Places are social, lived, ideational landscapes constructed by people as they inhabit their natural and built environment. An archaeology of place attempts to move beyond the understanding of the landscape as inert background or static fossil of human behaviour. From a specifically mortuary perspective, this approach entails a focus on the inherently mutable, transient and performative qualities of 'deathscapes': how they are remembered, obliterated, forgotten, reworked, or revisited over time. Despite latent interest in this line of enquiry, few studies have explored the topic explicitly...
Places are social, lived, ideational landscapes constructed by people as they inhabit their natural and built environment. An archaeology of place ...