Over the past three decades, “landscape” has become an umbrella term to describe many different strands of archaeology. From the processualist study of settlement patterns to the phenomenologist’s experience of the natural world, from human impact on past environments to the environment’s impact on human thought, action, and interaction, the term has been used. In this volume, for the first time, over 80 archaeologists from three continents attempt a comprehensive definition of the ideas and practices of landscape archaeology, covering the theoretical and the practical, the research and conservation, and encasing the term in a global framework. As a basic reference volume for landscape archaeology, this volume will be the benchmark for decades to come. All royalties on this Handbook are donated to the World Archaeological Congress.
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Over 80 archaeologists from four continents create a benchmark volume of the ideas and practices of landscape archaeology, covering the theoretical and the practical, the research and conservation, and encasing the term in a global framework.
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Preface Part I. Historical Perspectives 1. Landscape Archaeology: Introduction 2. Place in Landscape Archaeology: A Western Philosophical Prelude 3. Uncommon Ground: Landscapes as Social Geography 4. Pathways to a Panoramic Past: A Brief History of European Landscape Archaeology 5. A Brief History of Landscape Archaeology in the Americas 6. Thinking of Landscape Archaeology in Africa’s Later Prehistory: Always Something New Part II. Encountering Humans: Mapping Place 7. Nonhuman Primate Approaches to Landscapes 8. Pre-Homo sapiens Place-Worlds 9. Evolutionary Psychology and Archaeological Landscapes Part III. Thinking through Landscapes 10. The Social Construction of Water 11. Reading between the Lands: Toward an Amphibious Archaeological Settlement Model for Maritime Migrations 12. Island Biogeography: Implications and Applications for Archaeology 13. Sentient Sea: Seascapes as Spiritscapes 14. Living Landscapes of the Dead: Archaeology of the Afterworld among the Rumu of Papua New Guinea 15. Visions of the Cosmos: Ceremonial Landscapes and Civic Plans 16. Quarried Away: Thinking about Landscapes of Megalithic Construction on Easter Island 17. Object Fragmentation and Past Landscapes 18. Boundaries and the Archaeology of Frontier Zones 19. The Archaeology of Territory and Territoriality 20. Marks of Possession: The Archaeology of Territory and Cross-Cultural Encounter in Australia and South Africa 21. From Physical to Social Landscapes: Multidimensional Approaches to the Archaeology of Social Place in the European Upper Palaeolithic 22. The Use of Ethnography in Landscape Archaeology Part IV. Living Landscapes: The Body and the Experience of Place 23. Gender in Landscape Archaeology 24. Hidden Landscapes of the Body 25. The Body and the Senses: Implications for Landscape Archaeology 26. Phenomenological Approaches to Landscape Archaeology 27. Memory, Place, and the Memorialization of Landscape 28. Virtual Reality, Visual Envelopes, and Characterizing Landscape 29. Landscape and Personhood 30. Archaeology, Landscape, and Dwelling 31. Building and Architecture as Landscape Practice 32. Farming, Herding, and the Transformation of Human Landscapes in Southwestern Asia 33. Domesticated Landscapes 34. Punctuated Landscapes: Creating Cultural Places in Volcanically Active Environments Part V. Characterizing Landscapes 35. Dating in Landscape Archaeology 36. Stratigraphy, Depositional Environments, and Palaeolandscape 36 Reconstruction in Landscape Archaeology 37. Geographical Scale in Understanding Human Landscapes 38. Landscape and Climate Change 39. Human Behavioral Ecology and the Use of Ancient Landscapes 40. Desert Landscapes in Archaeology: A Case Study from the Negev 41. Landscapes of Fire: Origins, Politics, and Questions 42. Microbotanical Remains in Landscape Archaeology 43. Beyond Economy: Seed Analysis in Landscape Archaeology 44. The Use of Wood Charcoal in Landscape Archaeology 45. Terrestrial Invertebrates in Landscape Archaeology 46. Environmental Archaeology: Interpreting Practices-in-the-Landscape through Geoarchaeology 47. The Archaeology of Wetland Landscapes: Method and Theory at the Beginning of the 21st Century 48. Lithics and Landscape Archaeology 49. The Use of Human Skeletal Remains in Landscape Archaeology 50. Using DNA in Landscape Archaeology 51. Sourcing Techniques in Landscape Archaeology 52. Tracking Ancient Routes ac ross Polynesian Seascapes with Basalt Artifact Geochemistry 53. The Uses of Archaeological Faunal Remains in Landscape Archaeology 54. Survey Strategies in Landscape Archaeology 55. Noninvasive Subsurface Mapping Techniques, Satellite and Aerial Imagery in Landscape Archaeology 56. Geographical Information Systems and Landscape Archaeology 57. Ploughzone Archaeology in Historical Archaeology 58. Landscape Formation Processes 59. Counter-Mapping in the Archaeological Landscape Part VI. Nonlevel Playing Fields: Diversities, Inequalities, and Power Relations in Landscape Archaeology 60. Landscapes of Power, Institution, and Incarceration 61. Cultural Resource Management and the Protection of Valued Tribal Spaces: A View from the Western United States 62. When a Stone Tool Is a Dingo: Country and Relatedness in Australian Aboriginal Notions of Landscape 63. Imagined Landscapes: Edges of the (Un)Known 64. Topographies of Values: Ethical Issues in Landscape Archaeology 65. Contested Landscapes—Rights to History, Rights to Place: Who Controls Archaeological Places?
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ISBN
9781598742947
Publisert
2008-12-15
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Left Coast Press Inc
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1383 gr
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254 mm
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178 mm
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E, P, 04, 06
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Engelsk
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720

Biographical note

BRUNO DAVID is Co-Director of the Programme for Australian Indigenous Archaeology at Monash University. His latest books are Landscapes, Rock Art, and the Dreaming (2002); The Social Archaeology of Australian Indigenous Societies (2006); and Gelam’s Homeland (2008). JULIAN THOMAS is Chair of Archaeology at Manchester University and a Vice President of the Royal Anthropological Institute. His primary research interests are with the Neolithic period in Britain and northwest Europe and with theory and philosophy of archaeology. His recent publications include Understanding the Neolithic (1999), Archaeology and Modernity (2004), and Place and Memory: Excavations at the Pict’s Knowe, Holywood, and Holm Farm (2007).