Environmental history of the Mesopotamian Plains from Archatlas, Sheffield. An electronic atlas of archaeology.

Spotting tells from space by Andrew Sherratt.

• City as part of a landscape process. (What do we mean by this?). HUman impact on the environment and the environmental processes. Active human engagement with the world.
  • Construction of the city as a social event vs. part of a long-term settlement transformation in a particular region.
  • New foundations: transformation of a broader landscape
    • plantation of orchards
    • construction of water canals
    • construction of small scale settlements
    • movement of populations
    • construction of roads
    • opening of new stone quarries and procurement of other building resources, development of new architectural technologies
    • demarcation of landscapes: state's inhabiting places of human interaction

• natural landscapes/cultural landscapes?
  • the rhetorical discourse of "untouched landscapes".

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