WATER AS A MORPHOGEN IN LANDSCAPES

These proceedings include eight presentations. Two of them focus on the role played by the river axes and the geography of river basins as factors of circulation and settlement of Palaeolithic hunter gatherers on the European scale (Francois Djindjian) and in the surroundings of the Jura Mountains (Gérald Bereiziat and Harald Floss). José Javier Piña Abellán describes how the central valley of the River Jabalón (Ciudad Real, Spain) was peopled in the course of the second millennium B.C., and how the inhabitants still maintain a close link to the hydrography. Frederic Cruz and Christophe Petit provide new insights into the organization of the princely residences’ territories of the late Hallstatt era in the North-Western region of the Alps, taking into account their relationship to the environment, and especially the distance from the valleys. Ana Lucia Herberts documents how river crossings and related drainage structures played a crucial role in setting cattle trails in Brazil to drive the cattle from their pasture lands to the major market places in remote cities. A 3-D modelling using LiDAR altimetry has been used by Sabine Schellberg, Benoît Sittler, and Werner Konold to reconstruct water meadows that were used in historical times in the upper Rhine Valley. In their paper, Sandrine Robert and Hélène Noizet develop, as an example illustrating resilience, how an ancient meander of the River Seine, which was filled in Antiquity, still dictates the layout of the network of the streets of Paris. Lastly, Martin Orgaz and Norma Ratto addressed the social construction of landscapes by relating Inca sites to the Tinogasta region (Catamarca, Argentina) rivers whose visual features (the colour red) may be regarded as a factor that governed the selection of sites.

Table of Contents

List of Figures and Tables

Foreword to the XVII UISPP Congress Proceedings Series Edition (Luiz Oosterbeek)

Introduction (Sandrine Robert et Benoit Sittler)

Introduction (Sandrine Robert and Benoit Sittler)

L’importance des cours d’eau dans l’orientation, les déplacements et les colonisations des groupes de chasseurs cueilleurs du Paléolithique supérieur européen (François Djindjian)

De longs fleuves tranquilles? Le rôle du couloir Rhin-Saône-Rhône dans la dynamique de peuplement à la fin du Paleolithique superieur sur le pourtour jurassien (Gérald Béreiziat et Harald Floss)

Water and Settlement in the Middle Valley of Jabalón River during the second Millennium B.C. (Ciudad Real, Spain) (José Javier Piña Abellán)

Le territoire de la résidence princière de Vix (Côte-d’Or, France): une approche géomorphologique (Frédéric Cruz et Christophe Petit)

La gestion de l´eau dans le “Chemin des Troupeaux” dans le sud du Brésil (Ana Lucia Herberts)

LiDAR surveys of irrigated meadows in South-West-Germany (Sabine Schellberg, Benoit Sittler and Werner Konold)

The Resilience of the Old Course of the River Seine on the right bank of Paris (Sandrine Robert and Hélène Noizet)

Aguas turbias, campos fértiles. La geografía sagrada del estado Inca en la region de Fiambalá, Tinogasta, Catamarca, Argentina (Martin Orgaz y Norma Ratto)