Floodplains were important sites of creativity as well as sites of settlement, cultivation and travel.
Oases in the largely desert region lived in by the Qedarites - such as Dedan, Tayma, and Dumah - played an important role as sites of settlement, trade, and watering-places.
Malaria and dengue pathogens often move with people, and migration from endemic areas can initiate outbreaks or increase transmission in sites of settlement.
The buildings were moved from the former site of the settlement at Ukiivik (Holsteinsborg) together with the rest of the settlement.
Stoke Newington was a site of Paleolithic settlement, and it later became a Saxon village.
In a separate incident, several hundred settlers have also occupied the ruined site of a settlement in the northern West Bank that was forcibly evacuated 10 years ago at the same time as Jewish settlements inside Gaza.
The symbolic significance of this site and its location on the historic east-west trade route (Silk Road) have ensured that this area has been the site of significant settlement for several millennia.
Here, at the northern tip of Newfoundland, is what archaeologists agree is the first and still only authentic site of Viking settlement in North America, 500 years before the voyages of Columbus.
Visitors' attention would then be directed straight ahead, to Governors Island, New York's Plymouth Rock, the initial site of European settlement (until Peter Minuit, in one of history's shrewder judgment calls, shifted the operation to Manhattan).
That the Quirinal, traditional site of Sabine settlement, was the seat of his cult there is no doubt, and the Sabine origin of the god is reflected in Ovid (Fasti II, 475).
