ABSTRACT
What does it mean to know an environment? In today’s terms, what do we know about the spaces in which we live – about their resources, their unique characteristics, their limitations? How long did it take for us to learn them? How much of what we know comes from personal experience and how much is drawn from the experiences of others? When we leave an environment, what information do we take with us, and how and for how long do we apply that information in the new environments to which we go? And, from a material perspective, do the things we leave behind represent what we knew of our environments during our time in them?
