Envisioning Landscape: Situations and Standpoints in Archaeology and Heritage / Edition 1

by Dan Hicks, Laura McAtackney, Graham Fairclough

Overview

The common feature of landscape archaeology is its diversity – of method, field location, disciplinary influences and contemporary voices. The contributors to this volume take advantage of these many strands to investigate landscape archaeology in its multiple forms, focusing primarily on the link to heritage, the impact on our understanding of temporality, and the situated theory that arises out of landscape studies. Using examples from New York to Northern Ireland, Africa to the Argolid, these pieces capture the human significance of material objects in support of a more comprehensive, nuanced archaeology.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781598742824
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	04/30/2009
Series:	One World Archaeology , #52
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	304
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

Laura McAtackney, Dan Hicks, Graham Fairclough

Table of Contents

Introduction: Landscapes as Standpoints, The Contemporary Politics of Landscape at the Long Kesh/Maze Prison Site, Northern Ireland, Facing Many Ways: Approaches to the Archaeological Landscapes of the East African Coast, Landscape Archaeology in Lower Manhattan: The Collect Pond as an Evolving Cultural Landmark in Early New York City Landscape, Communities and World Heritage: In Pursuit of the Local in the Tsodilo Hills, Botswana, Common Culture: Time Depth and Landscape Character in European Archaeology, Landscape Archaeology and 'Community Areas' in the Archaeology of Central Europe, Historical Archaeologies of Landscape in Atlantic Africa, Landscape, Time, Topology: An Archaeological Account of the Southern Argolid, Greece, A Landscape of Ruins: Building Historic Annapolis, Colonialism and Landscape: Power, Materiality and Scales of Analysis in Caribbean Historical Archaeology, Index, About the Authors.

Editorial Reviews

"These rich and diverse papers examine landscape in archaeology from a variety of perspectives and in many different parts of the world. They include both valuable reviews of the history of landscape studies and thoughtful suggestions for directions for future research, especially through connections between landscape and time, identity, and politics. Envisioning Landscape will be of great interest to archaeologists, historians and geographers, and others concerned with the changing relationships between humans and the world they live in—past, present, and future." —Peter S. Wells, University of Minnesota


"This new volume in the One World Archaeology series is a significant addition to the field of landscape archaeology. Case studies and sites range from the icon (Historic Annapolis, the Tsodilo Hills) to the new and challenging (the Maze Prison, Northern Island). Its signal contribution lies in engaging with and interrogating formulations of landscape, even as it clears a space for exciting new approaches. This should be considered an essential work for library collections and university reading lists." —Nick Shepherd, University of Cape Town


Envisioning Landscape offers a range of perspectives that can feed into thinking through the process of doing archaeology and that cause us to rethink those categories — of site, of object, and of landscape — that we habitually apply. -Dr. John Carman, Conservation and Management of Archaeological Sites

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