Ancient Road Networks And Settlement Hierarchies In The New World
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Ancient Road Networks and Settlement Hierarchies in the New World
Author | : Charles D. Trombold |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 300 |
Release | : 1991-11-28 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780521383370 |
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The presence of ancient road networks in the New World is a puzzle, because they predate the use of wheeled transport vehicles. But whatever their diverse functions may have been, they remain the only tangible indication of how extinct American societies were regionally organised. Contributors to this volume, originally published in 1991, describe past studies of prehispanic roads in the southwestern United States, Mexico, Central and South America, paying special attention to their significance for economic and political organisation, as well as regional communication.
Spatially Integrated Social Science
Author | : Michael F. Goodchild,Donald G. Janelle |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 480 |
Release | : 2004-01-15 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780190288280 |
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Spatial analysis assists theoretical understanding and empirical testing in the social sciences, and rapidly expanding applications of geographic information technologies have advanced the spatial data-gathering needed for spatial analysis and model making. This much-needed volume covers outstanding examples of spatial thinking in the social sciences, with each chapter showing some aspect of how certain social processes can be understood by analyzing their spatial context. The audience for this work is as trans-disciplinary as its authorship because it contains approaches and methodologies useful to geography, anthropology, history, political science, economics, criminology, sociology, and statistics.
The Colonization of Unfamiliar Landscapes
Author | : Marcy Rockman,James Steele |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 276 |
Release | : 2003-12-08 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9781134520138 |
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This innovative and important volume presents the archaeological and anthropological foundations of the landscape learning process. Contributions apply the related fields of ethnography, cognitive psychology, and historical archaeology to the issues of individual exploration, development of trail systems, folk knowledge, social identity, and the role of the frontier in the growth of the modern world. A series of case studies examines the archaeological evidence for and interpretations of landscape learning from the movement of the first pre-modern humans into Europe, peoplings of the Old and New World at the end of the Ice Age, and colonization of the Pacific, to the English colonists at Jamestown. The final chapters summarize the implications of the landscape learning idea for our understanding of human history and set out a framework for future research.
Navigating the American West
Author | : Thomas A. Permar |
Publsiher | : The Western Sea Press |
Total Pages | : 152 |
Release | : 2015-03-14 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780990730606 |
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If you’ve ever stared in awe at the Rocky Mountains and wondered how early travelers could possibly traverse those peaks, then this is the book for you! In a time of smartphones, GPS devices, and voice automated navigation systems, it’s difficult to imagine crossing unknown desserts, mountains, and prairies with just a few ancient techniques and the heavens above. This history of movement across the American West brings three centuries of travel to life. It shows how four different cultures, in four different areas, migrated across this harsh and beautiful land: the native travelers on foot, Spanish conquistadors on horseback, Frenchmen by canoe, and American settlers by wagon. In this history, the “who,” “where,” and “when” take a back seat to the fascinating “how.” How did they find their way from place to place? How did they measure time, distance, and direction traveled? How did they provide themselves with food, water, and shelter—the barest necessities of human existence? Travel the myth and reality of the raw land that made the American West. Discover the depth of human bravery, determination, and ingenuity. And enjoy the adventure.
Landscapes of Movement
Author | : James E. Snead,Clark L. Erickson,J. Andrew Darling |
Publsiher | : University of Pennsylvania Press |
Total Pages | : 384 |
Release | : 2011-09-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9781934536537 |
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The essays in this volume document trails, paths, and roads across different times and cultures, from those built by hunter-gatherers in the Great Basin of North America to causeway builders in the Bolivian Amazon to Bronze Age farms in the Near East, through aerial and satellite photography, surface survey, historical records, and excavation.
Architecture of First Societies
Author | : Mark M. Jarzombek |
Publsiher | : John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | : 672 |
Release | : 2014-05-27 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 9781118421055 |
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“This book is the most comprehensively global and critically sensitive synthesis of what we now know of the material and socio-cultural evolution of the so-called First Societies. Written by a distinguished architectural historian and theorist, this truly remarkable and indispensable study shows how the material culture of our forebears, from building to clothing, food, ritual and dance, was inextricably bound up with the mode of survival obtained in a particular place and time...It is a study that will surely become required reading for every student of material culture.”—Kenneth Frampton Starting with the dawn of human society, through early civilizations, to the pre-Columbian American tribes, Architecture of First Societies: A Global Perspective traces the different cultural formations that developed in various places throughout the world to form the built environment. Looking through the lens of both time and geography, the history of early architecture is brought to life with full-color photographs, maps, and drawings. Drawing on the latest research in archaeological and anthropological knowledge, this landmark book also looks at how indigenous societies build today in order to help inform the past.
Complex Sciences
Author | : Kristin Glass,Richard Colbaugh,Paul Ormerod,Jeffrey Tsao |
Publsiher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 339 |
Release | : 2013-11-08 |
Genre | : Computers |
ISBN | : 9783319034737 |
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This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the Second International ICST Conference on Complex Sciences, COMPLEX 2012, held in Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA in December 2012. The 29 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from various submissions. The papers cover aspects on foundations and analysis of complex systems, complex biological systems, complex social systems, complex engineering systems.
Proceedings of the 4th International Congress of the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East 29 March 3 April 2004 Freie Universit t Berlin The reconstruction of environment natural resources and human interrelations through time art history visual communication
Author | : Hartmut Kühne,Rainer Maria Czichon,Florian Janoscha Kreppner |
Publsiher | : Otto Harrassowitz Verlag |
Total Pages | : 690 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Art, Ancient |
ISBN | : 3447057033 |
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The Congress hosted 611 registered participants from 38 countries. Its aim was to be an international forum for scholars and demands of Near Eastern Archaeology. From the four sections of the Congress, Vol. I: 1) The Reconstruction of Environment. Natural Resources and Human Interrelation through Time, 2) Visual Communication, [Vol. II: 3) Social and Cultural Transformation: The Archaeology of Transitional Periods and Dark Ages, 4) Archaeological Field Reports (Excavations, Surveys, Conservation) ISBN 978344705757-8].Together these volumes unite 77 contributions on about 1100 pages. They are arranged according to the sections. The rst three will be introduced by the key lectures which were given by Tony Wilkinson, Winfried Orthmann, and Roger Matthews. The resumes of these sections were provided by Wendy Matthews, Dominik Bonatz, and Diederik J.W. Meijer. The contributions cover many aspects of the main themes through time, from the Neolithic to the Hellenistic / Roman period, and offer interdisciplinary approaches to complex archaeological problems.