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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.
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.
Information and its Role in Hunter-Gatherer Bands explores the
question of how information, broadly conceived, is acquired,
stored, circulated, and utilized in small-scale hunter-gatherer
societies, or bands. Given the nature of this question, the volume
brings together a group of scholars from multiple disciplines,
including archaeology, ethnography, linguistics, and evolutionary
ecology. Each of these specialties deals with the question of
information in different ways and with different sets of data given
different primacy. The fundamental goal of the volume is to bridge
disciplines and subdisciplines, open discussion, and see if some
common ground-either theoretical perspectives, general principles,
or methodologies-can be developed upon which to build future
research on the role of information in hunter-gatherer bands.
Volume 5 in the Ideas, Debates and Perspectives series.
Six papers from a session on Late Paleolithic Environments and
Cultural Relations around the Adriatic held at the XV UISPP World
Congress (Lisbon, 4-9 September 2006). Contents: 1) New data from
the late Upper Palaeolithic site of Fondo Focone (Ugento, Southern
Apulia, Italy): the lithic industry of the B trench (Amilcare
Bietti and Emanuele Cancellieri); 2 Figuring out no-oneAes land.
Why was the Karst deserted in the Late Glacial? (Giovanni Boschian
and Fabio Fusco); 3) The Late Epigravettian in Istria. Late
Paleolithic colonization and lithic technology in the northern
Adriatic area (Darko Komso and Paolo Pellegatti); 4) The Late
Glacial aeGreat Adriatic PlainAe: aeGarden of EdenAe or aeNo ManAes
LandAe during the Epipalaeolithic? A view from Istria (Croatia)
(Preston Miracle); 5 Social and Cultural Integration in the Late
Upper Palaeolithic of the Western Balkans (Dusan Mihailovic); 6)
Social territories around the Adriatic in the late Pleistocene by
Robert Whallon.
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