1st Edition

Envisioning Landscape Situations and Standpoints in Archaeology and Heritage

Edited By Dan Hicks, Laura McAtackney, Graham Fairclough Copyright 2007
304 Pages
by Routledge

304 Pages
by Routledge

304 Pages
by Routledge

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... Read more
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.

Biography

Laura McAtackney, Dan Hicks, Graham Fairclough