Ireland

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This paper explains that, in Ireland, the cultural landscape shows the works of humans over long periods from the Stone Age on, continually changing as technological advances occur. The author points out that, today, the countryside is much different than many years past, especially with the movement of the city dwellers further and further into the surrounding rural areas. The paper relates that the city landscape offers a window into the modern human?s culture, for good or bad, providing a huge database of information relating to the people the Irish were, are, and will be.

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"Archaeologists, who are interested in the evolution of cultural landscapes, have uncovered circular and rectangular houses from the end of the 4th millennium BC. The farming peoples set posts into the ground with cross beams fitted on top and then mounted the rafters of a low-pitched roof. The walls were probably interwoven with wattles that formed a framework for a plaster of mud and straw. The roofing material is likely to have been thatch. Lengthy occupation is indicated in some places by erection of dwelling houses, permanent field enclosures and continued use of large communal tombs in favored locations. Today, these burial sites are referred to as megalithic tombs and are one of the principal surviving remains indicative of these early settlers."

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