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Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory 19 (4)
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Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory 19 (4)
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Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory
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19 (4)
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121
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2012
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31 Mar 2013
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In search of the middle ground; quantitative spatial techniques and experiential t...
Dorothy Graves McEwan
Kirsty Millican
491 - 494
Reports on a conference held at the University of Aberdeen, Scotland, focusing on the possibilities and potentials of combining quantitative spatial studies with more human-centred and theoretically explicit approaches to past landscapes. Outlines the main themes and goals of the conference and the resultant papers, published here as a special issue.\r\n
Life on a pixel; challenges in the development of digital methods w...
Marcos Llobera
495 - 509
Provides a personal account of the challenges of developing digital methods within an interpretive landscape archaeology framework. Reviews current criticisms leveled against the use of model-based tools, e.g., GIS-based, within this framework. Currently, the absence of, or distance between, methods and theory is considered to be an important limitation when adopting such orientation. This gap is largely due to the particular nature of the theoretical sources informing this framework. Suggests the need for middle ground/bridging concepts, i.e., concepts that enable the instantiation within concrete archaeological contexts of various aspects discussed within an interpretative framework, as a way to shorten this gap. Also highlights the importance of the nature of representations when applying digital methods and their key role when producing new archaeological information. Finally, attempts to elevate the role that model-based methods and simulations can play within an interpretive landscape framework, and to insist on the development of new middle ground solutions (methods and concepts) when existing tools do not meet our theoretical challenges.\r\n
Landscape, experience and GIS; exploring the potential for methodological dialogu...
Rebecca Rennell
510 - 525
Over the last 15 years, an interest in perceptions and experiences of landscape has emerged as in important area of archaeological research. Experiential landscape archae- ology ultimately owes its background to the concerns raised as part of the post- processual critique, as well as a range of phenomenological philosophies and social theories emphasising the importance of human experience in our understanding of the past. Current archaeological practice provides two contrasting methods for investigating this type of landscape experience. One approach is rooted in the analysis of subject- centred field observations, inspired more directly by phenomenological arguments or positions. The other has emerged out of the application of Geographical Information Systems (hereafter GIS) and the increasing ability of this technology (or practitioners of this technology more specifically) to model human scales of geographical space and elements of human experience. Despite a number of shared objectives, there remains very little productive discourse between the respective advocates of these positions. Attempts to communicate across this perceived boundary.
Qualitative landscape theories and archaeological predictive modelling'”a journey through no man's land?
Dorothy Graves McEwan
526 - 547
An approach to test and interpret geographic information system-based, quantitative archaeological predictive models using techniques from qualitative (experiential) landscape theory is described and demonstrated via a case study. The intended result is the transformation of statistical output from quantitative predictive models into more archaeologically meaningful interpretations of spatial data.
The outside inside; combining aerial photographs, cropmarks and landsc...
Kirsty Millican
548 - 563
Seeks to make a contribution to current debates concerning the dislocation in landscape research between experiential approaches and quantitative techniques of landscape analysis. Focuses upon a group of archaeological sites that are caught in the centre of this divide: plough-levelled sites recorded as cropmarks on aerial photographs. The application of experiential landscape analysis to plough-levelled sites is explored, along with the value of incorporating information derived from the study of the aerial photograph. It is contended that richer, more rounded, interpretations of landscape are possible when combining aspects of quantitative and qualitative landscape research.
Experiencing climate; finding weather in eighteenth century Cumbria
Toby Pillatt
564 - 581
Examines whether Tim Ingold's concept of the 'weather-world' can be applied within discussions of climate in archaeology. Using a case study of eighteenth century Cumbria, first looks at the issues arising when environmental models are used to investigate landscape change. Then assesses the insights on landscape, weather and farming that can be gained from two historical diaries. It is recognised that advances in complex ecosystem and agent-based modelling have improved 'climate change archaeology', but that there are aspects of people's relationships with the weather and climate that are ill-suited to quantification. Concludes by arguing that people's qualitative engagements with the weather are integral to how past people viewed and used the landscape.\r\n
Augmenting phenomenology; using augmented reality to aid archaeological phen...
S Eve
582 - 600
Explorations of perception using GIS have traditionally been based on vision and analysis confined to the computer laboratory. In contrast, phenomenological analyses of archaeological landscapes are normally carried out within the particular landscape itself; and computer analysis away from the landscape in question is often seen as anathema to such attempts. Presents initial research that aims to bridge this gap by using augmented reality (AR). AR attempts to merge the real world with virtual elements, including 3D models, soundscapes, and social media. In this way, aspects of GIS analysis that would usually require being at a desk can be experienced directly in the field at the time of investigation.
Landscape phenomenology, GIS and the role of affordance
Mark Gillings
601 - 611
Argues that rather than attempting to connect Geographic Information System (GIS) and experiential theory researchers in archaeological GIS should instead begin to build their own theoretical frameworks. To this end, a discussion of affordance (and its potential application in the field of experiential analysis) is offered.
