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An anthropology of landscape
An Anthropology of Landscape tells the fascinating story of a heathland landscape in south-west England and the way different individuals and groups engage with it. Based on a long-term anthropological study, the book emphasises four individual themes: embodied identities, the landscape as a sensuous material form that is acted upon and in turn acts on people, the landscape as contested, and it…
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- 9781911307433
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- 346 p.: colour, ill.
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- 333.95160941 TIL a
Beyond waters: archaeology and environmental history of the Amazonian Inland
This book is one of the outcomes of the project Cultivated Wilderness: Socio-economic development and environmental change in pre-Columbian Amazonia (http://www.cultivated-wilderness.org/). The project has particularly focused on the previously relatively unknown prehistory of the Amazonian hinterland. Our work has revealed that pre-Columbian settlements in the Santarém region in the State of …
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- 9789185245666
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- 129 p.; 22 cm.
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- 981.1 BEY b
Computational approaches to the study of movement in archaeology : theory, pr…
This book contains a collection of papers discussing questions related to space and movement in the framework of computational archaeology, landscape archaeology, historical geography and archaeological theory. The contributions, written by recognized experts in the field, show how the study of settlements pattern and movement has been dramatically transformed by the use of technology like Geog…
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- 9783110288384
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- vi, 137 p.
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- Topoi – Berlin Studies of the Ancient World/Topoi – Berliner Studien der Alten Welt
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- 930.1028 COM c
Landscape archaeology between art and science : from a multi- to an interdisc…
Researchers in landscape archaeology use two different definitions of landscape. One definition (landscape as territory) is used by the processual archaeologists, earth scientists, and most historical geographers within this volume. By contrast, post-processual archaeologists, new cultural geographers and anthropologists favour a more abstract definition of landscape, based on how it is perceiv…
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- 9789089644183
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- 525p. : ill.
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- 930.1028 LAN l
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