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Fedick, Scott L. "Land Evaluation and Ancient Maya Land Use in the Upper Belize River Area, Belize, Central America." Latin American Antiquity 6, no. 1 (March 1995): 16–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/971598.

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In this study I examine local-scale associations between land resources and the density distribution of Maya residential sites for the prehistoric population maxima of the Late Classic period (ca. A. D. 600-900). Methods involve agricultural land evaluation following USDA guidelines, under assumptions of hand-cultivation technology. I give specific attention to the issue of concordance between the geographic scale of household agricultural production and the scale at which agricultural land evaluation is conducted. The focus is the upper Belize River area of Belize, Central America, where intensive archaeological survey and local-scale land-resource mapping provide the data necessary for a detailed analysis of ancient land-use patterns. The analysis reveals a strong and consistent relationship between prehistoric Maya settlement density and the agricultural productive capability of local soil types. For each land type, I discuss the amount of land available for each residential locus and probable cultivation methods used. I argue that the ability to identify clearly and quantitatively the association (or lack of association) between household settlement pattern and agricultural land capability is a necessary component of regional studies that seek to test models of Maya political economy and social change.
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Ford, Anabel, and Scott Fedick. "Prehistoric Maya Settlement Patterns in the Upper Belize River Area: Initial Results of the Belize River Archaeological Settlement Survey." Journal of Field Archaeology 19, no. 1 (1992): 35. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/530367.

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Ford, Anabel, and Scott Fedick. "Prehistoric Maya Settlement Patterns in the Upper Belize River Area: Initial Results of the Belize River Archaeological Settlement Survey." Journal of Field Archaeology 19, no. 1 (January 1, 1992): 35–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.1179/009346992791549012.

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LeCount, Lisa J., Chester P. Walker, John H. Blitz, and Ted C. Nelson. "Land Tenure Systems at the Ancient Maya Site of Actuncan, Belize." Latin American Antiquity 30, no. 2 (April 8, 2019): 245–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/laq.2019.16.

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A common property regime was established at the founding of the Maya site of Actuncan, Belize, in the Terminal Preclassic period (175 BC–AD 300), which governed access to land until the Terminal Classic period (AD 780–1000). This interpretation is based on urban settlement patterns documented through household excavation and remote-sensing programs. Excavations of all visible patio-focused groups in the urban core provided data to reconstruct residential histories, and a 60,621 m2 gradiometer survey resulted in a magnetic gradient map that was used to document buried constructions. Twenty ground-truth testpits correlated types of magnetic signatures to buried patio-focused groups and smaller constructions, including walled plots in agricultural field systems that were later exposed more fully through large-scale excavations. Combined, these methods provided data to reconstruct four correlates of land tenure systems: (1) the spatial proximity of residential units to land and resources, (2) diachronic changes in community settlement patterns, (3) land subdivision and improvements, and (4) public goods. Spatial analyses documented that houselots did not cluster through time, but instead became gradually improved, lending evidence to suggest the transgenerational inheritance of property rights in the Late and Terminal Classic periods.
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Vogelsang, Ralf, and Karl Peter Wendt. "Reconstructing prehistoric settlement models and land use patterns on Mt. Damota/SW Ethiopia." Quaternary International 485 (August 2018): 140–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2017.06.061.

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Leighton, Robert. "Later prehistoric settlement patterns in Sicily: old paradigms and new surveys." European Journal of Archaeology 8, no. 3 (2005): 261–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1461957105076066.

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Whilst Sicily is the largest and perhaps most geographically diverse island in the Mediterranean, archaeological survey has been slow to develop there and has had little impact on general accounts of Sicilian prehistory. Discussions of prehistoric settlement distribution in the island have to contend with uneven data obtained by different means and limited evidence for past land-use and environmental change. Nevertheless, survey data point to contrasting settlement patterns between the fourth and first millennia BC (Copper, Bronze and Iron Ages), which can usefully be compared with information from conventional (non-survey) distribution maps. Surveys have the potential to promote new accounts of Sicilian prehistory in which traditional historicist paradigms are at least complemented by those which place a stronger emphasis on relationships or dynamics within the specific island context.
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Fedick, Scott L. "Ancient Maya Agricultural Terracing in the Upper Belize River Area." Ancient Mesoamerica 5, no. 1 (1994): 107–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0956536100001073.

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AbstractRecent archaeological surveys in the upper Belize River area have documented high overall settlement densities, albeit with an uneven distribution. Analyses have defined clear relationships between the distribution of land resources of varying agricultural capability and the density of ancient residential sites. However, these investigations did not provide direct physical evidence for cultivation techniques, particularly for the intensive methods that were probably employed in areas of prime land resources and high settlement density. The discovery in 1991 of terracing in direct association with a residential site prompted further investigations into the distribution of terrace systems throughout the area. The development of a computerized Geographic Information System (GIS) facilitated the prediction of terrace distributions on the basis of slope, soil type, and the parent material from which soils form. Initial field testing of the terrace-distribution model in 1992 resulted in the identification of 13 terrace systems, all situated on low slopes in soils developed on consolidated limestone. A variety of terrace systems were identified, including small, intricate patterns of “box terraces,” contour terraces, and cross-channel terraces. Locational data on these systems were used to modify the terrace-distribution model in anticipation of further field investigations. The results allow new insights into the structure of ancient Maya land use and settlement in the area, while illustrating a method that can be used to quantify landscape characteristics, thereby facilitating comparisons between local areas within a regional context.
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Sadr, Karim. "Settlement Patterns and Land Use in the Late Prehistoric Southern Atbai, East Central Sudan." Journal of Field Archaeology 15, no. 4 (1988): 381. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/530043.

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Sadr, Karim. "Settlement Patterns and Land Use in the Late Prehistoric Southern Atbai, East Central Sudan." Journal of Field Archaeology 15, no. 4 (January 1988): 381–401. http://dx.doi.org/10.1179/jfa.1988.15.4.381.

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Chapman, John, and Robert Shiel. "Social Change and Land Use in Prehistoric Dalmatia." Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society 59 (1993): 61–104. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0079497x00003753.

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The Neothermal Dalmatia Project is an Anglo-Yugoslav collaborative project whose aims are to define and explain changes in physical environment, settlement pattern and social structure in north Dalmatia over the last 12 millennia. The Project's fieldwork included archaeological field survey, analytical survey, trial excavation of Neolithic, Copper Age, Bronze Age, Iron Age and Roman sites, soil and land use mapping, ethnographic survey of modern villages and hamlets and palaeoenvironmental reconstructions (pollen, sediments, sea-level change, etc.). Within the long-term constraints of a limestone-dominated study region, the short-term events and medium-term agrarian and demographic cycles of the Dalmatian social groups have been studied in an inter-disciplinary manner. In this article, an attempt is made to examine the environmental and archaeological data within the frameworks of four explanatory models: the Land Use Capability (LUC) Model, the Cyclic Intensification–Deintensification (CID) Model, the Communal Ownership of Property (COP) Model and the Arenas of Social Power (ASP) Model. In the LUC model, reconstructions of past land use capabilities are used to derive postdictions of the most likely settlement patterns for successive periods (Neolithic–Roman); a high degree of postdictive success is met. In the CID model, Bintliff's model of cyclic variations in agricultural intensification and private land-holding is refined and tested against survey and excavation data. In the COP model, Fleming's model of communal land ownership is tested against similar data, with contrasting results. Finally, the ASP model is used to explain the expanded range of arenas of social power which develops from a place-based worldview in the early farming period. The conjoint use of these four explanatory models, which operate at different scales of duration, provides a broader basis for understanding changes in the prehistory of north Dalmatia in the Neothermal period than had previously been constructed.
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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Land settlement patterns, Prehistoric – Belize"

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Pyburn, Karen Anne, and Karen Anne Pyburn. "The settlement of Nohmul: Development of a prehispanic Maya community in northern Belize." Diss., The University of Arizona, 1988. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/184624.

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The study of prehistoric Maya settlements has been hampered by simplistic views of cultural ecology, over generalized ethnographic analogy, and a lack of attention to both natural and cultural site formation processes. As a result, Mayanists have tended to expect very little variety in archaeological features and have assumed cultural uniformity over wide ranges of time and space. Traditional research designs support these assumptions. Current knowledge of Maya social organization suggests that more structural variety may occur in Maya archaeological sites than is ordinarily discovered. Some of this variation is evidenced by features not currently visible on the ground-surface. The Nohmul Settlement pattern project employed a "purposive" sampling design to search for settlement variation over time and space. Several assumptions about surface-subsurface relationships were tested. Surface indications were not found to outline subsurface variety. Excavating at intervals from site center in both visible and "invisible" features, showed that the Nohmul community was affected by both centralizing and decentralizing influences and grouped into residential clusters resembling neighborhoods. The degree of centralization and the location of the clusters, as well as some of their characteristics, changed notably over Nohmul's 2500 year occupation.
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Kinkella, Andrew James. "Draw of sacred water an archaeological survey of the ancient Maya settlement at the Cara Blanca pools, Belize /." Diss., UC access only, 2009. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?index=48&did=1907248551&SrchMode=1&sid=2&Fmt=7&retrieveGroup=0&VType=PQD&VInst=PROD&RQT=309&VName=PQD&TS=1270146334&clientId=48051.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of California, Riverside, 2009.
Includes abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 215-235). Issued in print and online. Available via ProQuest Digital Dissertations.
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Winthrop, Kathryn R. "Prehistoric settlement patterns in southwest Oregon." Thesis, View full-text version online through Southern Oregon Digital Archives, 1993. http://soda.sou.edu/awdata/030904f1.pdf.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Oregon, 1993.
Typescript. Includes vita and abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 256-275). Also available via Internet as PDF file through Southern Oregon Digital Archives: http://soda.sou.edu. Search First Nations/Tribal Collection.
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Linse, Angela R. "Settlement change documentation and analysis : a case study from the Mogollon region of the American Southwest /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 1999. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/6545.

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Canaday, Timothy W. "Prehistoric alpine hunting patterns in the Great Basin /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 1997. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/6554.

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Church, Flora. "An inquiry into the transition from late woodland to late prehistoric cultures in the central Scioto Valley, Ohio circa A.D. 500 to A.D. 1250." Connect to resource, 1987. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1232541325.

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Hughes, Susan S. "Beyond the altithermal : the role of climate change in the prehistoric adaptations of northwestern Wyoming /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/6513.

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Levi, Laura Jane. "Prehispanic residence and community at San Estevan, Belize." Diss., The University of Arizona, 1993. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/186475.

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Research at the site of San Estevan, Belize begins with the premise that more serious attention must be paid to the significance of residential variability in archaeological modelings of the lowland Maya. A classification of structure groupings is used to track the distribution of San Estevan's diverse residential arrangements across the site. Norms of social structure and economic inequality prove inadequate frameworks to account for the spatial and temporal variation manifest by San Estevan's residential classes, nor do they help to explain the spatial regularities underlying the distributions of these classes. I suggest, instead, that the site's residential units best effect divergent organizational strategies adopted by San Estevan's prehispanic domestic groups. Whereas diffuse political authority, impoverished political economies, and kingroup self-sufficiency traditionally have been invoked to account for Maya residential patterns, domestic strategies at San Estevan gained their shape directly in relation to the functions housed in the community's precincts of monumental architecture. I conclude that prehispanic Maya residential distributions formed through stringent economic and political entailments of community life.
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Prince, Paul. "Settlement, trade and social ranking at Kitwanga, B.C." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1998. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape10/PQDD_0005/NQ42869.pdf.

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Creel, Darrell Glenn, and Darrell Glenn Creel. "A STUDY OF PREHISTORIC BURNED ROCK MIDDENS IN WEST CENTRAL TEXAS." Diss., The University of Arizona, 1986. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/187540.

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Burned rock middens large accumulations of thermally fractured rock are among the most common features in Archaic archaeolgical sites in Central Texas. With a sample of 1654 archaeological sites, the distribution of burned rock midden sites is compared with the occurrence of live oak savanna in an area of approximately 55,800 square kilometers in west central Texas. The objective of this distributional analysis is a preliminary assessment of the hypothesis that burned rock middens relate to prehistoric exploitation of acorns. The similarity of the distribution of burned rock middens to both the modern and postulated Archaic distribution of live oak savanna supports this hypothesis. On this basis, it is Inferred that acorns from Quercus fusiformis and perhaps Q. texana and Q. sinuata, var. breviloba were major foods during at least part of the Archaic period. Burned rock middens are suggested to be accumulations mainly of discarded boiling stone fragments broken from use in stone-boiling of acorn foods. Data on modern areas of live oak savanna are used to show that the acorn production Is quite substantial in some portions of Central Texas and is sufficient in most years to support a population density of 1-3 persons per square kilometer for at least half a year. The implications of this potential are evaluated, especially in regard to the kinds of archaeological remains found at burned rock midden sites. The similarity of the distributions of burned rock middens and live oak savanna suggest that the modern general occurrence of live oak savanna is little changed from that 5000 years ago. The possible loss of oaks in one portion of the study area may reflect either short or long periods of drying conditions at some time since 5000 BP.
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Books on the topic "Land settlement patterns, Prehistoric – Belize"

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Hyslop, John. Inka settlement planning. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1990.

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Cedeño, Jorge Sachun. Patrones de asentamiento en le proceso cultural prehispánico del valle de Cajamarca (primera aproximación). Trujillo, [Peru]: Editorial Sudamérica, 1986.

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Casa, Philippe Della. Landschaften, Siedlungen, Ressourcen: Langzeitszenarien menschlicher Aktivität in ausgewählten alpinen Gebieten der Schweiz, Italiens und Frankreichs = Paysages, habitats, ressources : scénarios à long terme de l'activité humaine dans quelques régions alpines de la Suisse, de l'Italie et de la France = Paesaggi, insediamenti, risorse : scenari a lungo termine dell'attività umana in alcune regioni alpine della Svizzera, dell'Italia e della Francia. Montagnac: Monique Mergoil, 2002.

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Hoque, Md Mozammel. Prehistoric and protohistoric settlement pattern of Bengal delta. Dhaka: Ankur Prakashani, 2002.

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Gollwitzer, Martin. Besiedlung und Wirtschaft der zentralskandinavischen Gebirgsregion während der Eisenzeit: Forschungsgeschichte, Fundüberlieferung, Siedlungsgeschichte. Bonn: R. Habelt, 2001.

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Chifeng International Collaborative Archaeological Project. Settlement patterns in the Chifeng region. Pittsburgh: University of Pittburgh Center for Comparative Archaeology, 2011.

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Settlement patterns in the Chifeng region. Pittsburgh: University of Pittburgh Center for Comparative Archaeology, 2011.

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Gilreath, Amy J. Prehistoric use of the Coso Volcanic Field. [Berkeley]: University of California at Berkeley, 1997.

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Kuckenburg, Martin. Siedlungen der Vorgeschichte in Deutschland, 300,000 bis 15 v. Chr. Köln: DuMont Buchverlag, 1993.

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Vicente, José María Rodanes. El proceso de implantación y desarrollo de las comunidades agrarias en el valle medio del Ebro. [Zaragoza]: Universidad de Zaragoza, 2005.

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