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| Material Type: | Internet resource |
|---|---|
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Marcy Rockman; James Steele |
| ISBN: | 0415256062 9780415256063 0415256070 9780415256070 9780203422908 0203422902 |
| OCLC Number: | 51042560 |
| Description: | xxiii, 248 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | PART I. CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORKS -- Knowledge and learning in the archaeology of colonization / Marcy Rockman -- Human wayfinding and cognitive maps / Reginald G. Golledge -- Colonization of new land by hunter-gatherers: expectations and implications based on ethnographic data / Robert L. Kelly -- Tracking the role of pathways in the evolution of a human landscape: the St. Croix Riverway in ethnohistorical perspective / María Nieves Zedeño, Richard W. Stoffle -- Mining rules and landscape learning in the modern world / Donald L. Hardesty -- PART II. CASE STUDIES -- Landscape learning and the earliest peopling of Europe / Wil Roebroeks -- Social context of landscape learning and the lateglacial-early postglacial recolonization of the British Isles / Christopher Tolan-Smith -- "Where do we go from here?" Modelling the decision-making process during exploratory dispersal / James Steele, Marcy Rockman -- Deerslayers, pathfinders, and icemen: origins of the European Neolithic as seen from the frontier / Stuart J. Fiedel, David W. Anthony -- Entering uncharted waters: models of initial colonization in Polynesia / Atholl Anderson -- Weather is fine, wish you were here, because I'm the last one alive: "learning" the environment in the English New World colonies / Dennis B. Blanton -- PART III. ADVANCES IN THEORY AND METHOD -- Colonizing new landscapes: archaeological detectability of the first phase / Lee Hazelwood, James Steele -- Lessons in landscape learning / David J. Meltzer. |
| Responsibility: | edited by Marcy Rockman and James Steele. |
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Abstract:
This volume presents the archaeological & anthropological foundations of the landscape learning process. A series of case studies examines interpretations of landscape learning from the movements of pre-modern humans into Europe, post-glacial migration into America & the English colonists at Jamestown.
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- Adaptation (Biology) -- History.
- Adaptability (Psychology) -- History.
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- Homme -- Influence de l'environnement -- Histoire.
- Adaptation (Biologie) -- Histoire.
- Adaptation (Psychologie) -- Histoire.
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- Landschapsarcheologie.
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