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Settlement archaeology (German: Siedlungsarchäologie) is a branch of modern archaeology. It investigates former settlements and deserted areas, forms of housing and settlements, and the prehistoric settlement of entire regions.
Londinium, also known as Roman London, was the capital of Roman Britain during most of the period of Roman rule. Most twenty-first century historians think that it was originally a settlement established shortly after the Claudian invasion of Britain, on the current site of the City of London around 47–50 AD, but some defend an older view that the city originated in a defensive enclosure ...
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Settlement Archaeology is defined as the study of societal relationships using archaeological data. A separate approach is required because of the inadequacy of the concept of “phase” or “culture” for the investigation of this sort of problem. An examination of the history of Iroquoian warfare in the light of archaeological and ...
- Bruce G. Trigger
- 1967
t. e. Prehistoric Orkney refers only to the prehistory of the Orkney archipelago of Scotland that begins with human occupation. (The islands’ history before human occupation is part of the geology of Scotland .) Although some records referring to Orkney survive that were written during the Roman invasions of Scotland, “prehistory” in ...
Jun 8, 2023 · Chang ( 1968, 7) postulated that settlement patterns consist of both a ‘microstructure’ – the ‘culture and social structure of a settlement’ – and a ‘macrostructure’ – the ‘larger cultural and social system’. Having been trained in Mainland China, Taiwan, and the US, Chang’s views were informed by practices and materials ...
Mar 1, 2022 · Settlement thus serves as an implicit backdrop in specialized research on the archaeology of households (Carballo, 2011), communities (Harris, 2014), urban centers (Smith, 2011) and, within them, neighborhoods (Arnauld et al., 2012), as well in as many studies that target cultural landscapes (Bollwerk, 2015), ethnicity (Emberling, 1997) and ...
Jun 5, 2014 · Excavations by Trent & Peak Archaeology under way on the Anglo-Saxon settlement at Catholme. The features in the foreground represent a sequence of L-shaped enclosure ditches and intersecting post-built and post-in-trench structures. The straight, unexcavated ditch on the right is post-Medieval in date. Catholme, Staffordshire, in the Trent ...
