Landscapes Under Pressure

by Lozny, Ludomir R.

• ISBN13: 9780387284606
• ISBN10: 0387284605
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-02-01
• Publisher: Springer Nature

Summary

There is a growing realization that human intent and activity are not easily separated from natural forces in the shaping of landscapes. The pervasive Western dichotomy of culture and nature has proved to be a poor basis for scientific research and long-term environmental management. Humans have been major factors in environmental change for thousands of years using fire, intensive hunting and a wide range of agricultural strategies to transform most ecosystems on the earth long before the Industrial Revolution.This book investigates the newly emerging scope of interests and project agendas to investigate and preserve cultural landscapes. It presents the historic, archaeological, ethnographic, and environmental traditions of cultural landscape study and the attempts to reconstruct and analyze the complex processes of cultural changes through prehistoric and historic times.The "guiding light" of the book is that the fullest understanding of a cultural landscape will materialize through interdisciplinary cooperation, which should involve historical ecology, rescue archaeology, and environmental planning.

Table of Contents

Introduction	xi
Ludomir R. Lozny
PART I THEORY
Introduction	3	(90)
Ludomir R. Lozny
1 Place, Problem, and People: Issues in Interdisciplinary Cooperation	5	(10)
Thomas H. McGovern
2 Place, Historical Ecology and Cultural Landscape: New Directions for Culture Resource Management	15	(12)
Ludomir R. Lozny
3 The Colonial Southwest: Pueblo and Spanish Shared and Separate Landscapes	27	(28)
Nan A. Rothschild
4 A New Landscape for Cultural Heritage Management: Characterisation as a Management Tool	55	(20)
Graham Fairclough
5 The Idea of the Site: History, Heritage, and Locality in Community Archaeology	75	(18)
Christopher N. Matthews
PART II METHODOLOGY AND PRACTICE
Introduction	93	(70)
Ludomir R. Lozny
6 Changing Places: A Cultural Geography of Nineteenth-Century Zuni, New Mexico	97	(18)
Susan-Allette Dublin
7 Envisioning Future Landscapes in the Environmentally Sensitive Areas of Scotland: An Introduction	115	(20)
Ian A. Simpson, David Parsisson, Nick Hanley, and Craig H. Bullock
8 Critical Data for Understanding Early Central European Farmers	135	(14)
Peter Bogucki
9 Alternative Archaeologies of the Cold War: The Preliminary Results of Fieldwork at the Greenham and Nevada Peace Camps	149	(14)
John Schofield, Colleen Beck, and Harold Drollinger
10 Building on the Past: The Archaeology of Large-Scale Transportation-Related Corridors	163	(20)
Thomas E. Emerson and John A. Walthall
PART III LEGAL, ECONOMIC AND POLITICAL CONSTRAINS OF CULTURAL HERITAGE PRESERVATION PROGRAMS
Introduction	183	(2)
Ludomir R. Lozny
11 Private Sector Archaeology: Part of the Problem or Part of the Solution?	185	(22)
Thomas R. Wheaton
12 Protection. Maintenance and Enhancement of Cultural Landscapes in Changing Social, Political and Economical Reality in Poland	207	(30)
Zbigniew Kobylinski
13 Cultural Heritage Preservation and the Legal System With Specific Reference to Landscapes	237	(12)
Thomas F. King
Afterword	249	(4)
Ludomir R. Lozny
Index	253