Understanding landscapes, from land discovery to their spatial organization
Subtitle: Comprendre l'espace de peuplement, de la découverte des territoires à leur organisation spatiale
By: edited by François Djindjian, Sandrine Robert
Contributors: Djindjian, François, editor of compilation; Robert, Sandrine, editor of compilation
Series: BAR international series -- 2541; BAR international series -- 2541.
Publisher: Archaeopress
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Oxford
Language: eng
Number of pages: 136
ISBN-13: 9781407311616
Copyright date: 2013
Subjects: Landscapes; Congresses; Archaeological surveying; Prehistoric Antiquities; Landscape archaeology
Other titles: Comprendre l'espace de peuplement, de la découverte des territoires à leur organisation spatiale
Description: "Papers from the session 'Understanding Landscapes, from Land Discovery to their Spatial Organization' from the 16th IUPPS Congress in Florianopolis, September 2011."--Publisher's website.
Notes: Proceedings of the XVI World Congress (Florianópolis, 4-10 September 2011), vol. 4, actes des sessions C19 et C22.

Includes bibliographical references.

Text in English and French with summaries in French and English.
Table of contents: title: Session C19. Le franchissement des détroits et des bras de mer aux périodes pré- et protohistoriques = Crossing straits and channels during pre- and protohistoric time. Avant-propos; title: Le franchissement des détroits et des bras de mer aux périodes pré- et protohistoriques / François Djindjian; title: Subfossiles et première présence humaine à Madagascar / Dominique Gommery et Beby Ramanivosoa; title: Les débuts de la navigation dans le bassin oriental de Méditerranée / Janusz K. Kozlowski; title: Exploring size and shape variations in late Holocene projectile points from Northern and Southern coasts of Magellan Strait (South America) / Judith Charlin, Karen Borrazzo and Marcelo Cardillo; title: Le fassoi de Cabras (Oristano, Sardaigne, Italie) au crible du comparatisme ethno-archéologique: une possible embarcation préhistorique sarde? / Giuseppa Lopez; title: Crossing to Cyprus in the Third Millennium BCE / David Frankel; title: Détroits / Marcel Otte; title: Session C22. La reconstitution des paysages anciens = Reconstructing ancient landscapes. Avant-propos; title: The ALPAGE historical GIS: a new tool allowing a new looks at medieval Paris / Éric Grosso, Hélène Noizet, Sandrine Robert and Pascal Chareille; title: Stone lines and heaps on south-western Niger plateaus as remains of ancient agricultural land / Rodrigue Guillon, Christopher Petit, Jean Louis Rajot, Amadou Abdourhamane Touré, Vincent Bichet, Zibo Garba, Amélie Quiquérez and David Sebag; title: The archaeological remains of cattle's paths in south Brazil / Ana Lucia Herberts; title: Reconstructing medieval landscapes by using LiDAR technology. Large scale surveys of relict field systems in Central Europe / Benoît Sittler, Karl Hauger; title: LiDAR helps to decipher land-use history in Lorrain, France / Murielle Georges-Leroy, Jérôme Bock, Étienne Dambrine, Jean-Luc Dupouey and David Etienne; title: Examples of LiDAR application for coastal surveys / Frédéric Pouget; title: Remote sensing of below-canopy land use features from the Maya polity of Caracol / John F. Weishampel, ARlen F. Chase, Diane Z. Chaser and Jessica N. Hightower.