Marking the Land investigates how hunter-gatherers use physical
landscape markers and environmental management to impose meaning on
the spaces they occupy. The land is full of meaning for
hunter-gatherers. Much of that meaning is inherent in natural
phenomena, but some of it comes from modifications to the landscape
that hunter-gatherers themselves make. Such alterations may be
intentional or unintentional, temporary or permanent, and they can
carry multiple layers of meaning, ranging from practical signs that
provide guidance and information through to less direct indications
of identity or abstract, highly symbolic signs of sacred or
ceremonial significance. This volume investigates the conditions
which determine the investment of time and effort in physical
landscape marking by hunter-gatherers, and the factors which
determine the extent to which these modifications are symbolically
charged. Considering hunter-gatherer groups of varying
sociocultural complexity and scale, Marking the Land provides a
systematic consideration of this neglected aspect of
hunter-gatherer adaptation and the varied environments within which
they live.
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