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This paper has its origins a lecture given at the invitation of The Royal Town Planning Institute in Scotland at the Royal Society of Edinburgh in May 2009. It reflects the thinking that finds fuller expression in my book Patrick Geddes’s... more
Documented are the rapidly disappearing, present-day local crafts, such as earthenware pottery, thereby contributing to a better understanding of Vijayanagara’s past economic life. As directors of the Vijayanagara Metropolitan Survey the... more
Introduzione alla carta archeologica di Tindari (Tyndaris) con una rassegna completa di tutte le fonti utilizzate
This work goes from East to West along the ancient coast of the Baetican estuary, around which the main towns, natural resources and the main economic activities between the 2nd and 1st centuries b. C. will be highlighted. In order to... more
For my dissertation project, I examined settlement and land-use shifts in Quiechapa, Oaxaca, Mexico during the Postclassic period (A.D. 800-1521), a time of sociopolitical unrest. The main goal of the study was to understand the long-term... more
The Recorrido Arqueológico de Coixtlahuaca (RAC) presents period-by-period settlement pattern maps for the valley of Coixtlahuaca in the northern Mixteca Alta. The RAC project made improvements in full-coverage survey methods. We identify... more
Waal M.S. de (2006), Pre-Columbian Social Organisation and Interaction Interpreted through the Study of Settlement Patterns. An archaeological case-study of the Pointe des Châteaux, La Désirade and Les Îles de la Petite Terre... more
Resumen El inicio y desarrollo de los asentamientos urbanos es un tema de importancia en la ciencia arqueológica. En este trabajo se presenta una propuesta para conocer la variabilidad del proceso urbano en la región de la Mixteca Alta de... more
The paper outlines a pilot project that archaeologists may use to explore the utility of analyzing surface and subsurface archaeological deposits from cultivated field sites. Surface and subsurface assemblages data is compared from the... more
The Recorrido Arqueológico de Coixtlahuaca (RAC) presents period-by-period settlement pattern maps for the valley of Coixtlahuaca in the northern Mixteca Alta. The RAC project made improvements in full-coverage survey methods. We identify... more
Review of finds of the Achaemind age in SE Turkey
San Pedro Mártir Quiechapa, enclavada en la ladera norte de la Sierra Sur de Oaxaca, ha recibido poca atención arqueológica. Sin embargo, narraciones del pasado antiguo de la comunidad han sido exploradas gracias a las fuentes... more
Inter aestuaria Baetis. Pre-Roman landscapes and political territories on the lower Guadalquivir basin. We present a synthesis of the study of Pre-Roman resource exploitation and settlement on the shores of the Lacus Ligustinus. We... more
De Waal, M.S., 2009, Small islands, large settlements: Archaeology at Les Îles de la Petite Terre, Guadeloupe, F.W.I. In: Caribbean Quarterly, Caribbean Archaeology and Material Culture, Vol. 55, No. 2, June 2009: 5-22. Between 1998 and... more
Waal M.S. de (1999), The Pointe des Châteaux survey (1998). A preliminary report. In: Proceedings of the XVIIIth International Congress for Caribbean Archaeology no. 18. 268-276. This article describes the aims, methods and preliminary... more
Lesparre-de Waal, M.S., 2011, Pre-Columbian social organisation and interaction in the Eastern part of Guadeloupe. A settlement patterns analysis. In: A. Reginald Murphy and Samantha A. Rebovich (eds.), Proceedings of the XXIIIth... more
Ancient states and early complex societies emerged in areas where urban settlements had the resources to house large populations and where economic and political centers and institutions could be established to run the society. By... more