Sequent occupance: The notion that successive societies leave their cultural imprints on a place, each contributing to the cumulative cultural landscape.

What is Sequent Occupance example?

Sequent Occupance

EXAMPLES: Bolivia: The present cultural landscape of Bolivia includes parts from the early Incan Indians, and from the Spanish colonists who conquered them, and finally from the period after independence. Parts of all these successive cultures make up the cultural landscape of Bolivia today.

What is sequential occupancy?

Sequent occupance is a concept used to describe the current cultural landscape of a region, as a combination of all the cultures which have 'sequentially' occupied the region from the past to the present.