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Title Landscapes of clearance : archaeological and anthropological perspectives / edited by Angèle Smith, Amy Gazin-Schwartz.

Publication Info. Walnut Creek, Calif. : Left Coast Press, [2008]
©2008

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Description 1 online resource (221 pages) : illustrations, maps.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series One world archaeology series ; 57
One world archaeology ; 57.
Contents Landscapes of clearance: archaeological and anthropological perspectives / Angèle Smith -- Abandoned, avoided, expelled: the creation of empty landscapes / Amy Gazin-Schwartz -- Written off the map : cleared landscapes of medieval Ireland / Angèle P. Smith -- The past is another country: archaeology in the Limpopo Province, South Africa / Kathryn Mathers & Neels Kruger -- Driekopseiland rock engraving site, South Africa: a pre-colonial landscape lost and re-membered / David Morris -- Constructing the wilderness and clearing the landscape: a legacy of colonialism in northern British Columbia / Brenda Guernsey -- Ethno-archaeological study of clearance in Palestine / Juliana Nairouz -- The domestication of landscape through naming and symbolic protection among the Batswapong peoples of eastern Botswana: fullness and emptiness of landscapes in the eyes of the beholder / Phillip Segadika -- Enclosing the spirit / Peter Read -- New places for old: the re-inhabitation of cleared landscapes in northern Scotland / Olivia Lelong -- The devonshires held this trench, they hold it still: cultural landscape of sacrifice, the problem of the sacred ground of the Great War 1914-1918 / Jon Price -- Archaeological taxonomy, Native Americans, and scientific landscapes of clearance: a case study from northeastern Iowa / Larry J. Zimmerman & Dawn Makes Strong Move.
Summary This volume examines ancient landscapes that have been cleared of inhabitants and the social impacts of clearance on their populations.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Access Use copy Restrictions unspecified MiAaHDL
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL
System Details Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL
Processing Action digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve MiAaHDL
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Subject Landscape archaeology.
Landscape archaeology.
Ethnoarchaeology.
Ethnoarchaeology.
Landscape changes.
Landscape changes.
Landscape assessment.
Landscape assessment.
Cultural landscapes.
Cultural landscapes.
Geographical perception.
Geographical perception.
Chronological Term Geschichte
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Added Author Smith, Angèle.
Gazin-Schwartz, Amy, 1952-
Other Form: Print version: Landscapes of clearance. Walnut Creek, Calif. : Left Coast Press, ©2008 (DLC) 2008019850
ISBN 9781598747072 (electronic book)
159874707X (electronic book)
9781598742664 (hardback ; alkaline paper)
9781598742671
1598742671
1598742663