Envisioning landscape : situations and standpoints in archaeology and heritage / / edited by Dan Hicks, Laura McAtackney and Graham Fairclough

• Pubblicazione: London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2016
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (302 p.)
• Disciplina: 930.1
• Soggetto topico: Landscape archaeology; Landscape assessment; Urban archaeology; Archaeology and history
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Altri autori: FaircloughG. J (Graham J.) HicksDan <1972-> McAtackneyLaura <1977->
• Note generali: First published 2007 by Left Coast Press, Inc.; Papers originally presented at the 5th World Archaeological Congress in Washington, D.C. in June 2003.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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,
• Titolo autorizzato: Envisioning landscape
• ISBN: 1-315-42952-7; 1-315-42953-5; 1-59874-785-1
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910457082403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: One world archaeology ; ; 52.