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Making one's way in the world : the footprints and trackways of prehistoric people /

"The book draws on the evidence of landscape archaeology, palaeoenvironmental studies, ethnohistory and animal tracking to address the neglected topic of how we identify and interpret past patterns of movement in the landscape. It challenges the pessimism of previous generations which regarded...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Bell, Martin, 1953- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford : Oxbow Books, [2020]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. Steps towards understanding: routeways in practice, theory and life
  • 2. Walks in the temperate rainforest: developing concepts of niche construction and linear environmental manipulation
  • 3. Niche construction and place making: hunter-gatherer routeways in north west Europe
  • 4. Footprints of people and animals as evidence of mobility
  • 5. Early farmers: mobility, site location and antecedent activities
  • 6. Wetland trackways and communication
  • 7. Barrow alignments as clues to Bronze Age routes
  • 8. Trackways in later prehistoric agricultural landscapes
  • 9. Maritime and riverine connectivity: the allure of the exotic
  • 10. A case study of the Wealden District in south-east England
  • 11. Conclusions: why routes matter.