Showing papers on "Settlement (litigation) published in 1973"

Progress and decline in the Kat river settlement, 1829–1854

Abstract: The Kat River Settlement was established in the eastern Cape Colony in 1829 as a measure of frontier defence. In 1851 many of its coloured inhabitants rebelled against the colonial government. The rebels' motives were beyond the comprehension of contemporary officials, and no thorough investigation of them has since been made. All accounts agree that the Settlement initially thrived, despite the harmful effects of a frontier war in 1835. In later years, however, the government used the Settlement as a dumping ground for coloureds and tribesmen dispossessed elsewhere. The coloureds' system of economic clientship was simultaneously challenged by the extension of commercial farming techniques in the eastern Cape. Coloured people failed to obtain credit to enable them to adapt. Overcrowding and insecurity bred discontent, particularly among certain coloureds of Gonaqua (Khoi) origin, who remembered suffering earlier injustices at the hands of the whites. Unsympathetic colonial officials and the declining military importance of the Settlement compounded these basic grievances. In 1851, under cover of another frontier war, numbers of Settlement coloureds rebelled. The rebellion failed and the government appropriated the land belonging to the rebels, thus dispersing the last concentration of Gonaqua Khoi.

Localization of the Sixteenth Century Map Called the Maguey Plan

Abstract: Sanders (1970) has recently attempted to analyze settlement pattern and demography at the Aztec capital, Tenochtitlan, on the assumption that an early map called the Maguey plan represents a part of the city. A careful analysis of the physical layout of the community shown on the map, and of several written and pictographic glosses added sometime after the original map was completed, supports the view that the Maguey plan actually shows an island settlement located in a region which had been expropriated by Tenochtitlan following that city's conquest of Azcapotzalco in the early fifteenth century.

The structure, size and costs of urban settlements

Abstract: List of tables List of charts Preface 1. Introduction 2. Factors affecting settlement planning 3. The structure of settlements 4. Land use and densities 5. Settlement models 6. Population and facilities 7. Traffic in the settlements 8. Main roads and their capital costs 9. The capital costs of constructing a settlement 10. The costs of travelling to work 11. The costs of public transport: buses and railways 12. Factors affecting development costs 13. Costs-in-use of settlements and their transport systems 14. New and expanded settlements 15. Financing development 16. Phasing and adaptability of settlements 17. Urban form, operating costs and values 18. The economics of growing and declining settlements 19. Conclusions Appendices List of works cited Index.

Knossos 1951–61: Orientalizing and Archaic Pottery from the Town

Abstract: This is the second of three articles presenting the settlement pottery of post-Minoan Knossos, found during the British School's excavations of 1951–61 mostly under the direction of Mr. Sinclair Hood. The Protogeometric and Geometric deposits were published in BSA lxvii (1972) 63–98; the final article in the series, to appear in a future volume of BSA, will be devoted to the Classical and Hellenistic material.

Ethnobotany from the voyages of Mendaña and Quiros in the Pacific

Abstract: Sixteenth‐century Spanish explorers in the South Pacific carefully recorded details of indigenous food plants and crop yields. It is argued that the apparent agricultural wealth of the Solomon Islands encouraged Mendana's plans for a colonial settlement; the failure of which can be attributed, in part, to their lack of understanding of the traditional economic system.

Initial Settlement and Intracity Movement of Migrants in Monterrey, Mexico

Abstract: This article presents the results of a study of migrant settlement patterns in Monterrey, Mexico. Two components of the settlement are investigated; (1) points of entry and (2) intra-city mobility. Current notions about migrant settlement patterns in Latin American cities are then examined in the light of these findings. It was found that migrants arriving in Monterrey from rural and small-town backgrounds have tended to concentrate outside the center-most parts of the city on arrival. Generally migrants who changed neighborhoods after arrival tended to direct their moves outward from the site of their initial location. However, even in the case of migrants who settled in the central parts of the city and then moved outward, only a fifth relocated at the extreme periphery. Substantial numbers moved only short distances or moved toward the center of the city. While in recent years migrants involved in peripherally directed moves tended to experience more occupational mobility than other migrants, ...

A Geographical Study of Pre-Shakan Zululand

Abstract: The pattern of settlement in Zululand between approximately 1800 and 1820 is examined in terms of environment, resources and flow related to power systems. An attempt is made to reconstruct the environment as perceived and determine whether or not the environment is a factor of significance in the history of Nguni peoples during this period.

The Iron Age settlement of Gussage All Saints. Part I. The settlement

Abstract: In the parish of Britford SW of Sailisbury are two enclosures which were discovered as the result of a chance aerial photograph. The larger settlement was called Woodbury and to avoid confusion, the smaller settlement 500 m. to the east was named Little Woodlbury. The latter was selected by the Prehistoric Society as the site for a research excavation because its size made feasible a total exploration.

Ethnoarchaeology and Settlement Archaeology

Abstract: Archaeological reconstruction of prehistoric settlement patterns may frequently oversimplify complex living situations. Archaeological, ethnohistorical, and ethnographic data from the study of the Hopi and the Hopi-Tewa of Northern Arizona (A.D. 1500-1970) are discussed concerning such settlement formation and abandonment problems as factionalism, priestly orders, water and land conflicts, local warfare, disease and health, invading groups, and economic pressures. Internal variation in any settlement may be due to rapid clan extinctions (in 50 years or less), creation of new clans, use of another clan's land or houses, emigration and disruption of ceremonial cycles, and exchange of craftsmen and architects between villages and tribes.

The Excavation of Prehistoric and Romano-British Settlements at Eaton Heath, Norwich

Abstract: The excavation in 1971 of an area in excess of 6,500 square metres on Eaton Heath in the south-western suburbs of Norwich, produced evidence for a Neolithic settlement overlaid by ditch systems of ...

A Decorated Bronze Mirror from an Iron Age Settlement at Holcombe, Near Uplyme, Devon

Abstract: Summary The Holcombe mirror was found buried in a pit in a late Iron Age settlement, and beneath a Romano-British villa occupied from the late first until nearly the end of the fourth century A.D. A study of the design and motifs indicates that it was produced by a western school of metal-smiths active in the first half of the first century A.D.

Agricultural Resources and Settlement in the Aşvan Region

Abstract: Following Wagstaff's paper on physical geography and settlements, a brief expansion of the discussion of distribution of agricultural resources is in place. This topic provides the necessary background for studies conducted in the village itself as well as for the following paper on “Agricultural productivity and past population potential at Aşvan”. My object here is firstly, to outline the spatial distribution of major land resources (this is achieved via Figs. 1 and 2), secondly to discuss a few of the factors which appear to have conditioned this distribution and, thirdly, to outline some problems involved in the location of ancient settlements relative to these land resources. Few conclusions can, however, be drawn until we have more data on sedimentation history (and thence ancient distribution of soils) in the region.

A Bibliographical Essay on the November 1971 Rhodesian Settlement Proposals

Abstract: Controversial topics tend to generate controversial socio-political commentary, and this is sharply illustrated in the case of Rhodesia,' where 220,000 whites dominate the political and economic lives of five and a half million Africans. Much of the social science literature on Rhodesia reflects the political frustrations of the country's unresolved colonial condition; the failure of Great Britain and the United Nations to remedy the situation tends to exacerbate the controversy. Consequently, the literature on the Rhodesian question is marked by deeply felt opposition or defensive apologetics. In such cases researchers often discover that attempts at objective accounts often result in remote or abstract commentary, and that emotional responses are sometimes devoid of logic or reason. The problem for students interested in Rhodesian politics is to recognize both extremes and to find a way between the sterility of arid objectivity and the misapprehensions which stem from subjectivity. This selected bibliography is intended to provide a review of the major sources of evidence on Great Britain's 1971-1972 attempt to resolve the Rhodesian question. In November, 1965, the white regime of the self-governing Colony of Southern Rhodesia announced a unilateral declaration of independence (UDI) from Great Britain, and since that time the British Government has attempted to negotiate an independence constitution which would satisfy both the white minority and the African majority. At no point in the negotiations were African nationalists given a participatory role of any significance. After UDI the British Prime Minister, Harold Wilson, imposed limited economic sanctions against Rhodesia, and in 1966 met with the UDI Prime Minister, Ian Smith, aboard the HMS Tiger in an abortive attempt to reach a settlement. That same year Britain imposed full economic sanctions against Rhodesia and won United Nations support for an international boycott against the white regime. A second attempt at negotiation in 1968, aboard the HMS Fearless, also proved fruitless. Following the failure of publicly announced conferences, the British Government gradually resumed consultations in private; during the summer of 1971 intensive negotiations were conducted by the British spokesman, Lord Goodman, and Rhodesian representatives. The combined pressures of the partly successful economic sanctions and the British desire to resolve the issue resulted in the November 1971 settlement proposals. The British Government claimed that it