An Examination of Settlement Patterns at Coba, Quintana Roo, Mexico, and Tikal, Guatemala: A Reply to Arnold and Ford

1982 ◽  
Vol 47 (2) ◽  
pp. 430-436 ◽  
Author(s):  
William J. Folan ◽  
Ellen R. Kintz ◽  
Laraine A. Fletcher ◽  
Burma H. Hyde
Keyword(s):  
Settlement Patterns ◽  
Pattern Analysis ◽  
Settlement Pattern ◽  
Classic Maya ◽  
Quintana Roo ◽  
Measuring Technique ◽  
Masonry Structures ◽  
Urban Organization

Data from Coba, Quintana Roo, Mexico indicate strongly that Arnold and Ford"s (1980) settlement pattern analysis of Tikal, Guatemala is the result of an insufficient sample combined with their inability to distinguish between vaulted and unvaulted masonry structures. These deficiencies, together with a standard labor investment calculation for shrines and the use of an invalid measuring technique, have produced a distorted homogenized view of Classic Maya urban organization.

scholarly journals Pemetaan pola permukiman masyarakat di Kecamatan Klungkung: analisa pola dan karakteristik permukiman

2018 ◽  
pp. 59
Author(s):  
Naniek Kohdrata ◽  
Ni Wayan Febriana Utami ◽  
Cokorda Gede Alit Semarajaya
Keyword(s):  
Settlement Patterns ◽  
Social Dynamics ◽  
Pattern Analysis ◽  
Settlement Pattern ◽  
Population Based ◽  
Pattern Theory ◽  
Residential Characteristics ◽  
Preliminary Study ◽  
Residential Pattern ◽  
Gis Software

Mapping of Klungkung sub-district settlement pattern: analysis of settlement pattern and characteristic. The research on Klungkung subdistrict settlement pattern aims to see whether the pattern is following “traditional” residential pattern theory or else. The pattern of community settlements can be used as an indicator of social dynamics as well as social problems. Similarly, it can be an indication of development potential or just the opposite for a development, whether from economic, social, cultural, even political. This study is limited only to find early indications of settlement patterns and residential characteristics. The method used is descriptive qualitative by utilizing GIS software to map residential locations obtained from key respondents and public respondents. The results show that the distribution of growing settlements patterns from core towards outside is the characteristics of the population based on religion or belief. While the pattern of settlements based on the character of the profession/work shows an orbital form, like the planets that surround the sun. Ethnic or race character does not show any particular pattern. This research is a preliminary study on the pattern of settlements in the era of globalization and development of Semarapura city in Klungkung regency. There is a tendency that the settlement pattern is not centered oriented anymore.

Incorporating Variation in Occupation Span into Settlement-Pattern Analysis

1991 ◽  
Vol 56 (4) ◽  
pp. 604-620 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert E. Dewar
Keyword(s):  
Settlement Patterns ◽  
Pattern Analysis ◽  
Settlement Pattern ◽  
The Past ◽  
Basin Of Mexico ◽  
Settlement Dynamics ◽  
The Mean ◽  
Phase Differences

Settlement patterns recovered by archaeologists differ fundamentally from synchronic settlement patterns analyzed by geographers since they are a static record of occupations that may often have had differing periods of use in the past. Many maps of the “settlement pattern” of prehistoric phases show more occupations than were ever simultaneously occupied. After discussing some of the problems this can cause, I describe a way of characterizing past settlement dynamics and a method for estimating (1) the mean number of likely simultaneous occupations for a region and (2) phase-to-phase differences in mean occupation span. The method is illustrated by the analysis of settlement data from the Ixtapalapa region in the Basin of Mexico.

Megastructures. What is really the point?

TERRITORIO ◽  
2009 ◽  
pp. 21-27
Author(s):  
Alvaro Domingues
Keyword(s):  
Settlement Patterns ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Settlement Pattern ◽  
Shopping Malls ◽  
Transport Networks ◽  
Time And Space ◽  
Rural Roads ◽  
Urban Agglomerations ◽  
Industrial Estates ◽  
Local Transport

- The article explores megastructures in relation to their impact on local transport networks and nodes. The area examined is Portugal, where the recent construction of giant shopping malls, industrial estates and logistics centres has in turn led to large-scale infrastructures that have been superimposed on a settlement pattern consisting, in many cases, of urban agglomerations serviced by rural roads. The resulting landscape reveals a juxtaposition of completely different elements in terms of both scale and impact, often the outcome of urban zoning projects intruding on fragmented urbanisation. The resulting image is one of scattered settlement patterns. Behind these phenomena one can see the effects of splintering urbanism. The difficulty in coordinating, in time and space, the decisions made and actions taken by a wide variety of individuals and institutions is becoming increasingly more complex.

scholarly journals How Maya Archaeologists Discovered the 99% Through the Study of Settlement Patterns

2019 ◽  
Vol 48 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-16 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeremy A. Sabloff
Keyword(s):  
Settlement Patterns ◽  
Settlement Pattern ◽  
Ancient Maya ◽  
Single Group ◽  
Ruling Elite ◽  
Maya Archaeology ◽  
Maya Civilization ◽  
The Many

This article presents an autobiographical perspective on the changing nature of Maya archaeology, focusing on the role of settlement pattern studies in illuminating the lives of commoners as well as on the traditional emphasis on the ruling elite. Advances in understanding the nature of nonelite peoples in ancient Maya society are discussed, as are the many current gaps in scholarly understandings of pre-Columbian Maya civilization, especially with regard to the diversity of ancient “commoners” and the difficulty in analyzing them as a single group.

Modeling variability in Classic Maya intermediate elite political strategies through multivariate analysis of settlement patterns

2019 ◽  
Vol 55 ◽  
pp. 101074 ◽  
Author(s):  
John P. Walden ◽  
Claire E. Ebert ◽  
Julie A. Hoggarth ◽  
Shane M. Montgomery ◽  
Jaime J. Awe
Keyword(s):  
Multivariate Analysis ◽  
Settlement Patterns ◽  
Classic Maya ◽  
Political Strategies

MAYA HETERARCHY AS INFERRED FROM CLASSIC-PERIOD PLAZA PLANS

2004 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 127-138 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marshall Joseph Becker
Keyword(s):  
Settlement Patterns ◽  
Rural Settlement ◽  
Classic Maya ◽  
Classic Period ◽  
Terminal Classic ◽  
Lowland Maya

Recognition of architectural patterning among groups of structures at lowland Maya sites dating from the Classic period provides insights into the ways that residences and ritual complexes were organized. Each structured group arrangement, or Plaza Plan (PP), reveals an architectural grammar that provides the database enabling us to predict urban as well as rural settlement patterns. Wide variations in sizes among examples of residential PPs suggests that heterarchy was an important aspect of Classic Maya society. Examination of PP2 at Tikal indicates that a heterarchic pattern of organization existed. Heterarchy may relate to the fragility of the structure of lowland Maya kingship, and this may explain the gradual demise of states during the Terminal Classic and Postclassic periods and their replacement by re-emergent Maya chiefdoms.

Research on the Morphological Evolution of Sanye House Village Located in Farming-Pastoral Zone of Eastern Inner Mongolia

2013 ◽  
Vol 361-363 ◽  
pp. 64-67
Author(s):  
Jing Kong ◽  
Li Qiu ◽  
Ming Ma ◽  
Juan Wang ◽  
Ming Zhang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Inner Mongolia ◽  
Pattern Analysis ◽  
Morphological Evolution ◽  
Settlement Pattern ◽  
Evolution Process ◽  
Development History ◽  
Pattern Development ◽  
Formation And Evolution ◽  
Three Stages ◽  
Eastern Inner Mongolia

San ye House Village are located in Farming-pastoral zone of eastern Inner Mongolia after a hundred years of development history, from mainly nomadic settlements into agricultural and pastoral settlements. The evolution of the settlements' pattern experienced a total of three stages. With the combination of different periods of settlement pattern analysis, the characteristics of San ye House village settlement pattern development is studied and the reasons for its formation and evolution process are presented.

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