Marking the Land
investigates physical landscape marking by hunter-gatherers. When and why do hunter-gatherer groups of varying sociocultural complexity and scale place markers on their landscape? When and why are such markers limited to simple, informational signs? When and why are markers invested with symbolic meaning? And when and why is such symbolic meaning raised to the level of sacred significance? With few answers to these questions currently available this book provides a systematic consideration of these aspects of hunter-gatherer adaptation and the varied environments within which they live.