10th December 2014, 02:40 PM
Jack Wrote:Though we mustn't put our assumptions on the past or what patterns appear in our limited data. Routes may avoid 'special/ritual/burial' places as taboo as much as they link them. Different peoples (tribes) will have had different rules/traditions.how did neolithic and later people navigate the landscape? what were the trade routes? how was contact maintained? when pastoralist farmers drove their herds through the forest for sure they would have used the animal tracks which would have widened, the surrounding vegetation would be grazed down. were these areas the first fields and therefore the easiest way to get about the landscape? how did they know which route led where? what landmarks can be seen from the forest to navigate by? if they had a home range how did they signal their ownership? are communal monuments sign posts? were they to be avoided or were they where messages were left?
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