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Viewing space
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Title:
Viewing space
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Series:
World Archaeology
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Volume:
39 (1)
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Publication Type:
Journal
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Editor:
Chris Gosden
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Issue Editor:
M W Lake
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Routledge Journals
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Year of Publication:
2007
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Is Portmanteau: 1
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BIAB (The British & Irish Archaeological Bibliography (BIAB))
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http://www.informaworld.com/1470-1375
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Created Date:
21 May 2007
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Viewing space
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Special issue of papers on the importance of considering what can (or could) be seen when interpreting the human use of space; including
Seeing is perceiving?
Catherine Frieman
Mark Gillings
4 - 16
it is argued that current archaeological concerns with viewing and all things visual are predicated upon a series of assumptions that have so far escaped serious consideration, and that this resulted from the way in which concerns with mapping and analysing patterns of seeing and looking in the past emerged before any broader critical consideration of the senses per se. It is also argued that to place an interpretative premium upon viewing space is to accept that vision as a perceptual category was meaningful to those under study, and that it, above all else, shaped and structured understanding to the point that it can profitably be represented and analysed in complete isolation from all other sensory stimuli. In this paper the authors argue that vision should be folded back into the mix of the sensorium, and sketch two potential pathways for achieving this
Reconstructing visual landscapes
Marcos Llobera
51 - 69
the paper reiterates the importance of studying past visibility patterns within the context of landscape archaeology. In spite of the many difficulties and criticisms revolving around this topic, efforts aimed at reconstructing these patterns and exploring their possible roles are considered to be central to the reconstruction of social landscapes. The paper extends previous GIS work done on inter-visibility by making reference to the concept of 'co-visibility', by exploring the way in which visibility of any monument or set of monuments is shared with that of other monuments. A subset of round barrows from the Yorkshire Wolds is used to illustrate this work. The study also underlines the need to address the variability which is often present in archaeological data, variability, in this case, of visibility patterns associated with the barrows due to the lack of precise chronological information
The significance of `invisible' places
David Fontijn
70 - 83
the paper argues that invisible places could have been just as important in ritual landscapes as the visible monuments that are usually studied. It does so by means of a case study on the Bronze Age of the southern Netherlands, where the author contrasts the two most widespread `ritual' places: barrows and deposition sites. Barrows were meant to be visible, lasting places with lengthy histories and an important structuring role in the landscape. Deposition sites were `invisible' sites, lacking lasting man-made markers. They nevertheless had use histories and landscape-structuring roles comparable to those of visible monuments. The contrasts between barrows and depositions are discussed to find out why these coexisting practices had such different results
Seeing and believing: visuality and space in pre-modern England
Kate Giles
105 - 121
it is argued that approaches and techniques of visual analysis often apply modern ways of thinking about sight and space to the pre-modern past, thereby ignoring important debates in other disciplines about the historicity of these concepts. Using the case studies of two schemes of medieval wall paintings in Pickering church (North Yorkshire) and the Guild Chapel, Stratford-upon-Avon, the paper argues that archaeologists should engage more critically with this issue. Throughout, the idea of a `palimpsest' is used, both as a metaphor for the physical layers of plaster which overlie medieval wall paintings and as an analogy for the process of archaeological interpretation itself