| Abstract: |
The authors of these papers use the term landscape in its broadest possible sense to describe the entire material, spiritual and emotional world of people in the past. Thus, human artefacts such as tools or pottery vessels are as much part of landscapes as `natural' features such as rocks, mountains, rivers and lakes. Buildings, towns and cities, trackways and roads, animals and plants all form part of the human experience of landscapes, as do memories, myths, and stories. Many archaeologists have argued for a much closer integration of artefactual, contextual and visual information within the text, and for ways of writing that transcend the limitations of conventional reports; the authors have therefore aimed to produce a different kind of archaeology book. Some papers are highly interpretative, but based on empirical fieldwork carried out by the authors or others. Some papers are more experimental explorations of how landscapes are inhabited and viewed. Throughout the volume, the contributors combine innovative ways of writing about the past with greater and more integrated use of photographs and drawings. These images have a dynamic relationship with the text, and are themselves part of a dynamic dialogue, integral to the explorations of inhabitation, identity, space and place. Includes |
