Mobile Landscapes and Their Enduring Places

This Element explores the latest transdisciplinary ideas and methods that enable archaeologists to tell the stories of cultural landscapes.

Bruno David (Author), Jean-Jacques Delannoy (Author), Jessie Birkett-Rees (Author)

9781009467797, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 4 April 2024

110 pages
23.5 x 16.1 x 1.2 cm, 0.31 kg

This Element presents emerging concepts and analytical tools in landscape archaeology. In three major sections bookended by an Introduction and Conclusion, the Element discusses current and emerging ideas and methods by which to explore how people in the past engaged with each other and their physical settings across the landscape, creating their lived environments in the process. The Element reviews the scales and temporalities that inform the study of human movements in and between places. Learning about how people engaged with each other at individual sites and across the landscape deep in the past is best achieved through transdisciplinary approaches, in which archaeologists integrate their methods with those of other specialists. The Element introduces these ideas through new research and multiple case studies from around the world, culminating in how to 'archaeomorphologically' map anthropic constructions in caves and their contemporary environments.

1. Introduction
2. Moving across the landscape: the temporality of place
3. The physical landscapes of past societies
4. Mappings: archaeomorphology and the created environment
5. Conclusion
References.

Subject Areas: Archaeology [HD]