Landscapes of clearance : archaeological and anthropological perspectives / edited by Angèle Smith, Amy Gazin-Schwartz.

This volume examines ancient landscapes that have been cleared of inhabitants and the social impacts of clearance on their populations.

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Other Authors: Smith, Angèle, Gazin-Schwartz, Amy, 1952-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Walnut Creek, Calif. : Left Coast Press, ©2008.
Series:One world archaeology ; 57.
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Table of Contents:
  • Landscapes of clearance: archaeological and anthropological perspectives / Angèle Smith
  • Abandoned, avoided, expelled: the creation of empty landscapes / Amy Gazin-Schwartz
  • Written off the map : cleared landscapes of medieval Ireland / Angèle P. Smith
  • The past is another country: archaeology in the Limpopo Province, South Africa / Kathryn Mathers & Neels Kruger
  • Driekopseiland rock engraving site, South Africa: a pre-colonial landscape lost and re-membered / David Morris
  • Constructing the wilderness and clearing the landscape: a legacy of colonialism in northern British Columbia / Brenda Guernsey
  • Ethno-archaeological study of clearance in Palestine / Juliana Nairouz
  • The domestication of landscape through naming and symbolic protection among the Batswapong peoples of eastern Botswana: fullness and emptiness of landscapes in the eyes of the beholder / Phillip Segadika
  • Enclosing the spirit / Peter Read
  • New places for old: the re-inhabitation of cleared landscapes in northern Scotland / Olivia Lelong
  • The devonshires held this trench, they hold it still: cultural landscape of sacrifice, the problem of the sacred ground of the Great War 1914-1918 / Jon Price
  • Archaeological taxonomy, Native Americans, and scientific landscapes of clearance: a case study from northeastern Iowa / Larry J. Zimmerman & Dawn Makes Strong Move.