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Author : Carole L. Crumley
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 666 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book Regional Dynamics written by Carole L. Crumley and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 666 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Carole Crumley
Publisher : Elsevier
ISBN 13 : 0323144020
Total Pages : 655 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (231 download)
Download or read book Regional Dynamics Burgundian Landscapes in Historical Perspective written by Carole Crumley and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2013-10-24 with total page 655 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Regional Dynamics: Burgundian Landscapes in Historical Perspective challenges traditional practices and approaches to regional studies by anthropologists and economic geographers. This book attempts to incorporate various fields such as natural sciences, social sciences, and humanities for a more comprehensive framework in regional studies. A region that has historical record of depth, i.e., Burgundy, France, is chosen for this book. The book begins with a chapter on theories that critique the past approaches to regional studies and introduces relevant concepts covered in the book such as landscape, sociohistorical structures, heterarchy, etc. The following chapters focus on the physical structures of the region, the archaeological excavations, settlement and land use during the Iron Age and Gallo-Roman times, multiscalar research design, and Roman period beginning from its conquest until the Middle Ages. A summary of important themes is given in the last chapter. This book caters to many students and professionals in various fields like anthropology, geography, archeology, history, economics, and ecology.
Author : Celeste Ray
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351167707
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (511 download)
Download or read book Historical Ecologies, Heterarchies and Transtemporal Landscapes written by Celeste Ray and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-04-23 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Interlacing varied approaches within Historical Ecology, this volume offers new routes to researching and understanding human–environmental interactions and the heterarchical power relations that shape both socioecological change and resilience over time. Historical Ecology draws from archaeology, archival research, ethnography, the humanities and the biophysical sciences to merge the history of the Earth’s biophysical system with the history of humanity. Considering landscape as the spatial manifestation of the relations between humans and their environments through time, the authors in this volume examine the multi-directional power dynamics that have shaped settlement, agrarian, monumental and ritual landscapes through the long-term field projects they have pursued around the globe. Examining both biocultural stability and change through the longue durée in different regions, these essays highlight intersectionality and counterpoised power flows to demonstrate that alongside and in spite of hierarchical ideologies, the daily life of power is heterarchical. Knowledge of transtemporal human–environmental relationships is necessary for strategizing socioecological resilience. Historical Ecology shows how the past can be useful to the future.
Author : Bettina Arnold
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521585798
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (857 download)
Download or read book Celtic Chiefdom, Celtic State written by Bettina Arnold and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An interdisciplinary group of contributors to this volume re-examine the structure and political development of Celtic states scattered across present-day Europe.
Author : Roderick J. McIntosh
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231528809
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)
Download or read book The Way the Wind Blows written by Roderick J. McIntosh and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2012-07-24 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: -- Robert W. Harms, Yale University
Author : Robert Costanza
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262515970
Total Pages : 518 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (625 download)
Download or read book Sustainability or Collapse? written by Robert Costanza and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2011-01-21 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scholars from a range of disciplines develop an integrated human and environmental history over millennial, centennial, and decadal time scales and make projections for the future. Human history, as written traditionally, leaves out the important ecological and climate context of historical events. But the capability to integrate the history of human beings with the natural history of the Earth now exists, and we are finding that human-environmental systems are intimately linked in ways we are only beginning to appreciate. In Sustainability or Collapse?, researchers from a range of scholarly disciplines develop an integrated human and environmental history over millennial, centennial, and decadal time scales and make projections for the future. The contributors focus on the human-environment interactions that have shaped historical forces since ancient times and discuss such key methodological issues as data quality. Topics highlighted include the political ecology of the Mayans; the effect of climate on the Roman Empire; the "revolutionary weather" of El Niño from 1788 to 1795; twentieth-century social, economic, and political forces in environmental change; scenarios for the future; and the accuracy of such past forecasts as The Limits to Growth.
Author : Jacob J. Climo
Publisher : Rowman Altamira
ISBN 13 : 0759116431
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (591 download)
Download or read book Social Memory and History written by Jacob J. Climo and published by Rowman Altamira. This book was released on 2002-10-23 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Social Memory and History, a group of anthropologists, sociologists, social linguists, gerontologists, and historians explore the ways in which memory reconstructs the past and constructs the present. A substantial introduction by the editors outlines the key issues in the understanding of social memory: its nature and process, its personal and political implications, the crisis in memory, and the relationship between social and individual memory. Ten cross-cultural case studies—groups ranging from Kiowa songsters, Burgundian farmers, elderly Phildelaphia whites, Chilean political activists, American immigrants to Israel, and Irish working class women—then explore how social memory transmits culture or contests it at the individual, community, and national levels in both tangible and symbolic spheres.
Author : William R. Fowler
Publisher : University Press of Florida
ISBN 13 : 0813057965
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (13 download)
Download or read book A Historical Archaeology of Early Spanish Colonial Urbanism in Central America written by William R. Fowler and published by University Press of Florida. This book was released on 2022-01-04 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this milestone work, William Fowler uses archaeology, history, and social theory to show that the establishment of cities was essential to Spanish colonialism. Fowler draws upon decades of archaeological research on the landscape, built environment, and architecture of Ciudad Vieja, a sixteenth-century site located in present-day El Salvador and the best-preserved Spanish colonial city in Latin America. Fowler compares Ciudad Vieja to other urban sites in the region and to the tradition of urbanism in early modern Spain to determine how the Spanish grid-plan layout was modified and implemented in the Americas. Using extensive archival material, Fowler describes how this layout reflected and perpetuated power structures that benefited the Spanish although the city’s Indigenous population was greater in number. Fowler analyzes recorded interactions between colonists, Indigenous peoples, and enslaved Africans to demonstrate the ways the cityscape affected the relationships among individuals and cultural groups. Offering an unparalleled view into a critical moment in Latin American history, this book offers new ways of looking at urbanism and colonialism as intertwined forces in the emergence of the early modern world.
Author : Kirsten Hastrup
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107028213
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)
Download or read book Climate Change and Human Mobility written by Kirsten Hastrup and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-08-23 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines general questions and particular cases of climate-change related mobility, and explores their implications for the social sciences.
Author : Linda France Stine
Publisher : Univ. of Tennessee Press
ISBN 13 : 9780870499760
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (997 download)
Download or read book Carolina's Historical Landscapes written by Linda France Stine and published by Univ. of Tennessee Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Featuring contributions by leading scholars, this book goes beyond conventional archaeological studies by placing the description and interpretation of specific sites in the wider context of the landscape that connects them to one another.
Author : Debra L. Gold
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
ISBN 13 : 0817351442
Total Pages : 177 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (173 download)
Download or read book The Bioarchaeology of Virginia Burial Mounds written by Debra L. Gold and published by University of Alabama Press. This book was released on 2004-12-26 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A long-ignored prehistoric mound building people By the 14th century more than a dozen accretional burial mounds—reaching heights of 12 to 15 feet—marked the floodplains of interior Virginia. Today, none of these mounds built by the nearly forgotten Monacan Indians remain on the landscape, having been removed over the centuries by a variety of natural and cultural causes. This study uses what remains of the mounds—excavated from the 1890s to the 1980s— to gain a new understanding of the Monacans and to gauge their importance in the realm of the late prehistoric period in the Eastern Woodlands. Based on osteological examinations of dozens of complete skeletons and thousands of isolated bones and bone fragments, this work constructs information on Monacan demography, diet, health, and mortuary ritual in the 10th through the 15th centuries. The results show an overall pattern of stability and local autonomy among the Late Woodland village societies of interior Virginia in which a mixture of maize farming and the collection of wild food resources were successful for more than 600 years. This book—uniting biological and cultural aspects of the data for a holistic understanding of everyday life in the period—will be of interest to ethnohistorians, osteologists, bioarchaeologists, and anyone studying Late Woodland, Mississippian, and contact periods, as well as middle range societies, in the Eastern Woodlands.
Author : Ismael Vaccaro
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139491725
Total Pages : 397 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (394 download)
Download or read book Environmental Social Sciences written by Ismael Vaccaro and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-11-11 with total page 397 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The relationship between human communities and the environment is extremely complex. In order to resolve the issues involved with this relationship, interdisciplinary research combining natural sciences, social sciences, and humanities is necessary. In this 2010 book, specialists summarise methods and research strategies for various aspects of social research devoted to environmental issues. Each chapter is illustrated with ethnographic and environmental examples, ranging from Australia to Amazonia, from Madagascar to the United States, and from prehistoric and historic cases to contemporary rural and urban ones. It deals with climate change, deforestation, environmental knowledge, natural reserves, politics and ownership of natural resources, and the effect of differing spatial and temporal scales. Contributing to the intellectual project of interdisciplinary environmental social science, this book shows the possibilities social science can provide to environmental studies and to larger global problems and thus will be of equal interest to social and natural scientists and policy makers.
Author : Rebecca Yamin
Publisher : Univ. of Tennessee Press
ISBN 13 : 9780870499203
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (992 download)
Download or read book Landscape Archaeology written by Rebecca Yamin and published by Univ. of Tennessee Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the editors note, "This volume includes many searching looks at the landscape, not just to understand ourselves, but to understand the context for other peoples' lives in other times, to unravel the landscapes they created and explain the meanings embedded in them.".
Author : Christian Isendahl
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0191653349
Total Pages : 576 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (916 download)
Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Historical Ecology and Applied Archaeology written by Christian Isendahl and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2019-01-10 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Oxford Handbook of Historical Ecology and Applied Archaeology presents theoretical discussions, methodological outlines, and case-studies describing the field of overlap between historical ecology and the emerging sub-discipline of applied archaeology to highlight how modern environments and landscapes have been shaped by humans. Historical ecology is based on the recognition that humans are not only capable of modifying their environments, but that all environments on earth have already been directly or indirectly modified. This includes anthropogenic climate change, widespread deforestations, and species extinctions, but also very local alterations, the effects of which may last a few years, or may have legacies lasting centuries or more. With contributions from anthropologists, archaeologists, human geographers, and historians, this volume focuses not just on defining human impacts in the past, but on the ways that understanding these changes can help inform contemporary practices and development policies. Some chapters present examples of how ancient or current societies have modified their environments in sustainable ways, while others highlight practices that had unintended long-term consequences. The possibilities of learning from these practices are discussed, as is the potential of using the long history of human resource exploitation as a method for building or testing models of future change. The volume offers overviews for students, researchers, and professionals with an interest in conservation or development projects who want to understand what practical insights can be drawn from history, and who seek to apply their work to contemporary issues.
Author : Ian W. Archer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521862578
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (625 download)
Download or read book Transactions of the Royal Historical Society: Volume 16 written by Ian W. Archer and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2007-03-12 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Transactions of the Royal Historical Society publish an annual collection of major articles representing some of the best historical research by some of the world's most distinguished historians. The volume includes the following articles: Potential Address: Britain and Globalisation since 1850: I. Creating a Global Order, 1850-1914; Land, Freedom and the Making of the Medieval West; The Origins of the English Hospital (The Alexander Prize Essay); Trust and Distrust: A Suitable Theme for Historians?; Witchcraft and the Western Imagination; Africa and the Birth of the Modern World; The Break-Up of Britain? Scotland and the End of the Empire (The Prothero Lecture); Report of Council for 2005-2006.
Author : Sarah M. Nelson
Publisher : Rowman Altamira
ISBN 13 : 9780759106789
Total Pages : 938 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (67 download)
Download or read book Handbook of Gender in Archaeology written by Sarah M. Nelson and published by Rowman Altamira. This book was released on 2006 with total page 938 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First reference work to explore the research on gender in archaeology.
Author : Sarah M. Nelson
Publisher : Rowman Altamira
ISBN 13 : 9780759110823
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (18 download)
Download or read book Women in Antiquity written by Sarah M. Nelson and published by Rowman Altamira. This book was released on 2007 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part One of Nelson's 'Handbook of Gender in Archaeology.'
