1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9911102908603321

Titolo

Colonization of unfamiliar landscapes : the archaeology of adaptation / / edited by Marcy Rockman and James Steele

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 2003

ISBN

1-134-52013-1

1-134-52014-X

1-280-02246-9

0-203-42290-2

0-203-42533-2

9780203422908

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (273 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

RockmanMarcy <1971->

SteeleJames <1960->

Disciplina

930.1

Soggetti

Social archaeology

Landscape archaeology

Landscapes - Social aspects - History

Land settlement - History

Colonization - History

Human beings - Effect of environment on - History

Adaptation (Biology) - History

Adaptability (Psychology) - History

Ethnoarchaeology

Archaeology and history

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 and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of figures; List of tables; List of contributors; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Editors' introduction; Dating abbreviations; Conceptual frameworks; Knowledge and learning in the archaeology of colonization; Human wayfinding and cognitive maps; Colonization of new land by hunter-gatherers: expectations and implications based on ethnographic data; Tracking the role of pathways



in the evolution of a human landscape: the St Croix Riverway in ethnohistorical perspective; Mining rushes and landscape learning in the modern world; Case studies

Landscape learning and the earliest peopling of EuropeThe social context of landscape learning and the lateglacial   early postglacial recolonization of the British Isles; ~Where do we go from here?~ Modelling the decision-making process during exploratory dispersal; Deerslayers, pathfinders, and icemen: origins of the European Neolithic as seen from the frontier; Entering uncharted waters: models of initial colonization in Polynesia; The weather is fine, wish you were here, because I'm the last one alive: ~learning~ the environment in the English New World colonies

Advances in theory and methodColonizing new landscapes: archaeological detectability of the first phase; Lessons in landscape learning; Index

Sommario/riassunto

The process of familiarization with and adaptation to unfamiliar landscapes has been integral to colonization and settlement throughout human history. This innovative and important volume presents the archaeological and anthropological foundations of the landscape learning process. Contributions apply the related fields of ethnography, cognitive psychology, and historical archaeology to the issues of individual exploration, development of trail systems, folk knowledge, social identity, and the role of the frontier in the growth of the modern world. A series of case studies examines the arc



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9911092710403321

Autore

Oswald Campesato Campesato

Titolo

Data Cleaning Pocket Primer

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Mercury Learning & Information

ISBN

9781683922186

1683922182

Edizione

[1st edition]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (188 p.)

Collana

Pocket Primer

Soggetti

COMPUTERS / Database Administration & Management

COMPUTERS / Operating Systems / UNIX

COMPUTERS / Software Development & Engineering / General

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Sommario/riassunto

As part of the best selling Pocket Primerseries, this book is an effort to give programmers sufficient knowledge of data cleaning to be able to work on their own projects. It is designed as a practical introduction to using flexible, powerful (and free) Unix / Linux shell commands to perform common data cleaning tasks. The book is packed with realistic examples and numerous commands that illustrate both the syntax and how the commands work together. Companion files with source code are available for downloading from the publisher.Features:- A practical introduction to using flexible, powerful (and free) Unix / Linux shell commands to perform common data cleaning tasks- Includes the concept of piping data between commands, regular expression substitution, and the sed and awk commands- Packed with realistic examples and numerous commands that illustrate both the syntax and how the commands work together- Assumes the reader has no prior experience, but the topic is covered comprehensively enough to teach a pro some new tricks- Includes companion files with all of the source code examples (download from the publisher).