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Showing 1 to 20 of 44 for “"Landscape Archaeology"”.
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Understanding Strawberry Plains Through Landscape Archaeology
… houses and their dispersed pattern across the landscape and comparing this pattern to other postbellum sites. By using landscape archaeology and employing methods that consisted of archival research, the locating of additional structures, and conducting an architectural survey on the …
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The earliest church sites in Ireland AD 400 – 550: landscape archaeology and the process of conversion
By adopting a multi-scalar landscape archaeology approach, this study seeks to provide a new perspective on the introduction of Christianity into Ireland. A corpus of the earliest churches in Ireland (c.110 sites) is compiled and mapped. This shows a distinctive island-wide pattern of early church …
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Mounds In The Landscape: A Comparative Study Of Landscape Archaeology In English-Speaking Northwest Europe And North America
Humans have been intrigued by their surrounding landscape for centuries. Sometimes intrigue has led to particular manipulations of the land by groups of people, such as the building of mounds and other monuments. Thus, the study of past landscape use is an important part in understanding our own …
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Assessment of the CORONA series of satellite imagery for landscape archaeology: a case study from the Orontes valley, Syria
… known as CORONA that made it attractive for archaeology were its moderate cost and its historical value. The main disadvantages were its unknown quality, format, geometry and the limited base of known applications. This thesis has sought to explore the properties and potential of CORONA …
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Negotiating space: routes of communication in Roman to British Colonial Cyprus
Offering a social approach to landscape through the systematic study of communication routes, this study redresses the balance between previous social, historical and data driven archaeological studies of roads, paths and communication routes, while providing landscape survey projects with the …
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Early hominid habitat preferences in East Africa: Stable isotopic evidence from paleosols
… microhabitats across two Early Pleistocene landscapes. In collaboration with landscape archaeology projects at Olduvai Gorge (Tanzania) and Olorgesailie (Kenya), the stable carbon isotopic composition of paleosol (buried soil) organic matter and pedogenic carbonate is used in this thesis to …
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Traditional Practices and Cultural Resilience: Exploring Pastoralism in Central Sardinia and Celtic Diet Practices
… is comprised of two distinct works: Culture and Landscape, Continuity and Adaptation: Pastoralism in Central Sardinia, which investigate the impact of sheep and shepherd relationships on human mobility and the landscape in central Sardinia, and Food and Fight: Diet Practices as a Form of Colonial …
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Changing Identities in a Changing Land: The Romanization of the British Landscape
<p>This thesis will examine the changes in the landscape of Britain resulting from the Roman invasion in 43 CE and their effect on the identities of the native Britons. Romanization, as the process is commonly called, and evidence of these altered identities as seen in material culture have been …
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Living on the margin?: The Iron Age communities of Mananzve Hill, Shashi region, South-western Zimbabwe
In conventional reconstructions of the Iron Age archaeology of southern Africa, drylands have long been viewed as marginal landscapes that did not host any significant agropastoral communities in the past. Against this background, this study explores the discourse of dryland marginality in southern …
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Landscape and Society in Orkney during the First Millennium BC
… the creation of embodied space and place in the landscapes of Orkney during the first millennium BC. This aims to address the persistent obsession with architectural evidence in Atlantic Scotland which has dominated research into the period, and has come at the expense of considerations of later …
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Embedded Histories: Belonging in the Maghreb from 1st c. BCE - 4th c. CE
… evidence for historical analysis including landscape archaeology and burials, epigraphic data, and the literary records. For each source, I investigate how the evidence suggests a multi-layered identity, not one that simply aligns with traditional Roman, Greek, or Punic culture. These …
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Becoming Chacoan: The archaeology of the Aztec North Great House
… Drawing on theories of social complexity, landscape archaeology and materiality, I argue that this great house was a site of rapid transition and of a community drawn into the Chacoan world in very short order, and perhaps with unintended consequences.</p>
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The Local Landscape Research Framework
Archaeological research in landscapes should produce outputs and outcomes of value to the unique context that defines them. This includes the bespoke perceptions of intangible space as well as the physical place formed from a complex interconnected, multi-vocal and social narrative. However, many …
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Cohonina Social Organization And The Role Of Forts In Integration And Interaction: A View From The Pittsberg Community.
… of forts and their positions on the landscape using a combination of theory derived from settlement and landscape archaeology, deployed in a geographic information system work environment. A Cohonina fort site known as the Pittsberg Fort Complex, was placed in its community context …
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Dwelling among ruins: landscapes in the late 8th century BC Argolic Plain, Greece
… locations visible in the late 8th century BC landscape of the Argolic Plain in the northeast Peloponnese, Greece. It will be argued that, where ruined former habitation remains and burials were observed in the contemporary landscape, these locations were regarded as meaningful places. In the …
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Pictish Mounds and Norse Assembly Sites: Norse Settlement and Landscapes in the Orkney Islands from the 9th to 11th century
… Norse adapted and reshaped the existing Pictish landscape to suit their own cultural traditions and needs. Through the use of saga literature, archaeological material, and landscape archaeology, it examines how earlier sites—like burial mounds, Iron Age structures, and assembly places—were reused …
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Walking through time: a window onto the prehistory of the Yorkshire Dales through multi-method, non-standard survey approaches
… Apart from some sporadic academic interest, the archaeology of this region has yet to receive the level of scholarly attention it deserves. The research presented here involved an intensive investigation of an area near Grassington, Upper Wharfedale, UK. Detailed field analysis revealed a section …
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Lithic scatters and landscape: the Mesolithic, Neolithic and Early Bronze Age inhabitation of the lower Exe valley, Devon
… understanding the inhabitation of prehistoric landscapes. Theoretically it draws on the dwelling perspective and proposes that both the contents of lithic scatters (the stone tools and debitage of which they are composed), and their contexts (the locations in which they are found) are …
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Topography and flight: The creative application of aerial photography and digital visualisation for landscape heritage
… to reveal and interpret archaeological sites and landscapes. These methods afford a clarity and overview that has considerable advantages in heritage visualisation. Despite this, both technologies offer a view that is distanced from the grounded experiences that are integral to heritage sites and …
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Place on the Plains: Modelling Past Movement Along the Red Deer River
… and theoretical biases when undertaking a landscape archaeological investigation of movement by past people through one of the warmest and driest regions in the province of Alberta - the edges of the Red Deer River valley and adjoining coulees. Models of movement through the environment …
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