Pdf

An Anthropology of Landscape tells the fascinating story of a heathland landscape in south-west England and the way different individuals and groups engage with it. Based on a long-term anthropological study, the book emphasises four individual themes: embodied identities, the landscape as a sensuous material form that is acted upon and in turn acts on people, the landscape as contested, and its relation to emotion. The landscape is discussed in relation to these themes as both ‘taskscape’ and ‘leisurescape’, and from the perspective of different user groups. First, those who manage the landscape and use it for work: conservationists, environmentalists, archaeologists, the Royal Marines, and quarrying interests. Second, those who use it in their leisure time: cyclists and horse riders, model aircraft flyers, walkers, people who fish there, and artists who are inspired by it. The book makes an innovative contribution to landscape studies and will appeal to all those interested in nature conservation, historic preservation, the politics of nature, the politics of identity, and an anthropology of Britain.

Author : Tjeerd Hendrik van Andel,Susan B. Sutton
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 125 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2018-10-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780253044549

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Landscape and People of the Franchthi Region by Tjeerd Hendrik van Andel,Susan B. Sutton Pdf

"With the long-awaited publication of these three volumes we have the first thorough documentation of one of the most important prehistoric sites in the Mediterranean, that of Franchthi Cave in the Argolid Peninsula of Greece." —American Anthropologist " . . . the archaeological and paleoenvironmental data from Franchthi Cave are unique in providing a site-specific record of the cultural responses to great environmental changes." —Quarterly Research This volume describes the evolution of the landscape around Franchthi Cave over 25,000 years, its impact on prehistoric inhabitants, and theirs on it.

Author : Karen Metheny
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Garden archaeology
ISBN : 1621904679

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Landscape Archaeology by Karen Metheny Pdf

Author : E.B. Guttmann-Bond,S.J. Kluiving
Publisher : Amsterdam University Press
Page : 562 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2015-12-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9789048516070

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Landscape archaeology between art and science by E.B. Guttmann-Bond,S.J. Kluiving Pdf

Researchers in landscape archaeology use two different definitions of landscape. One definition (landscape as territory) is used by the processual archaeologists, earth scientists, and most historical geographers within this volume. By contrast, post-processual archaeologists, new cultural geographers and anthropologists favour a more abstract definition of landscape, based on how it is perceived by the observer. Both definitions are addressed in this book, with 35 papers that are presented here and that are divided into six themes: 1) How did landscape change?; 2) Improving temporal, chronological and transformational frameworks; 3) Linking landscapes of lowlands with mountainous areas; 4) Applying concepts of scale; 5) New directions in digital prospection and modelling techniques, and 6) How will landscape archaeology develop in the future? This volume demonstrates a worldwide interest in landscape archaeology, and the research presented here draws upon and integrates the humanities and sciences. This interdisciplinary approach is rapidly gaining support in new regions where such collaborations were previously uncommon.

Author : Michael A. Reed
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1984-01-01
Category : England
ISBN : 0709922655

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Discovering Past Landscapes by Michael A. Reed Pdf