ABSTRACT
While topography certainly influenced the physical layout and landmark associations of pathways, and availability of natural resources justified efforts of opening or traversing them, the uses that humans made of the paths in turn influenced their interactions with, and transformations of, different portions of landscape through time. There are myriad reasons why people would take particular paths, but these may be classified into four broad behavioral categories: (1) movement, or the sequence of short-term, seasonal, cyclical, and multidirectional, everyday-life activities undertaken at spatially discrete locations; (2) journey, or prolonged, multipurpose travel; (3) pilgrimage, or bi-directional, single-purpose travel; and (4) migration, or unidirectional and permanent relocation. These categories are not mutually exclusive; on the contrary, they may combine sequentially, spatially, or functionally according to the specific strategies for exploration and colonization used by a given group.
