A settlement is a term used in archeology, landscape history and other subjects for a permanent or temporary community in which people live. Archaeology, archeology, or archæology (from Greek grc ἀρχαιολογία archaiologia – grc ἀρχαῖος archaīos Landscape history is the study of the way in which mankind has changed the physical appearance of the environment - both present and past A settlement can range in size from a small number of dwellings grouped together to the largest of cities with surrounding urbanized areas. The medieval settlement research group (a British organisation)^[1] includes as part of a settlement, associated features such as roads, enclosures, field systems, boundary banks and ditches, ponds, parks and woods, mills, manor houses, moats and churches.

Settlements can be ordered by size (or some other factor such as availability of services) to define a settlement hierarchy. A settlement hierarchy is a way of arranging settlements into a Hierarchy based upon their population or some other criteria

Notes

1. ^ MSRG

See also

• Developed Environments
• Colonization
• Israeli settlement
• Transmigration program
• Resettlement
• Category:Settlements

Developed environments ( Human settlements are environments in Geography. Colonisation (also known as Colonization) occurs whenever any one or more species populates a new area Israeli settlements are communities inhabited by Israelis in territory that was captured as a result of Jordanian attacks during the 1967 Six-Day War. The transmigration program ( Indonesian: Transmigrasi) was an initiative of the Indonesian government to move landless people from densely populated areas Human migration denotes any movement by Humans from one locality to another sometimes over long distances or

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