ENVIRONMENT AND SETTLEMENT LOCATION CHOICE IN STONE AGE ESTONIA

2020 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 89
Author(s):  
K Johanson ◽  
A Kriiska ◽  
K Sander ◽  
K Sikk ◽  
A Vindi
Keyword(s):  
Location Choice ◽  
Stone Age ◽  
Settlement Location

scholarly journals Waar de doden woonden. De samenhang tussen de locaties van laat-prehistorische urnenvelden en nederzettingen

Paleo-aktueel ◽  
2018 ◽  
pp. 19-26
Author(s):  
Nynke de Boer
Keyword(s):  
Bronze Age ◽  
Location Choice ◽  
Physical Geography ◽  
Late Prehistoric ◽  
Funerary Monuments ◽  
Settlement Location ◽  
Megalithic Tombs ◽  
Burial Mounds ◽  
Type Water ◽  
Burial Grounds

Where the dead dwelt. The relation between the locations of late prehistoric burial grounds and settlements. This article addresses the question whether there is an association between the choice of locations of urnfields and contemporaneous settlements in the province of Drenthe. For both urnfield and settlement, three factors related to location choice have been tested in a GIS: physical geography (soil type, water table and geomorphology), visibility from the surrounding fields, and the presence of visible funerary monuments from earlier periods, especially megalithic tombs (Dutch: hunebedden) and Bronze Age burial mounds. The results have been compared: both urnfields and settlements show a preference for relatively high locations. Probably, this similarity is related to the requirements of dwelling and agriculture: burial follows habitation. However, in the choice of urnfield location, the proximity of earlier funerary elements was also taken into account. This does indicate a difference between urnfield and settlement location choice, despite the earlier-mentioned similarities between the two.

How our Ancestors in the Stone Age Made their Implements

1879 ◽  
Vol 8 (198supp) ◽  
pp. 3156-3157
Author(s):  
B. B. Redding
Keyword(s):  
Stone Age

Towards a Geography of Shetland Brochs

1982 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 38-59 ◽  
Author(s):  
Noel Fojut
Keyword(s):  
Physical Environment ◽  
Partial Reconstruction ◽  
Settlement Location ◽  
Model Formation

Summary A variety of simple techniques based upon the distribution, location and siting of Shetland's brochs, when used in conjunction with data from excavated sites, allows a partial reconstruction of the forces behind the observed patterns of broch-period settlement. The various spatial influences are examined at a number of scales, and the results used to construct a model of settlement location in relation to the physical environment. The process of model-formation demonstrates the potential of fieldwork as a source of illumination where excavation evidence is scanty.

Creativity in the New Stone Age Part 1 - Structural Stone in Contemporary Structures

2017 ◽  
Vol 108 (1) ◽  
pp. 106-109
Author(s):  
Scott Boote ◽  
Alex Lynes ◽  
Steve Webb ◽  
Mark Day
Keyword(s):  
Stone Age
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