ABSTRACT
In terms of imposing meaning on the landscape around them, hunter-gatherers are building information into features, both natural and modified by various forms of marking. This information is accessible by individuals and groups who have the knowledge to 'read' or interpret it. More likely when one speaks of alteration of space generally, or hunter-gatherer alteration of space, the notion is one of creating a marked and/or intentionally built environment. Such alterations may include more durable outcomes including marker trees, earthen mounds and earthworks, cairns, or accumulations of pictographs or petroglyphs. The natural landscape itself, unaltered, may similarly be perceived by individuals in a multitude of different ways. For mobile hunter-gatherers the toponymic systems in use may span multiple dimensions all of which coincide on a spatial location. Mobility, the individual and collective movement of hunter-gatherers, poses an interesting perspective on how one view and creates meaning.
