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,...
The common feature of landscape archaeology is its diversity - of method, field location, disciplinary influences and contemporary voices. The contrib...
This book explores cultural sustainability and its relationships to heritage from a wide interdisciplinary perspective. By examining the interactions between people and communities in the places where they live it exemplifies the diverse ways in which a people-centred heritage builds identities and supports individual and collective memories. It encourages a view of heritage as a process that contributes through cultural sustainability to human well-being and socially- and culturally-sensitive policy.
With theoretically-informed case studies from leading researchers, the book...
This book explores cultural sustainability and its relationships to heritage from a wide interdisciplinary perspective. By examining the interactio...
This multi-authored book by senior practioners and researchers provides the first international overview of landscape character approaches for practitioners, policy-makers and researchers.
During the past three decades the idea of landscape has moved from a relatively straightforward, if narrow, focus on natural beauty or scenery to a much broader concept of landscape s character as the sum of all its parts, as a complex whole that through human perception transcends its individual elements. Methods, tools and techniques are therefore needed to assess and utilise this idea of landscape...
This multi-authored book by senior practioners and researchers provides the first international overview of landscape character approaches for prac...
