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Record Nr.

UNINA9910792057603321

Autore

Arnoldussen Stijn

Titolo

A living landscape [[electronic resource] ] : bronze age settlement sites in the Dutch river area (c. 2000-800 BC) / / door Stijn Arnoldussen

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Leiden, : Sidestone Press, 2008

ISBN

1-299-28176-1

90-8890-127-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (537 p.)

Disciplina

949.2

949.201

Soggetti

Bronze age - Netherlands

Excavations (Archaeology) - Netherlands

Netherlands Antiquities

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Preface; 1 Introduction: Living in a dynamic (cultural) landscape; 1.1 INTRODUCTION; 1.2 WHY STUDY BRONZE AGE SETTLEMENTS?; The lure of the landscape; Studying Bronze Age prehistoric settlement sites; 1.3 SETTLEMENT ANALYSIS AND BRONZE AGE STUDIES: THE ONSET; 1.4 PREVIOUS APPROACHES TO DUTCH BRONZE AGE SETTLEMENT SITES; The first settlement sites; The farmstead as settlement component; The role of houses in settlement studies; Evaluation of previous Bronze Age settlement research; 1.5 BRONZE AGE SETTLEMENT SITES: HOW TO ANSWER THE QUESTIONS?

1.6 THE SELECTION OF A STUDY AREA: THE DUTCH CENTRAL RIVER AREAA dynamic physical landscape; A dynamic cultural landscape; 1.7 FORMULATION OF RESEARCH QUESTIONS; Settlement sites; House-sites; Houses; 1.8 INTRODUCING THE DATA SET: BRONZE AGE SETTLEMENT SITES IN THE DUTCH RIVER AREA; Accessibility of documentation; Simplified comparison; 1.9 RESEARCH CONTEXT; 1.10 A LIVING LANDSCAPE: RESEARCH OUTLINE; 2 The Dutch central river area: fluvial dynamics and palaeogeography; 2.1 INTRODUCTION; 2.2 PALAEOGEOGRAPHIC RESEARCH HISTORY; 2.3 THE DUTCH RIVER AREA: PROCESSES AND DYNAMICS



2.3.1 TYPES OF DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENTS IN THE STUDY AREA2.3.2 MORPHOLOGICAL RIVER TYPES; Braided rivers; Straight rivers; Meandering rivers; Anastomosing rivers; 2.3.3 CREVASSE SPLAY DEPOSITS; 2.3.4 LITHOGENETIC DESCRIPTIONS OF FLUVIAL DEPOSITS; Non-fluvial deposits; 2.3.5 POST-DEPOSITIONAL PROCESSES; Vegetation horizons; Erosion; 2.3.6 CHANGES IN RIVER TYPE DISTRIBUTION; 2.4 PERIODICITY OF FLUVIAL DYNAMICS IN RELATION TO HUMAN TIME-SCALES; 2.4.1 INSTANT (CATASTROPHIC) EVENTS; 2.4.2 SEASONAL TO YEARLY EVENTS; 2.4.3 GENERATIONAL EVENTS; 2.4.4 EVENTS AT THE CENTURIES TIME-SCALE

2.4.5 TIME-SCALES OF CENTURIES TO A MILLENNIUM2.5 VEGETATION DEVELOPMENT OF (PAST) FLUVIAL LANDSCAPES; 2.5.1 INTRODUCTION; 2.5.2 FACTORS AFFECTING VEGETATION RECONSTRUCTION OF FLUVIAL LANDSCAPES; 2.5.3 VEGETATION DEVELOPMENT OF ALLUVIAL GEOGENETIC FACIES; River beaches; Levees; Crevasse splays; Floodbasins; 2.5.4 TWO EXAMPLES OF VEGETATION RECONSTRUCTIONS FOR MBA-B SETTLEMENT SITES; Zijderveld; Eigenblok; Human impact?; 2.6 SIMPLIFIED PALAEOGEOGRAPHY FOR THE DUTCH RIVER AREA C. 2450-450 CAL BC; c. 2450 - 2050 cal BC;  fig. 2.16, A; c. 2050 - 1650 cal BC;  fig. 2.16, B; c. 1650 - 1250 cal BC

fig. 2.16, Cc. 1250 - 850 cal BC;  fig. 2.16, D; c. 850 - 450 cal BC;  fig. 2.16, E; 2.7 IMPLICATIONS FOR ARCHAEOLOGY; 2.7.1 PROPERTIES OF ACTIVE FLUVIAL LANDSCAPES; 2.7.2 PROPERTIES OF PASSIVE FLUVIAL LANDSCAPES; 2.7.3 FACTORS INFLUENCING THE DISTRIBUTION AND DISCOVERY OF BRONZE AGE SETTLEMENT SITES IN THEDUTCH CENTRAL RIVER AREA; Braided rivers?; Meandering rivers; Anastomosing rivers; Crevasse splay deposits; Nature of the archaeological phenomena and archaeological visibility

2.7.4 A METHODOLOGY FOR DISCOVERING (BRONZE AGE) SETTLEMENT SITES ON OR NEAR FORMER FLUVIAL SYSTEMS IN THEDUTCH RIVER AREA

Sommario/riassunto

Today, half the Netherlands is below sea level. Because of this, water-management is of key importance when it comes to maintaining present-day habitation of the Dutch low-lands. In prehistory, however, large parts of the Dutch landscape were highly dynamic due to ongoing fluvial sedimentation. Vast deltaic areas with ceaseless river activity formed the backdrop against which prehistoric occupation took place. Although such landscapes may seem inhospitable, the often excellently preserved archaeological evidence indicates that people lived in these lowlands throughout prehistory. This book des



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Record Nr.

UNINA9910132725603321

Autore

Fourier Charles

Titolo

Du libre arbitre / / Charles Fourier

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chicoutimi : , : J.-M. Tremblay, , 2009

ISBN

1-4123-7119-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource

Disciplina

123.5

Soggetti

Free will and determinism - History - 19th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Francese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

DU LIBRE ARBITRE -- Antienne -- Division du libre arbitre en actif et en passif -- Des cas de perclusion du libre arbitre -- Du libre arbitre de Dieu et de l'homme -- Du libre arbitre de l'homme, en simple et en composé ; en positif et en négatif -- Du libre arbitre en carrière rétrograde -- Du libre arbitre en carrière extrograde -- Classement des libertés vraies et illusoires -- Compétence théologique -- Compétence philosophique -- Compétence des deux sciences.



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Record Nr.

UNINA9910821857903321

Autore

Jung Sandro

Titolo

James Thomson's The Seasons, print culture, and visual interpretation, 1730-1842 / / Sandro Jung

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham, Maryland ; ; London, [England] : , : Lehigh University Press, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

1-61146-319-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (319 p.)

Collana

Studies in Text and Print Culture

Disciplina

821/.5

Soggetti

Literature and society - Great Britain - History - 19th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1. Reading the Visual Paratext; Chapter 2. Editions of The Seasons: 1730-1798; Chapter 3. Paintings and Prints; Chapter 4. Subscription Ventures, Pocket Diaries, and Upmarket Prints; Chapter 5. Editions of The Seasons: 1802-1842; Epilogue; Index; About the Author

Sommario/riassunto

<span><span>This book investigates the cultural afterlife of James Thomson's </span><span style=""font-style:italic;"">The Seasons</span><span> (1730) by charting the prominent place it occupied in the visual cultures of eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Britain. </span></span>