Envisioning landscape : situations and standpoints in archaeology and heritage / edited by Dan Hicks, Laura McAtackney and Graham Fairclough.

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Contributor:

Fairclough, G. J. (Graham J.)

Hicks, Dan, 1972-

McAtackney, Laura, 1977-

Conference Name:

World Archaeological Congress (5th : 2003 : Washington, D.C.)

Series:

One world archaeology ; 52.

One world archaeology series ; 52

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Landscape archaeology--Congresses.

Landscape archaeology.

Landscape assessment--Congresses.

Landscape assessment.

Urban archaeology--Congresses.

Urban archaeology.

Archaeology and history--Congresses.

Archaeology and history.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (302 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2016.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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,

Contents:

Introduction : landscapes as standpoints / Dan Hicks and Laura McAtackney

The contemporary politics of landscape at the Long Kesh/Maze Prison site, Northern Ireland / Laura McAtackney

Facing many ways : approaches to the archaeological landscapes of the East African coast / Sarah Croucher

Landscape archaeology in Lower Manhattan : the collect pond as an evolving cultural landmark in early New York City / Rebecca Yamin and Joseph Schuldenrein

Cultural landscapes, communities and world heritage : in pursuit of the local in the Tsodilo Hills, Botswana / Susan O. Keitumetse, Geoffrey Matlapeng and Leseka Monamo

Common culture : the archaeology of landscape character in European archaeology / Sam Turner and Graham Fairclough

Landscape archaeology and 'community areas' in the archaeology of Central Europe / Martin Kuna and Dagmar Dreslerová

Historical archaeologies of landscape in Atlantic Africa / Kenneth G. Kelly and Neil Norman

Landscape, time, topology : an archaeological account of the Southern Argolid, Greece / Christopher L. Witmore

A landscape of ruins : building historic Annapolis / Christopher Matthews and Matthew Palus

Colonialism and landscape : power, materiality and scales of analysis in Caribbean historical archaeology / Mark W.Hauser and Dan Hicks.

Notes:

First published 2007 by Left Coast Press, Inc.

Papers originally presented at the 5th World Archaeological Congress in Washington, D.C. in June 2003.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-315-42951-9

1-315-42952-7

1-315-42953-5

1-59874-785-1

9781315429533

OCLC:

647917538