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Making One's Way in the World The Footprints and Trackways of Prehistoric People.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Havertown :
Oxbow Books, Limited,
2020.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover
- Book Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- List of figures and tables
- Acknowledgements
- 1. Steps towards understanding:routeways in practice, theory and life
- Background
- Introduction
- False paths
- Taking stock and steps forward
- Environmental and geoarchaeology
- Landscape archaeology
- Theoretical perspectives
- Anthropology: the contribution of Tim Ingold
- Landscape change and clues to movement
- Agency and niche construction: human and non-human
- Cognition: thinking through things
- How literature and art help us to think about movement
- Timescale, dating and spatial scale
- Terminology
- Conclusions
- Chapter organisation
- 2. Walks in the temperate rainforest:developing concepts of niche constructionand linear environmental manipulation
- Introduction: why the American North-west Coast?
- The Douglas Map
- The area and its archaeology
- Trails and prairies
- Plant utilisation
- Elsewhere in North America
- Palaeoenvironmental perspectives
- The social significance of routes
- Conclusions
- 3. Niche construction and place making:hunter-gatherer routeways in North-west Europe
- Introduction
- Anthropological perspectives
- Topographic factors and 'natural routeways'
- The wildwood, disturbance factors and routeways
- Woodland manipulation and management
- The broad spectrum revolution and niche construction
- Hunter-gatherer plant use
- Hunter-gatherer vegetation disturbance in Britain
- Case study: Kennet valley
- Case study: A Welsh model of river valley based mobility
- Continental Europe
- Mobility and sedentism
- Artefact areas and 'monuments'
- Isotopes and mobility
- Material culture and movement
- Conclusions
- 4. Footprints of people and animals asevidence of mobility
- Introduction
- Trace fossils
- Formation processes and terminology
- Recording methodology
- Dating and timing
- Identification and interpretation
- Associated animals
- Palaeolithic footprint-tracks on open sites
- Holocene hunter-gatherer-fishers
- Case Study: Mesolithic paths in the Severn Estuary
- Footprint-tracks in later prehistoric contexts
- Case Study: seasonal pastoralists in the Severn Estuary
- Other later prehistoric examples
- Footprint-tracks in the Americas
- Footprints: perceptual and symbolic aspects
- Conclusions
- 5. Early farmers: mobility, site location andantecedent activities
- Introduction
- Case Study: the Ice Man
- Skeletal, isotopic and DNA evidence for Neolithic mobility
- Neolithic landscapes in Britain
- Neolithic monuments in Britain
- Case Study: Avebury Henge, Wiltshire
- Case Study: Stonehenge, Wiltshire
- Geological evidence for Neolithic mobility
- Conclusions
- 6. Wetland trackways and communication
- Introduction
- Wheeled vehicles
- Trackways dates
- Mesolithic trackways?
- Neolithic trackways in mainland Europe
- Neolithic trackways in the British Isles