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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.
This volume deals with the pressing issue of uncertainty in
archaeological modeling. Detecting where and when uncertainty is
introduced to the modeling process is critical, as are strategies
for minimizing, reconciling, or accommodating such uncertainty.
Included chapters provide unique perspectives on uncertainty in
archaeological modeling, ranging in both theoretical and
methodological orientation. The strengths and weaknesses of various
identification and mitigation techniques are discussed, in
particular sensitivity analysis. The chapters demonstrate that for
archaeological modeling purposes, there is no quick fix for
uncertainty; indeed, each archaeological model requires intensive
consideration of uncertainty and specific applications for
calibration and validation. As very few such techniques have been
problematized in a systematic manner or published in the
archaeological literature, this volume aims to provide guidance and
direction to other modelers in the field by distilling some basic
principles for model testing derived from insight gathered in the
case studies presented. Additionally, model applications and their
attendant uncertainties are presented from distinct spatio-temporal
contexts and will appeal to a broad range of archaeological
modelers. This volume will also be of interest to non-modeling
archaeologists, as consideration of uncertainty when interpreting
the archaeological record is also a vital concern for the
development of non-formal (or implicit) models of human behavior in
the past.
This volume deals with the pressing issue of uncertainty in
archaeological modeling. Detecting where and when uncertainty is
introduced to the modeling process is critical, as are strategies
for minimizing, reconciling, or accommodating such uncertainty.
Included chapters provide unique perspectives on uncertainty in
archaeological modeling, ranging in both theoretical and
methodological orientation. The strengths and weaknesses of various
identification and mitigation techniques are discussed, in
particular sensitivity analysis. The chapters demonstrate that for
archaeological modeling purposes, there is no quick fix for
uncertainty; indeed, each archaeological model requires intensive
consideration of uncertainty and specific applications for
calibration and validation. As very few such techniques have been
problematized in a systematic manner or published in the
archaeological literature, this volume aims to provide guidance and
direction to other modelers in the field by distilling some basic
principles for model testing derived from insight gathered in the
case studies presented. Additionally, model applications and their
attendant uncertainties are presented from distinct spatio-temporal
contexts and will appeal to a broad range of archaeological
modelers. This volume will also be of interest to non-modeling
archaeologists, as consideration of uncertainty when interpreting
the archaeological record is also a vital concern for the
development of non-formal (or implicit) models of human behavior in
the past.
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.
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