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1 online resource (321 p.) |
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Cover -- Book Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of figures and tables -- Acknowledgements -- 1. Steps towards understanding:routeways in practice, theory and life -- Background -- Introduction -- False paths -- Taking stock and steps forward -- Environmental and geoarchaeology -- Landscape archaeology -- Theoretical perspectives -- Anthropology: the contribution of Tim Ingold -- Landscape change and clues to movement -- Agency and niche construction: human and non-human -- Cognition: thinking through things -- How literature and art help us to think about movement |
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Timescale, dating and spatial scale -- Terminology -- Conclusions -- Chapter organisation -- 2. Walks in the temperate rainforest:developing concepts of niche constructionand linear environmental manipulation -- Introduction: why the American North-west Coast? -- The Douglas Map -- The area and its archaeology -- Trails and prairies -- Plant utilisation -- Elsewhere in North America -- Palaeoenvironmental perspectives -- The social significance of routes -- Conclusions -- 3. Niche construction and place making:hunter-gatherer routeways in North-west Europe -- Introduction |
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Anthropological perspectives -- Topographic factors and 'natural routeways' -- The wildwood, disturbance factors and routeways -- Woodland manipulation and management -- The broad spectrum revolution and niche construction -- Hunter-gatherer plant use -- Hunter-gatherer vegetation disturbance in Britain -- Case study: Kennet valley -- Case study: A Welsh model of river valley based mobility -- Continental Europe -- Mobility and sedentism -- Artefact areas and 'monuments' -- Isotopes and mobility -- Material culture and movement -- Conclusions |
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4. Footprints of people and animals asevidence of mobility -- Introduction -- Trace fossils -- Formation processes and terminology -- Recording methodology -- Dating and timing -- Identification and interpretation -- Associated animals -- Palaeolithic footprint-tracks on open sites -- Holocene hunter-gatherer-fishers -- Case Study: Mesolithic paths in the Severn Estuary -- Footprint-tracks in later prehistoric contexts -- Case Study: seasonal pastoralists in the Severn Estuary -- Other later prehistoric examples -- Footprint-tracks in the Americas -- Footprints: perceptual and symbolic aspects |
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Conclusions -- 5. Early farmers: mobility, site location andantecedent activities -- Introduction -- Case Study: the Ice Man -- Skeletal, isotopic and DNA evidence for Neolithic mobility -- Neolithic landscapes in Britain -- Neolithic monuments in Britain -- Case Study: Avebury Henge, Wiltshire -- Case Study: Stonehenge, Wiltshire -- Geological evidence for Neolithic mobility -- Conclusions -- 6. Wetland trackways and communication -- Introduction -- Wheeled vehicles -- Trackways dates -- Mesolithic trackways? -- Neolithic trackways in mainland Europe -- Neolithic trackways in the British Isles |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
| Subject |
Prehistoric peoples.
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Animal migration.
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Human beings -- Migrations.
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Animal Migration
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Animal migration
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Human beings -- Migrations
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Prehistoric peoples
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781789254037 |
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1789254035 |
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