Cultural history definition geography

Cultural geography developed out of the University of California, Berkeley and was led by Carl Sauer

He used landscapes as the defining unit of geographic study and said that cultures develop because of the landscape but also help to develop the landscape as well

Material culture: methodologically, cultural history relied to a considerable extent on typologizing artifacts

Everything from techniques of mummification and architectural styles to types of domesticated animals, dyeing techniques, weapons, and tools were used as indicators of cultural diffusion

The historyof geography is the history of thinking about the concepts of environments, places, and spaces

Its content covers an understanding of the physical reality we occupy and our transformations of environments into places that we find more comfortable to inhabit (although many such modifications often have negative long-term impacts)