On the other hand, the consensus of opinion is that, used with caution and in conjunction with other types of evidence, the native sources still provide a valid rough outline for the English settlement of southern Britain.

For example, abeyance was used as a settlement method in a Canadian lawsuit involving the University of Victoria Students ' Society ( UVSS ), the BCCLA, and a campus pro-life to whom the UVSS denied funding to.

) In the sense used here it is first defined in 1704 by Mathieu de la Porte in his treatise "" as a consideration of different exchange rates to recognize the most profitable places of issuance and settlement for a bill of exchange ("".

Circumstantial evidence, such as the early settlement of Australia over 40, 000 years ago, and findings in Crete dated 130, 000 years ago, suggests that boats have been used since ancient times.

The languages of Aboriginal peoples in Canada started to influence European languages used in Canada even before widespread settlement took place, and the French of Lower Canada provided vocabulary to the English of Upper Canada.

In buildings that are constructed and found to undergo settlement, underpinning piles can be used to stabilise the existing building.

Danish and Norwegian settlement made enough of an impact to leave significant traces in the English language ; many fundamental words in modern English are derived from Old Norse, though of the 100 most used words in English the vast majority are Old English in origin.

* Haithabu is the modern German spelling used when referring to the historical settlement, it is also often used in this way in anglophone academic contexts.

It is possible that the two names were used interchangeably for the same settlement, depending on which language was being used.

That earlier treaty had used the Mississippi River to determine the border, but assumed that the river extended further north than it did, and so that earlier settlement was unworkable.

The settlement grew into a group of shacks built mostly with wreckage from the Amaranth ( lumber from which was also used by the young Hawaiian colonists to build surfboards ), but later, stone and wood dwellings were built and equipped with refrigeration, radio equipment, and a weather station.

The descriptions given by the contemporary chroniclers make it possible that a second, purely militarily used castle existed near the settlement, yet neither is this certain nor have archaeological efforts been able to locate traces thereof.

In the Dark Ages, the island was used a seat of early Christian settlement.

Mobilian Jargon ( also Mobilian trade language, Mobilian Trade Jargon, Chickasaw – Choctaw trade language, Yamá ) was a pidgin used as a lingua franca among Native American groups living along the Gulf of Mexico around the time of European settlement of the region.

The folktales about Mike Fink recall the keelboats used for commerce in the early days of European settlement.

This is supported by evidence that geographic descriptors were commonly used to distinguish people living north of the Black Sea both before and after Gothic settlement there and by the lack of evidence for an earlier date for the name pair Tervingi-Greuthungi than the late third century.

The system was first used in Wessex from the beginning of Anglo-Saxon settlement, and spread to most of the rest of England in the tenth century, along with West Saxon political control.

This ship had previously been used in the 1607 founding of Jamestown, the first permanent English settlement in what was to become the United States ;

No earlier evidence of human occupation has been found, but the island almost certainly formed part of the land bridge used for the settlement of Australia and New Guinea by at least 40, 000 BC There is no evidence of Homo erectus having reached Sulawesi ; crude stone tools first discovered in 1947 on the right bank of the Walennae river at Berru, which were thought to date to the Pleistocene on the basis of their association with vertebrate fossils, are now thought to date to perhaps 50, 000 BC

This is supported by evidence that geographic descriptors were commonly used to distinguish people living north of the Black Sea both before and after Gothic settlement there, by evidence of forest-related names among the Tervingi, and by the lack of evidence for an earlier date for the name pair Tervingi – Greuthungi than the late 3rd century.

The land grant railroads, receiving millions of acres of public land, sold bonds based on the value of the lands, sold the land to settlers, used the money to build their railroads, and contributed to a rapid settlement of the West.

In 1508, Juan Ponce de León settled Puerto Rico, and reports in Spanish journals suggested that the settlement used the Virgin Islands for fishing, but nothing else.

Marketing and commercial pressures have led to the word “ peering ” being also used routinely when there is some settlement involved, even though that does not correspond to the original technical meaning of the word.

The settlement in today's Poland may correspond to the introduction of Scandinavian burial traditions, such as the stone circles and the stelae especially common on the island of Gotland and other parts of southern Sweden.

The burial sites are crematorial and are usually dated from the 6th century BC through the 3rd AD, so that a settlement breakoff seems unlikely.

Archaeological evidence of settlement in the region includes inhabited rock shelters, rock paintings and engravings, burial places, camps and quarry sites, and stone tools and arrangements.

** Hurvat Borgyn ()-remains of a 2nd century CE settlement, including fortifications, wells, burial caves, a wine press, and other agriculture oriented finds.

Three large burial mounds were discovered after European settlement.

This site is the oldest known Native American settlement in the state of Minnesota, containing Hopewell tradition culture burial grounds that are believed to date back more than 2, 000 years.

A grave-marker found during these works implies that there was a burial ground here prior to the 12th-century, suggesting that Tong was possibly a pre-Conquest settlement.

Close to the year 500, the spread of Anglian settlement had recently reached Baston, at the other end of this Roman road, on the landward side of this fen but burial at the Urns Farm cemetery alongside King Street then stopped abruptly.

The early settlement appears to have grown up on the east side of the River Mole, although Hawk's Hill, on the west side of the river, is said to be the site of an old Saxon burial ground.

However, the existence of several examples of other, lesser settlements, that share this name in Northumberland-particularly one north of Barrasford in North Tynedale, and another outside Hartburn, east of Morpeth-suggests that it may be derived from some actual feature of the landscape, or former land-use, that has since been forgotten ( one exotic suggestion for the North Tynedale example being the Ancient British term " Beddan Maes ", meaning " burial ground "-although this suggestion has never been offered to explain the name of the Durham settlement ).

The fragmented, localized and autonomous cultures of reduced complexity are noted for such diversity of their material cultures in pottery styles ( conservative in Athens, eclectic at Knossos ), burial practices and settlement structures, that generalizations about a " Dark Age society " are misleading.

Within the modern bounds of the city other late evidence was discovered ( the burial ground of the Fatyanovskaya culture, the site of the Iron Age settlement of Dyakovskaya culture ), on the territory of the Kremlin, Sparrow Hills, Setun River and Kuntsevskiy forest park, etc.

Human settlement in L ' anse Amour dates back at least 7, 500 years as evidenced by the burial mound of a Maritime Archaic boy.

Although his burial mound is still shown to occasional tourists, archaeological excavations of long barrows abounding in the vicinity did not reveal the presence of the Varangian settlement at the site, indicating that Izborsk was an important centre of the early Krivichs.

There has been a habitation in Oadby since an Anglian settlement in the year 550 In 1760, on Brocks Hill, evidence of an Anglian burial ground was discovered The Middle Angles came under the rule of the kings of Mercia and were later conquered by the Danish invaders.

Brownhills is situated on the ancient Watling Street and there is evidence of early settlement in the area, including an ancient burial mound and a guard post believed to date from Roman times and later dubbed Knaves Castle.

This comprises the large chambered tomb of Maes Howe, the ceremonial stone circles the Standing Stones of Stenness and the Ring of Brodgar and the Neolithic village of Skara Brae, together with a number of unexcavated burial, ceremonial and settlement sites.

Lindholm Høje ( Lindholm Hills, from Old Norse haugr, hill or mound ) is a major Viking burial site and former settlement situated to the north of and overlooking the city of Aalborg in Denmark.

There are four chambered tombs, five cists and five other sites assumed to be burial cairns, suggesting a significant settlement in the Neolithic and Bronze Age.

Archaeological evidence ( such as the earthworks associated with burial mounds, settlements and enclosures ) suggests that there was settlement in Wick from around 1600BC when a small proto-Celtic community may have developed, probably farming the surrounding land on a subsistence basis.

Archaeological evidence of settlement in the region includes inhabited rock shelters, rock paintings and engravings, burial places, camps and quarry sites, and stone tools and arrangements.

By the 17th century, additional domestic and farm buildings stood close to the tower and the isolated settlement had its own cemetery, whose last recorded burial is that of a Roger Adams, in 1731.

The county has prehistoric burial mounds ( such as Stoney Littleton Long Barrow ), stone rows ( such as the circles at Stanton Drew and Priddy ) and settlement sites.

The discovery of Roman burial sites during road and rail construction in the 1920s and 1930s indicated that the settlement was well developed and of some significance, although no prominent buildings were preserved.