| Description |
1 online resource |
| Contents |
Introduction / Maxime Lamoureux-St-Hilaire and Scott Macrae -- An archaeological perspective on recursive place-making and un-making / Patricia A. McAnany and Maxime Lamoureux-St-Hilaire -- The leaving's the thing : the contexts of Mesa Verde emigration / Donna M. Glowacki -- When detachment is not complete : emplacement and displacement in Huron-Wendat ancestral landscapes / Jennifer Birch and Louis Lesage -- Cosmic abandonment : how detaching from place was requisite to world renewal in the ancient American Southeast / Kenneth E. Sassaman and Asa R. Randall -- A historical ecological approach to the differential abandonment of the Minanha agrarian population : a case study from the southern Maya lowlands / Scott Macrae, Gyles Iannone, and Pete Demarte -- Detachment from power : gradual abandonment in the Classic Maya palace of La Corona, Guatemala / Maxime Lamoureux-St-Hilaire, Marcello A. Canuto, Tomás Q. Barrientos, and Eduardo Bustamante -- Detachment and reattachment to place in the Bassar Region of northern Togo / Phillip de Barros -- Detachment as a cultural response to climate fluctuations in Early Bronze Age northern Mesopotamia : the enabling role of pastoralism / Michael D. Danti -- Entanglement and disentanglement at the medieval capital of Bagan, Myanmar / Gyles Iannone -- New approaches to detaching from place / Catherine M. Cameron -- Focus and resolution : challenges in archaeology and contemporary migration studies / Jeffrey H. Cohen |
| Summary |
The first comparative and interdisciplinary volume on settlement abandonment, focusing on materiality, ideology, environment, and social construction of space. Case studies from around the world and time periods, shedding light on underexamined aspect of settlement abandonment wherein sedentary groups leave behind meaningful elements of their inhabited landscape.--description provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on February 21, 2020) |
| Subject |
Land settlement patterns, Prehistoric.
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Human settlements.
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Human ecology.
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Landscape archaeology.
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Place attachment.
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Electronic books.
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inhabited places.
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human ecology.
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e-books.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
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Human ecology
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Human settlements
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Land settlement patterns, Prehistoric
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Landscape archaeology
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Place attachment
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Lamoureux-St-Hilaire, Maxime, editor.
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Macrae, Scott, 1984- editor.
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| LC no. |
2019039437 |
| ISBN |
164642008X |
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9781646420087 |
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