Nominations for landmark status are evaluated by at least one of these themes:

  Peopling places Focuses on demography and settlement.

  Creating social institutions Examines how social life emerges and develops.

  Expressing cultural values Looks at issues of belief and its representation.

  Shaping political landscapes Deals with identity, territoriality, and interaction.

  Developing economies Explores how people extract, produce, distribute, exchange, and consume resources.

  Expanding science and technology Looks at material remains, technology, and technological organization.

  Transforming environments Examines humans’ response to the environment and their impact upon it.

  Changing roles in the world Assesses major contributions to knowledge and how events related to the rest of the globe.

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