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Title Envisioning landscape : situations and standpoints in archaeology and heritage / edited by Dan Hicks, Laura McAtackney and Graham Fairclough
Published Walnut Creek, Calif. : Left Coast Press, ©2007

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Description 1 online resource (297 pages) : illustrations, maps
Series One world archaeology series ; 52
One world archaeology ; 52.
Contents Introduction : landscapes as standpoints / Dan Hicks and Laura McAtackney -- The contemporary politics of landscape at the Long Kesh/Maze Prison site, Northern Ireland / Laura McAtackney -- Facing many ways : approaches to the archaeological landscapes of the East African coast / Sarah Croucher -- Landscape archaeology in Lower Manhattan : the collect pond as an evolving cultural landmark in early New York City / Rebecca Yamin and Joseph Schuldenrein -- Cultural landscapes, communities and world heritage : in pursuit of the local in the Tsodilo Hills, Botswana / Susan O. Keitumetse, Geoffrey Matlapeng and Leseka Monamo -- Common culture : the archaeology of landscape character in European archaeology / Sam Turner and Graham Fairclough -- Landscape archaeology and 'community areas' in the archaeology of Central Europe / Martin Kuna and Dagmar Dreslerová -- Historical archaeologies of landscape in Atlantic Africa / Kenneth G. Kelly and Neil Norman -- Landscape, time, topology : an archaeological account of the Southern Argolid, Greece / Christopher L. Witmore -- A landscape of ruins : building historic Annapolis / Christopher Matthews and Matthew Palus -- Colonialism and landscape : power, materiality and scales of analysis in Caribbean historical archaeology / Mark W. Hauser and Dan Hicks
Summary The common feature of landscape archaeology is its diversity - of method, field location, disciplinary influences and contemporary voices. The contributors to this volume take advantage of these many strands to investigate landscape archaeology in its multiple forms, focusing primarily on the link to heritage, the impact on our understanding of temporality, and the situated theory that arises out of landscape studies. Using examples from New York to Northern Ireland, Africa to the Argolid, these pieces capture the human significance of material objects in support of a more comprehensive,
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Landscape archaeology -- Congresses
Landscape assessment -- Congresses
Urban archaeology -- Congresses
Archaeology and history -- Congresses
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Archaeology.
Archaeology and history
Landscape archaeology
Landscape assessment
Urban archaeology
Genre/Form Electronic books
Conference papers and proceedings
Form Electronic book
Author Hicks, Dan, 1972-
McAtackney, Laura, 1977-
Fairclough, G. J. (Graham J.)
World Archaeological Congress (5th : 2003 : Washington, D.C.)
LC no. 2007022702
ISBN 9781598747850
1598747851