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Showing 1 to 20 of 32 for “"rural settlement"”.
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The rural settlement of Verlorenvlei in historical perspective
The rural settlement of Verlorenvlei (32°19 'S; 18°21 'E Cape west coast) has been placed within its historical context by a multidisciplinary study of the writings of early travellers up the Cape west coast; land ownership; land usage; human relationships within the settlement community; land; the …
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Medieval rural settlement: a study of Mid-Argyll, Scotland
… describes an approach to the study of medieval rural settlement in Mid-Argyll which involved a combination of archaeological survey and historic geography. The techniques used included archaeological fieldwork, excavation, geophysical survey, and the consultation of historic maps, documentary …
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Later prehistoric and Roman rural settlement and land-use in western Transylvania
… the nature and distribution of lower-order settlements in the pre-Roman and Roman periods, human impact on the local landscape and the changes which occurred as a result of the Roman occupation. Also, it addresses previous biases of interpretation through re-evaluation of earlier data and …
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The Isle of Wight in the English landscape: Medieval and Post-Medieval rural settlement and land use.
… academic study of Isle of Wight land use and settlement from the early medieval period to the nineteenth century and is fully referenced to national frameworks. The thesis utilises documentary, cartographic and archaeological evidence. It employs the techniques of historic landscape …
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Rural settlement contraction in the East Riding of Yorkshire c.1660-1760 with particular reference to the Bainton Beacon division
Although evidence of settlement contraction in the form of earthworks and empty house sites is to be found throughout England, the timing and causes of village 'shrinkage' have received little attention from historians. This thesis examines the occurrence and causes of settlement contraction in an …
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Water, Agriculture + settlement design in the arid lower Colorado River Basin : 3 new models
… models are designed and tested: an urban-rural oasis, an adapted rural settlement and an inhabited desert park. An analysis of historical hydrological alteration and agrarian/urban settlement processes in the Colorado River Lower Basin focuses on a region in a pivotal situation: Central …
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The Maya Footprint: Soil Resources of Chunchucmil, Yucatan, Mexico
… soil profiles sampled were compared to ancient rural settlement and remotely sensed images, such as AIRSAR (airborne synthetic aperture radar). Our objectives were to geographically determine the areas of agricultural importance and determine whether evidence of ancient agricultural …
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Urban re-vision: Philippi market space
… investigates a link between food security and rural to urban migration in the city of Cape Town. Philippi as a Gateway to the City of Cape Town for many people migrating from rural South Africa, especially people from the Eastern Cape is therefore a natural site for the investigation. The point …
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A phenomenological study of healing in a North Sotho community
… located in Naphuno district (a predominantly rural settlement comprised of an indigenous North Sotho speaking African population) in the Northern Province, were selected on the basis of the known sponsor approach for the purpose of this study. The interviews with the indigenous healers were …
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Digital Communication: perceptions of rural communities on the safety of e-commerce transactions
… by a student who lives in the heart of a rural community in South Africa and also attends a University which is based in a rural settlement. This study, based on the perceptions of rural communities on the safety of e-commerce transactions, investigates factors that influence adoption and …
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The assessment of the food security on the lives of the people at Manguzi
… these to the household food security of poor rural dwellers. Achieving household food security for poor rural households requires an integrated approach in terms of poverty eradication as well as deliberate efforts with regards to food production and distribution within a framework of …
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Impactos territoriais da criação do assentamento rural Dona Helena-Cruz do Espírito Santo/PB.
… arising from the creation of the Dona Helena rural settlement, located in Cruz do Espírito Santo (Paraíba), which is located in the mesoregion of Zona da Mata, a region where traditiona lly predominate a monocultivated production of sugarcane and therefore the large estates. Mesoregion of Zona …
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Bridging between the Contemporary and the Vernacular architecture
… to the Vernacular world of Tuti Island, the rural settlement. In addition, the project aims to provide a space that welcomes the bridge and to be a meeting plaza for both worlds. It is also intended to provide the Island with landmarks to be used as a point of reference. These landmarks from …
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Luta pela terra e pela sobrevivência na terra na microrregião de Sapé-PB: O assentamento zumbi dos palmares e o protagonismo dos jovens.
… microregion of Sapé-PB, highlighting the case of Rural settlement Zumbi dos Palmares, which emphasizes the role of young people in its construction/consolidation. This away, the search area is the N microregion of Sapé-PB and in her the Settlement Zumbi dos Palmares, located in the municipality of …
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Historic settlement on Unst, Shetland. An holistic study of abandoned settlements on Unst, Shetland utilising historical archaeology and prospection approaches
… the extent to which perceptions of historic settlement on Shetland are supportable. These perceptions cast long lived nucleated settlement as the normative traditional form of historic settlement, and dispersed settlements as short-lived exceptions to this norm. Historic settlement, in these …
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Socio-Economic Studies in the Territory of Antioch in the High Roman Empire
… fieldwork in the ancient city, the study of its rural districts to the North, East and West is ideal for investigating this ancient urban system.</p> <p>In this work, I present the results of ten years of research in the <em> khora</em> of Antioch conducted by the Amuq Valley Regional Project. …
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The Rural Settlements of Hellenistic and post-Hellenistic Central Asia: an Archaeology of Indigenous Life under Colonial Rule
… literature, as well as my own excavations of a rural farmstead at Bashtepa in western Uzbekistan, I situate indigenous life under colonial rule within the context of rural, non-elite agriculturally based economies. Methodologically this involves: first, the systematic GIS mapping of nearly 1,250 …
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Medieval landscapes and lordship in South Uist
… cultural landscapes, monuments and settlement patterns. In this thesis, the medieval period has been defined as that between c. 1000 and c. 1650. The historical evidence is considered along with archaeological evidence to create a holistic understanding of medieval social …
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Contested Ruralities: Housing in the Irish countryside
… debate on living in the countryside. The Irish rural housing debate is an illustration of wider rural change in a country with a strong tradition of farming on small to medium sized holdings, each owner-occupied. In addition, the media popularisation of the debate, rather than establishing the …
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