Designing the earth. The human impulse to shape nature.

Ein gutes und sauberes Exemplar. - cave dwellers out of africa -- the beringian connection -- the middle east: pit houses and mud-brick dwellings -- asia: baked-brick cities, rammed-earth palaces -- the americas: pit houses, earthen lodges, platform mounds -- asia minor: cappadocia's rock-cut dwellings -- irish raths and crannogs, viking turf dwellings -- mississippian mound builders, southwestern pueblo dwellers -- africa: tunisia's underground settlements, mali's mud houses -- unfired earth: cob, pise, adobe -- modern earth-sheltered and adobe architecture -- irrigation: canalized rivers, terraced mountainsides navigation canals: transportational shortcuts -- roads and tunnels: accelerating trade and travel -- mining: carving the earth for profit -- dams and dikes: managing water resources -- neolithic defenses: jericho's walls, british hillforts -- military campaigns in the ancient world -- ancient china: the beginnings of the great wall -- the roman empire: from masada to hadrian's wall -- medieval europe: offa's dike, viking ramparts -- castles: mottes and moats -- ming-dynasty china: the culmination of the great wall -- the americas: the maya at war, a spanish moat in florida -- modern warfare: ramparts and trenches versus artillery -- the earliest burials: for beloved neanderthals -- funerary monuments prior to 2001 b.c. -- tombs in the ancient world between 2000 and 300 b.c. -- native american burials, 500 b.c. to a.d. 400 -- asian tumuli and rock-cut crypts from the third century b.c. to the second century a.d. -- burials in christian europe and its viking frontiers -- medieval memorials in asia, the americas, and africa -- artificial mountains: stairways to heaven -- caves: the sanctity of earthen recesses -- britain's prehistoric sacred rings -- native american effigy mounds and ground drawings -- mud mosques, adobe missions -- sacred sites for a new age -- asian gardens: contemplative zones -- western gardens: italian grottoes, english ha-has -- sculptured mountains, contoured plains -- the new ground-breakers -- the prime movers: robert smithson and michael heizer -- varieties of land art, 1968-79 -- land art and environmental reclamation -- land art since 1980. ISBN 9780810932241