James Steele (ed.)

The Colonization of Unfamiliar Landscapes

The Archaeology of Adaptation
Herausgeber: Rockman, Marcy; Steele, James

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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. Understanding initial colonization is essential to addressing questions of how and why we live where we do. This significant and wide-ranging collection of work moves the theme away from the chronological curiosities of firsts and oldests into a view in which it is a process with characteristics and lessons of its own.

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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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 276
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. April 2003
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 424g
• ISBN-13: 9780415256070
• ISBN-10: 0415256070
• Artikelnr.: 22044324

Autorenporträt

Marcy Rockman is a Lecturer in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Arizona, Tucson. James Steele is a Lecturer in the Department of Archaeology at Southampton University.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Tables and Figures List of Contributors Foreword Acknowledgements
Editors' Introduction Section One: Conceptual Frameworks 1. Knowledge and
Learning in the Archaeology of Colonization 2. Human Wayfinding Behaviour
3. Colonization of New Land by Hunter-Gatherers: Expectations and
Implications Based on Ethnographic Data 4. Tracking the Role of Pathways in
the Evolution of a Human Landscape: the St. Croix Riverway in
Ethnohistorical Perspective 5. Mining Rushes and Landscape Learning in the
Modern World Section 2: Case Studies 6. Landscape Learning and the Earliest
Peopling of Europe 7. The Social Context of Landscape Learning and the
Lateglacial - Early Postglacial Recolonization of the British Isles 8.
"Where Do We Go From Here?": Modelling the Decision-Making Process During
Exploratory Dispersal 9. Deerslayers, Pathfinders and Icemen: Origins of
the European Neolithic as Seen from the Frontier 10. Entering Uncharted
Waters: Models of Initial Colonization in Polynesia 11. The Weather is
Fine: Wish You Were Here, Because I'm the Last One Alive: 'Learning' the
Environment in the English New World Colonies Section 3: Advances in Theory
and Method 12. Colonizing New Landscapes: Archaeological Detectability of
the First Phase 13. Lessons in Landscape Learning Index