Envisioning Landscape: Situations and Standpoints in Archaeology and Heritage

by Hicks,Dan; Hicks,Dan

• ISBN13: 9781598742824
• ISBN10: 1598742825
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2009-04-30
• Publisher: Routledge

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 and from Africa to the Argolid, these pieces capture the human significance of material objects in support of a more comprehensive, nuanced archaeology.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	p. 7
Acknowledgements	p. 11
Introduction: Landscapes as Standpoints	p. 13
The Contemporary Politics of Landscape at the Long Kesh/Maze Prison Site, Northern Ireland	p. 30
Facing Many Ways: Approaches to the Archaeological Landscapes of the East African Coast	p. 55
Landscape Archaeology in Lower Manhattan: The Collect Pond as an Evolving Cultural Landmark in Early New York City	p. 75
Cultural Landscapes, Communities and World Heritage: In Pursuit of the Local in the Tsodilo Hills, Botswana	p. 101
Common Culture: The Archaeology of Landscape Character in Europe	p. 120
Landscape Archaeology and ‘Community Areas’ in the Archaeology of Central Europe	p. 146
Historical Archaeologies of Landscape in Atlantic Africa	p. 172
Landscape, Time, Topology: An Archaeological Account of the Southern Argolid Greece	p. 194
A Landscape of Ruins: Building Historic Annapolis	p. 226
Colonialism and Landscape: Power, Materiality and Scales of Analysis in Caribbean Historical Archaeology	p. 251
Index	p. 275
About the Contributors	p. 299
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