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Archaeology, landscape and aesthetics

open access: yesCogent Arts and Humanities, 2015
This paper examines the role, if any, of aesthetic reflections in the discipline of landscape archaeology. It begins by rejecting the charge that archaeologists should set aside their own aesthetic sensibility when studying landscapes. The bulk of the paper, however, is concerned with arguing that attention to the aesthetic sensibilities of the peoples
Peter Stanley Fosl
exaly   +3 more sources

Editorial. Landscape & Archaeology [PDF]

open access: yesSCIRES-IT - SCIentific RESearch and Information Technology, 2016
This number of SCIRES-IT summarises the most significant outcomes from the conference Landscape & Archaeology - En Route, held in June 2016 in Italy. The conference aimed at undertaking smart and sustainable experiences linking landscape and archaeology. The key topics, discussed during the itinerant event were: Smart Landscape, Archaeology and digital
Clini, Paolo   +2 more
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Landscape, Archaeology, Heritage [PDF]

open access: yes, 1997
[ES] En este texto se presentan algunas sugerencias y apuntes para repensar la Arqueología del Paisaje como una contribución al estudio de las dimensiones sociales y simbólicas de la espacialidad humana pretérita. Aunque brevemente, se consideran dos temas principales: la interpretación de y contrucción de conocimiento sobre el registro arqueológico a ...
Amado Reino, Xesús   +10 more
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Landscape Archaeology between Art and Science [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
Researchers in landscape archaeology use two different definitions of landscape. One definition (landscape as territory) is used by the processual archaeologists, earth scientists, and most historical geographers within this volume.

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Tectonic Archaeology as a Foundation for Geoarchaeology

open access: yes, 2021
This article proposes a new subdiscipline, Tectonic Archaeology, based on the efforts of Japanese archaeologists to deal with the effects of earthquakes, volcanic tephra cover, and tsunami on archaeological sites.
Gina L. Barnes
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From a landscape symbolic archaeology to an archaeology of sacred landscapes

open access: yesTrabajos de Prehistoria, 1997
This paper deals with the different models of landscapes found in the Prehistory and History of the northwest area of the Iberian Peninsula. We consider both the pattern of settlement and land-use and the arrangement of supralocal territorial units. This study particularly focuses on the form of a symbolic or sacred landscape in a specific part of our ...
Santos Estevez, Manuel   +2 more
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Archaeologies of Landscape [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Material Culture, 2010
This article interrogates the materiality of Hadrian’s Wall beyond its widespread perception as a monument of/to Ancient Rome. Encounters with this monument have generated multitudinous materialities: hegemonic, conflicting and ambiguous. These trajectories have their own material circulations in both solid and narrative forms.
Witcher, R. E.   +2 more
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Landscape Archaeology

open access: yes, 2014
An ever-present characteristic in any definition of landscape archaeology is that it refers to a varied and somewhat heterogeneous field of archaeological research. A number of approaches to the archaeological record may be included under this label, which in essence share one common interest: the analysis, through material culture, of the spatial ...
Parcero-Oubiña, César   +2 more
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Site data from an Archaeological Evaluation at Didcot Road, Harwell, Oxfordshire 2020

open access: yes, 2021
This collection comprises site data (reports, images and gis) deriving from an archaeological evaluation at Land East of Didcot Road, Harwell, Oxfordshire, undertook by Oxford Archaeology (OA) on behalf of RPS Group Ltd in September 2020.The site lies ...
Oxford Archaeology (South)
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Making space for an archaeology of place

open access: yes, 2004
Rather than attempt to write a balanced or complete overview of the application of GIS to archaeology (which would inevitably end up being didactic and uncritical) this article sets out to present a discursive and contentious position with the deliberate
David Wheatley, Wheatley, David
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