Colonization of Unfamiliar Landscapes: The Archaeology of AdaptationMarcy Rockman, James Steele 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 archaeological evidence for and interpretations of landscape learning from the movement of the first pre-modern humans into Europe, peoplings of the Old and New World at the end of the Ice Age, and colonization of the Pacific, to the English colonists at Jamestown. The final chapters summarize the implications of the landscape learning idea for our understanding of human history and set out a framework for future research. |
Contents
Knowledge and learning in the archaeology of colonization | 3 |
Human wayfinding and cognitive maps | 25 |
expectations | 44 |
Tracking the role of pathways in the evolution of a human | 59 |
Mining rushes and landscape learning in the modern world | 81 |
Landscape learning and the earliest peopling of Europe | 99 |
The social context of landscape learning and the lateglacial | 116 |
Where do we go from here? Modelling the decisionmaking | 130 |