Marking the land : hunter-gatherer creation of meaning in their environment / edited by William Lovis and Robert Whallon.
Marking the Land investigates how hunter-gatherers use physical landscape markers and environmental management to impose meaning on the spaces they occupy. The land is full of meaning for hunter-gatherers. Much of that meaning is inherent in natural phenomena, but some of it comes from modifications...
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| Other Authors: | , |
| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY :
Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an Informa Business,
2016.
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| Series: | Routledge studies in archaeology ;
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| Summary: | Marking the Land investigates how hunter-gatherers use physical landscape markers and environmental management to impose meaning on the spaces they occupy. The land is full of meaning for hunter-gatherers. Much of that meaning is inherent in natural phenomena, but some of it comes from modifications to the landscape that hunter-gatherers themselves make. Such alterations may be intentional or unintentional, temporary or permanent, and they can carry multiple layers of meaning, ranging from practical signs that provide guidance and information through to less direct indications of identity or abstract, highly symbolic signs of sacred or ceremonial significance. This volume investigates the conditions which determine the investment of time and effort in physical landscape marking by hunter-gatherers, and the factors which determine the extent to which these modifications are symbolically charged. Considering hunter-gatherer groups of varying sociocultural complexity and scale, Marking the Land provides a systematic consideration of this neglected aspect of hunter-gatherer adaptation and the varied environments within which they live. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xiv, 289 pages) : illustrations. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781317361152 1317361156 9781315668451 1315668459 9781317361169 1317361164 9781317361145 1317361148 |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Source of description: Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on October 16, 2020) |