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An example of a dispersed settlement given by W G Hoskins is Middle Barton in Steeple Barton, Oxfordshire. [3] In some parts of England, the pattern of dispersed settlement has remained unchanged for many hundreds of years. Many of the locations found in Domesday may be dispersed farmsteads. [4]
linear settlement; polyfocal settlement: two (or more) adjacent nucleated villages that have expanded and merged to form a cohesive overall community; A sub-category of clustered settlement is a planned village or community, deliberately established by landowners or the stated and enforced planning policy of local authorities and central ...
Gordon Randolph Willey (7 March 1913 – 28 April 2002) [1] was an American archaeologist who was described by colleagues as the "dean" of New World archaeology. [2] Willey performed fieldwork at excavations in South America, Central America and the Southeastern United States; and pioneered the development and methodology for settlement patterns theories. [3]
A linear settlement is a (normally small to medium-sized) settlement or group of buildings that is formed in a long line. [1] Many of these settlements are formed along a transport route, such as a road, river, or canal. Others form due to physical restrictions, such as coastlines, mountains, hills or valleys.
Some settlement sites may go out of use. This location in Estonia was used for human settlement in 2nd half of first millennium and it is considered an archaeological record, that may provide information on how people lived back then. Landscape history studies the form (morphology) of settlements – for example whether they are dispersed or ...
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The Florida law labeled by critics as “ Don't Say Gay ” is remaining in place under a settlement reached this week between the state and parents, students, teachers and advocacy groups who ...
Where there was the danger of Indian attacks, people settled at first in clustered "stations," but as danger lessened, settlement tended to be in a rural, dispersed, kin-structured pattern, with relatively few cities and towns. These early settlers of the Upland South tended to practice small-scale farming, stock raising, and hunting.