Historical Ecologies, Heterarchies and Transtemporal Landscapes

Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Table of contents
List of Contributors
Foreword
Historical Ecologies, heterarchies and transtemporal landscapes: Introductory perspectives
	References
Part I Ideologies and applications of Historical Ecology and Heterarchy
	1 Dialectic in Historical Ecology
		Historical Ecology in perspective
		Dialectical method
		Case studies in France and Florida: a brief summary
		Dialectic vs. other approaches
			Assumptions
			Structuration
			Phenomenology
			Relational approaches
		Conclusion
		Notes
		References
	2 Historical Ecology and longitudinal research strategies around Lake Mývatn, Iceland
		Acknowledgments
		References
	3 Gender, feminism and heterarchy
		Heterarchy and diversity in gender roles
		Intersectionality
		Disrupting archaeology
		A case study: heterarchy, gender and craft specialization
		Returning to disruption
		Acknowledgments
		Notes
		References
	4 “Can you hear me now?”
Heterarchy as an instrument and outcome of collective action in Iron Age and Medieval Europe
		A long debate
		Continuing threads
		A brief history of “Voice” and the origins of theories on political collectivity
		Braided ideas
		The continuum effect
		Finding voice: heterarchy and collective action in the archaeological record
		Textual sources
		Toponymic sources
		Hear me now! Oratory as artifact of voice
		Archaeological indicators
		A case study from the long Iron Age—the rise and fall and rise of voice
		Historic traces
		But still…why?
		References
Part II Identifying resilience
	5 Reconstructing African landscape Historical Ecologies: An integrative approach for managing biocultural heritage
		Great Zimbabwe hinterland
		Settlement trajectories and resource use
		Landscape management
		Lower Limpopo valley
		Adaptabilities
		Landscape management and heritage
		Elephant ivory trade over the longue durée
		Ecological consequences and environmental narratives
		Concluding discussion
		Acknowledgments
		Note
		References
	6 Resilience of agrarian land use practices in Burgundy, France: Evolving approaches to Historical Ecology
		Overview of research area
		Methodological considerations
		Agrarian land use practices in Burgundy
			Grain
			Cattle
			Vines
			Forests
			Ponds
		Synthesis of agrarian land use practices in Burgundy
		Conclusion: moving Historical Ecology from interdisciplinary to transdisciplinary objectives
		Acknowledgments
		References
	7 Resilience, heterarchy and the Native American cultural landscapes of the Yazoo Basin and the Mississippi River Delta
		The Yazoo Basin in northwestern Mississippi
		The Mississippi River Delta in Louisiana
		Conclusions
		Acknowledgments
		Notes
		References
Part III Social, settlement and territorial dynamics of the European Iron Age
	8 Mapping British and Irish hillforts
		Towards the Atlas
		Capturing diversity in the database
		Landscape prominence
		Scale of enclosing works
		Size of enclosed area
		Outcomes
		Conclusions
		Note
		Acknowledgements
		References
	9 Humanizing the western Cantabrian Mountains in northwestern Iberia: A diachronic perspective on the exploitation of the uplands during Late Prehistory
		Aims
		The Cantabrian Mountains
		Mesolithic and Neolithic: the earliest anthropogenic impact in the uplands
		Bronze Age: mining and the expansion of agrarian economy
		Iron Age and the sedentarization of local communities
		The breath of the mountains throughout late prehistory
		References
	10 The end of Iron Age societies in northwestern Iberia: Egalitarianism, heterarchy and hierarchy in contexts of interaction1
		Centralization, agglomeration, coalescence, complexity and social change
		New forms of communalism: large castros during the Republican Late Iron Age
		Hierarchical trends inside a “third space”
		Final remarks
		Note
		References
	11 Iron Age societies at work: Towns, kinship and territory in historical analogy
		Social models and analogies in Iron Age studies
		Late Iron Age networks: aggregations, assemblies and towns
		The “town and land” community of medieval Soria: a useful analogy for Late Iron Age societies?
		Conclusion
		Acknowledgments
		Note
		References
Part IV Ritual landscapes and monumentality
	12 Empires of stone, politics of shadow: The Historical Ecology and political economy of mortuary monuments in Mongolia (1500 bc–1400 ad)
		Monuments of the Mongolian Late Bronze and Early Iron Age (1500–209 bc)
		Xiongnu period monuments (209 bc–200 ad)
		Turk period monuments (550–830 ad)
		Mongol period monuments (1200–1400 ad) and discussion
		Note
		References
	13 A Landscape of Ancestors: Looking back and thinking forward
		Landscape of Ancestors: Tumulus 17
		“Unwrapping” the Early Iron Age grave
		The embodiment of mortuary place and landscape
		Conclusion
		References
	14 Civic-ceremonial transition at Lambityeco, Oaxaca, Mexico
		Lambityeco: archaeological background
		New perspectives on Lambityeco’s civic-ceremonial core
		Change during Lambityeco’s Late Classic occupation
		Conceptual implications
		References
	15 Sacred wells across the Longue Durée
		Spring sacrality
		Sacred springs and holy wells as archaeologically-resistant sites
		Holy wells as archaeological sites in Ireland
		Connected sacred landscapes
		Archaeology of sacred waters
		Acknowledgments
		Notes
		References
	Afterword: Integrating time and space in dynamic systems
		Heterarchy
		New views on the commons
		Human societies as Complex Adaptive Systems (CAS)
		References
Index