Colonization of unfamiliar landscapes : the archaeology of adaptation / edited by Marcy Rockman and James Steele.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

PART I. CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORKS -- Knowledge and learning in the archaeology of colonization / Marcy Rockman -- Human wayfinding and cognitive maps / Reginald G. Golledge -- Colonization of new land by hunter-gatherers: expectations and implications based on ethnographic data / Robert L. Kelly -- Tracking the role of pathways in the evolution of a human landscape: the St. Croix Riverway in ethnohistorical perspective / María Nieves Zedeño, Richard W. Stoffle -- Mining rules and landscape learning in the modern world / Donald L. Hardesty -- PART II. CASE STUDIES -- Landscape learning and the earliest peopling of Europe / Wil Roebroeks -- Social context of landscape learning and the lateglacial-early postglacial recolonization of the British Isles / Christopher Tolan-Smith -- "Where do we go from here?" Modelling the decision-making process during exploratory dispersal / James Steele, Marcy Rockman -- Deerslayers, pathfinders, and icemen: origins of the European Neolithic as seen from the frontier / Stuart J. Fiedel, David W. Anthony -- Entering uncharted waters: models of initial colonization in Polynesia / Atholl Anderson -- Weather is fine, wish you were here, because I'm the last one alive: "learning" the environment in the English New World colonies / Dennis B. Blanton -- PART III. ADVANCES IN THEORY AND METHOD -- Colonizing new landscapes: archaeological detectability of the first phase / Lee Hazelwood, James Steele -- Lessons in landscape learning / David J. Meltzer.

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The process of familiarization with and adaptation to unfamiliar landscapes has been integral to colonization and settlement throughout human history. This innovative and important volume presents the archaeological and anthropological foundations of the landscape learning process. Contributions apply the related fields of ethnography, cognitive psychology, and historical archaeology to the issues of individual exploration, development of trail systems, folk knowledge, social identity, and the role of the frontier in the growth of the modern world. A series of case studies examines the archaeo.

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