 Set of norms and values  Learned behavior  Survival skills  “Roadmap to a successful life”  Include legal and political systems, Tools and technical skills, values, attitudes and beliefs Tension between change and stability in every culture

 Cultural Landscape  Culture Hearths  Cultural Diffusion  Cultural Ecology  Cultural Regions and Realms

 Traits  Systems  Artifacts, mentifacts, sociofacts  vernacular

 Concept originated with American geographer Carl Sauer in 1920s  Distinct imprint of a culture on the land  Transformation by structures, contact and communication, tilling and channeling water

 Areas where successful food production and other practices led to an increase of population and an improvement in quality of life.  “Creative minority”  Appearance of “elites”  Some are isolated, others impacted wide areas.

 CONTIGUOUS  HIERARCHICAL  RELOCATION - toponymy

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