... of French Guiana. Construction of a large dam at Petit Saut and debates over two roads in the summer of 1994 brought oppositions within Guyanais society to the surface. The shift from the rural settlements envisioned in the penal colony to the urban professional norms of the space center reflects wider...

...This chapter discusses the enduring social and cultural identities of rural settlements, which in Fuyuan and many other rural areas in southwest China is called zhaizi. It reveals that the identity of every zhaizi, reinforced by a series of elements and mechanisms...

... medieval archaeology, along with the transformation of towns and landscape/rural settlements. Fehr Hubert transformation processes Alamanni xvii Burgundians Franks Merovingian dynasty migration religion and cults Clovis Julian Fredegar Jerome Roman army cemeteries and graves churches...

... manpower households Biferno Valley Cosa Rome growth economic income meat consumption of shipwrecks surplus living standards Markets Etruria Jerba Survey Samnium farms villa Greece Argolid Laconia Messapia Sparta Metaponto Metapontion Segermes Valley rural settlements recovery rates...

...This chapter begins with a broad-brush analysis of the patterns evident on settlements. It then looks in detail at the Celtic art objects deposited on three specific sites: the enclosed rural settlement at Gussage All Saints; the hillfort at Bury Hill; and the Roman military fort at Newstead...

...This article describes the two road groups of rural settlements — those which might be described as ‘high-status’, which in historical terms means those belonging to thegns and their social superiors, and those of the peasants, which would include the geneat and others whose...

...This chapter discusses the following: medieval climate; landforms; woodlands; peat bogs; field systems; population; rural settlements; the medieval house; towns; trade; and size of towns. climate — on church lands crops Europe architecture livestock pollen analysis rainfall patterns Clew Bay...