1st Edition
Landscape Archaeology between Art and Science From a Multi- to an Interdisciplinary Approach
590 Pages
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Routledge
Researchers in landscape archaeology use two different definitions of landscape. One definition (landscape as territory) is used by the processual archaeologists, earth scientists, and most historical geographers within this volume. By contrast, post-processual archaeologists, new cultural geographers and anthropologists favour a more abstract definition of landscape, based on how it is perceived... Read more
Preface, Introduction: LAC2010: First International Landscape Archaeology Conference, Theme I: How did landscape change?, Theme II: Improving temporal, chronological and transformational frameworks, Theme III: Linking landscapes of lowlands to mountainous areas, Theme IV: Applying concepts of scale, Theme V: New directions in digital prospection and modelling techniques, Theme VI: How will landscape archaeology develop in the future?
Biography
Sjoerd Kluiving is Assistant Professor at the Institute for Geo- and Bioarchaeology at VU University Amsterdam, the Netherlands, and is also Director of GEO-LOGICAL, an earth scientific research consultancy in Delft, the Netherlands. Erika Guttmann-Bond is Senior Lecturer at the School of Archaeology, History and Anthropology at the University of Wales Trinity Saint David in the UK, as well as Professor of Landscape Archaeology at VU University Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Mingquan Zhou is professor at the College of Information Science and Technology, Beijing Normal University.
