Special issue

Special issue celebrating the first ten years of the journal, and marking the retirement of Barbara Bender as editor. The articles were first presented as papers at a research seminar at University College London in March 2005, and examine the multidisciplinary theme of landscape, place, heritage and social identity; they include

This article opens with a story of the mobility and varied temporalities of a particular landscape (Skiddaw in the Lake District) and uses this to reflect on a range of issues that revolve around the different kinds of '`grounding' that are appealed to in sociocultural, political and academic life. It reflects upon the relations between human and natural sciences, the nature of appeals between them, and the important, but often questionable, place within this of particular political positions. It goes on to query the role of `Nature' as a grounding to place and landscape and stresses the potentially differential effectivities of contrasting temporalities -- between, for example, the temporalities of the taskspace and the temporalities of tectonics. Nonetheless, the argument continues, there are indeed provocations from the moving rocks to the nature of scientific discourse and to debates within political philosophy. It concludes with a conceptualization of both landscape and place as events

the article demonstrates the inherent relations between landscape, myth and time. In particular, the author highlights that what goes on `inside' of myths is systematically connected to what occurs `outside': how the intimate features of landscape form a kind of prism through which wider influences might be understood (Melanesian data)

the author argues that, although the temporality of the landscape has become a major concern for archaeologists, the temporal quality of art images has not been fully appreciated, and that this issue is especially pressing when prehistoric rock art is analysed in a landscape setting. The article offers a critique of current semiological approaches to prehistoric art and suggests an alternative in the study of signs as indexes as proposed by the American philosopher Charles Sanders Peirce. An indexical analysis of prehistoric rock art and its relationship to monuments in the landscape of Kilmartin, Argyll, Scotland provides an enriched understanding of the relationships produced by marking the landscape