Cultural Resources Survey, Harry S. Truman Dam and Reservoir Project, Missouri, Volume 6. Euro-American Settlement of the Lower Pomme de Terre River Valley

摘要

The development of preliminary models pertaining to relationships between settlements and their natural environment is the first step in an attempt to interpret cultural processes involved in the selecting of land in the lower Pomme de Terre River Valley. Regional settlement studies are aided by ethnohistoric documentation, vegetation models, a form of 'site-catchment' analysis, and a computerized mapping system. Using arbitrary periods of time as phases of settlement, one surmises that individuals rationally selected different catchments in both spatial and temporal sequence. These patterns are directly related to cultural processes in force at the time of purchase. Initial data have relevance in later analysis and construction of predictive models pertaining to historic and prehistoric site location.