Detachment from place : beyond an archaeology of settlement abandonment / edited by Maxime Lamoureux-St-Hilaire and Scott Macrae.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Lamoureux-St-Hilaire, Maxime, editor.

Macrae, Scott, 1984- editor.

George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Land settlement patterns, Prehistoric.

Human settlements.

Human ecology.

Landscape archaeology.

Place attachment.

Physical Description:

xii, 268 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Louisville : University Press of Colorado, [2020]

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"-- Provided by publisher.

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-256) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

Other Format:

Online version: Detachment from place

ISBN:

9781607328148

1607328143

OCLC:

1120783553

Publisher Number:

99984216724