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9780631211068

Archaeologies of Landscape Contemporary Perspectives

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  • ISBN13:

    9780631211068

  • ISBN10:

    0631211063

  • Edition: 1st
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 1999-10-29
  • Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
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Summary

This book offers new and diverse perspectives on the ideational qualities of past landscapes.

Author Biography

Wendy Ashmore is a professor of Maya archaeology at the University of California, Riverside. She has been involved in excavations in Belize, Guatemala, and Honduras. Her research focuses on the implications that spaces, settlement patterns, and gender can have on social organization. A. Bernard Knapp is the editor of Archaeologies of Landscape: Contemporary Perspectives, published by Wiley.

Table of Contents

Preface ix
Wendy Ashmore
A. Bernard Knapp
Archaeological Landscapes: Constructed, Conceptualized, Ideational
1(32)
A. Bernard Knapp
Wendy Ashmore
Part I Ethnographic and Historical Cases
Identifying Ancient Sacred Landscapes in Australia: From Physical to Social
33(25)
Paul S. C. Tacon
Creating Social Identity in the Landscape: Tidewater, Virginia, 1600-1750
58(25)
Lisa Kealhofer
Conceptual Landscapes in the Egyptian Nile Valley
83(18)
Janet E. Richards
Buddhist Landscapes of East Asia
101(23)
Gina L. Barnes
Mountains, Caves, Water: Ideational Landscapes of the Ancient Maya
124(25)
James E. Brady
Wendy Ashmore
Part II Protohistoric/Ethnohistoric Cases
The Inca Cognition of Landscape: Archaeology, Ethnohistory, and the Aesthetic of Alterity
149(20)
Maarten van de Guchte
The Ideology of Settlement: Ancestral Keres Landscapes in the Northern Rio Grande
169(32)
James E. Snead
Robert W. Preucel
Part III Prehistoric Cases
Centering the Ancestors: Cemeteries, Mounds, and Sacred Landscapes of the Ancient North American Midcontinent
201(28)
Jane E. Buikstra
Douglas K. Charles
Ideational and Industrial Landscape on Prehistoric Cyprus
229(24)
A. Bernard Knapp
The Mythical Landscapes of the British Iron Age
253(16)
John C. Barrett
Part IV Commentaries
Sacred Landscapes: Constructed and Conceptualized
269(8)
Carole L. Crumley
Exploring Everyday Places and Cosmologies
277(9)
Peter van Dommelen
Index 286

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