ABSTRACT
This innovative and important volume presents the archaeological and anthropological foundations of the landscape learning process. Contributions apply the related fields of ethnography, cognitive psychology, and historical archaeology to the issues of individual exploration, development of trail systems, folk knowledge, social identity, and the role of the frontier in the growth of the modern world.
A series of case studies examines the archaeological evidence for and interpretations of landscape learning from the movement of the first pre-modern humans into Europe, peoplings of the Old and New World at the end of the Ice Age, and colonization of the Pacific, to the English colonists at Jamestown.
The final chapters summarize the implications of the landscape learning idea for our understanding of human history and set out a framework for future research.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |2 pages
Part I CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORKS
chapter 3|1 pages
COLONIZATION OF NEW LAND BY HUNTER-GATHERERS
chapter 4|3 pages
TRACKING THE ROLE OF PATHWAYS IN THE EVOLUTION OF A HUMAN LANDSCAPE
part |2 pages
Part II CASE STUDIES
chapter 8|12 pages
“WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE?”
chapter 9|18 pages
DEERSLAYERS, PATHFINDERS, AND ICEMEN
chapter 11|11 pages
THE WEATHER IS FINE, WISH YOU WERE HERE, BECAUSE I’M THE LAST ONE ALIVE
part |2 pages
Part III ADVANCES IN THEORY AND METHOD