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	Landscape archaeology - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Landscape archaeology is a body of method and theory for the study of the material traces of past peoples within the context of their interactions in the wider (typically regional) social and natural environment they inhabited.
		The landscape may be large, such as a wide marshy river delta, or small, such as a back garden; the key feature that distinguishes landscape archaeology from (e.g.) site-based approaches is that there is an explicit emphasis on the study of the relationships between archaeological data (e.g.
		Landscape archaeology has also been adopted on a smaller scale in parks and gardens for example where relatively modern planting and landscaping have been surveyed to provide information on the historic form of gardens.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Landscape_archaeology (526 words)

	Landscape Archaeology
		Landscape archaeology is the study and interpretation of past landscapes through the recovery of physical and historical evidence.
		Landscape archaeology has included excavations of Near Eastern palace gardens, the backyards of Pompeii, the field systems of Mesoamerica, and the gardens of America’s colonial gentry.
		This course covers a range of topics within landscape archaeology that relate to core principles of the field of archaeology: stewardship of the landscapes through managing and protecting cultural resources, working with descendant communities, archaeological ethics.
	www.indiana.edu /~arch/saa/matrix/la.html (145 words)

	The Antiquity of Man landscape archaeology
		The term landscape is frequently used by archaeologists to categorise an activity, whether mental or physical, that is engaged by hominids with their surrounding enviornment, i.e.
		Therefore landscape "refers to the integration of natural and human phenomena on a portion of the earth's surface Landscape, as systems of settings, are taken to be intimately related to human life, and are primarily for living and working in rather than for just looking at.
		These exercises have been collectively termed "landscape archaeology." The aim, with regard to hominid paleoenvironments, is to map the density distribution of artefacts and their compositional degree of spatial variability, explaining these sites' socio-economic function within an interpretative framework of the surrounding ecological context.
	www.antiquityofman.com /landscape_archaeology.html (5413 words)

	Monasteries and Landscapes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-22)
		Monastic archaeology of the high Middle Ages has benefited greatly from landscape archaeology, with the focus of interest moving beyond the confines of the church and cloistral ranges to explore the precinct, water management schemes, and through archaeology and historical evidence, the investigation of relationships between monasteries, monastic farms and medieval town and country.
		Landscape archaeology has had a major impact on the study of medieval people by moving the focus away from the study of elites and their residences to consider the physical environments of the 'common sort'.
		Evidence for landscaping, garden paths and flower beds, vegetation patterns, buildings, and the re-use of prehistoric and medieval features within gardens, are among the elements that are revealed by archaeological research.
	www.cardiff.ac.uk /hisar/modules/HS2395 (4216 words)

	MSc in Applied Landscape Archaeology (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-22)
		Using a multi-period systematic approach, it is concerned with understanding past human impacts on the resources, topography and environment of the whole landscape, from uplands to coasts, and from farmed landscapes to urban/industrial areas.
		This course is designed to appeal to those who already have experience of studying archaeology (or a closely-related subject) at undergraduate degree or diploma level and who wish to expand their academic, practical and professional skills in landscape archaeology.
		Gary Lock, (Director of Studies in Archaeology at OUDCE and also based at the Institute of Archaeology) is an international authority on the use of computers in archaeology, and his research includes the ‘Hillforts of the Ridgeway’ Landscape Project.
	www.conted.ox.ac.uk /courses/awardbearing/archaeology/mscala.asp (3661 words)

	Landscape of archaeology - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The landscape of archaeology is concerned with the landscape treatment of archaeological sites.
		This involves analysis, discussion, the formulation of policies and the preparation of landscape designs relating a number of issues.
		The development of the discipline of landscape archaeology has awakened interest in this question because the wider landscape is seen, correctly, as having archaeological value.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Landscape_of_archaeology (283 words)

	Landscape Archaeology
		Archaeology provides invaluable tools for examining such processes, and we can provide morphological and environmental data on past landscapes that are available from no other sources.
		Landscape archaeology thus involves the use of archaeological, documentary, and oral history evidence to study and interpret the ways past peoples shaped their landscapes through the deployment of cultural and social practices, and the ways, in turn, that such people were influenced, motivated, or constrained by their natural surroundings.
		The archaeological evidence utilized in landscape archaeology ranges across a continuum of methods including the uses of satellite and aerial imagery, ground surface surveys, topographic modeling, stratigraphic excavations, geomorphology assessments, paleoethnobotany analysis, macrofloral and microfloral studies, and ground penetrating prospection technologies.
	www.anthro.uiuc.edu /faculty/cfennell/syllabus/anth453/453syllabus.html (5519 words)

	Bristol University - Department of Archaeology and Anthropology - MA Landscape Archaeology
		One of several taught postgrduate programmes offered by Bristol, the MA in Landscape Archaeology may be taken as a full-time study (one year) or part-time (two years).
		The Landscape Archaeology MA at Bristol combines an applied and professional introduction to the principles and practice of landscape archaeology with a broad, multi-period grounding in the diverse theoretical appraoches to the 'landscape' in archaeology.
		Unit 3 introduces an interpretative framework to landscape archaeology: ritual and cognitive landscapes are discussed within prehistoric contexts, together with Bronze Age, Iron Age and Roman landscapes of Wessex.
	www.bris.ac.uk /archanth/postgrad/landscape.html (1459 words)

	Archaeology : Oxford University Graduate Studies Prospectus 2006/07
		Applied Landscape Archaeology: Applications are invited from those who have previous experience of archaeological study (or a closely related subject) for an undergraduate degree or Level 3 diploma.
		It will be relevant to those who intend to make a career in archaeology or the historic environment or to those already within these areas of employment but who wish to further their career prospects by obtaining a recognised qualification in professional archaeology.
		Focusing on the applications of research methods in varying landscape situations, it is designed to appeal to those with a personal or professional interest in landscape archaeology.
	www.admin.ox.ac.uk /postgraduate/caz/conted/arch.shtml (854 words)

	Aerial archaeology in Bohemia at the turn of the twentieth century: The integration of landscape studies and ...
		Principal characteristics of landscape archaeology and aerial photography in the introductionary part are followed by brief comparison of different level of aerial archaeology in western and eastern Europe ten years ago - when this discipline started to be effectively applied by countries once hidden beyond the Iron Curtain – and today.
		Aerial archaeology’s aim is to perform reconnaissance of landscapes (large spatial units) from bird’s eye view, to record and archive new data, to make photographic documentation of buried (or semi-buried) and standing monuments of cultural landscape, and to process the data for further application in both theoretical work and heritage management (protection).
		To further to the theoretical formulation of questions regarding landscape and settlement archaeology – the resolution of which is one of the basic tasks of Ioa – to conduct aerial surveys, to identify new settlement areas of prehistoric and/or medieval age, and to both map and process information about settlement topography.
	www.kar.zcu.cz /texty/GojdaND.htm (3096 words)

	British Archaeology magazine, December 2001 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-22)
		Grahame Clark, with palaeo-environmental colleagues, was arguably practising 'landscape archaeology' in the Fenlands in the 1930s, but the subject first reached maturity in the work of the Ordnance Survey archaeologist OGS Crawford in the middle years of the 20th century (see his Archaeology in the Field, 1953).
		As the great man always taught, landscape archaeology is not just an out-of-doors activity but a process which involves documentary and cartographic research too.
		Landscape archaeology can be carried out in any part of Britain, so long as you acquire the right frame of mind to do it.
	www.britarch.ac.uk /ba/ba62/feat2.shtml (1162 words)

	South Asian Landscape Archaeology Conference
		Landscape archaeology, for the purposes of the proposed conference, will be taken in its broadest context, to include theoretical, anthropological and ethnoarchaeological approaches, as well as field studies of archaeological sites, or systems of sites, both in their current and past landscape contexts.
		Landscapes and identity: is the concept of 'landscape' meaningful in modern or ancient contexts in South Asia?
		Participants in the conference are invited to offer a paper convering one or more of these themes, or to suggest additional themes within which their paper might be placed.
	www.ucl.ac.uk /archaeology/events/conferences/sasia.html (167 words)

	Archaeolog - all things archaeological: Some notes on archaeology's romantic landscape aesthetic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-22)
		Landscape archaeology has become a popular subdiscipline in the last twenty years.
		The legend of landscape studies in the UK – who could read the history of a nation in the traces left in its landscapes.
		This is a tension expressed in traditional archaeology by the application of the term ‘ritual’ to items that seemed inexplicable, in a popular archaeology by the view that monuments like Stonehenge or the Pyramids attest to lost or alien knowledges.
	traumwerk.stanford.edu:3455 /MichaelShanks/45 (640 words)

	Landscape Archaeology in Western Colorado, by K.L. Kvamme (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-22)
		Landscape Archaeology in Western Colorado, by K.L. Kvamme
		Between 1988 and 1996 multiple surface scatters of chipped stone, containing in excess of 27,0000 artifacts, have been mapped in a remote and arid region on the Colorado Plateau, near Grand Junction, Colorado.
		Given the rich nature of the surface archaeology, and a goal of exploring structure and organization within and between the various chipping debris scatters, full coverage survey methods were attempted.
	www.cast.uark.edu /~kkvamme/sieber/sieber.htm (1215 words)

	Landscape Detectives : Landscape Detectives : Archaeology & Buildings : Research & Conservation : English ...
		'Landscape investigation' is the term we use to describe all the skills involved in reaching an understanding of the past through analysis of what can still be seen above ground.
		Fans of Channel 4's Time Team will know the importance of Stewart Ainsworth's role as the 'landscape expert', whether the subject of the three days of filming is a prehistoric burial mound, a city-centre palace, or a Second World War bomber.
		But Landscape Investigation is about much more than technological wizardry: experience and analytical expertise are the keys to interpreting what we identify and providing new understanding.
	www.english-heritage.org.uk /server/show/conWebDoc.3249 (903 words)

	East Anglian Archaeology - Landscape
		Archaeological studies of the landscape were initiated in the 1930s but it was not until the formation of the Fenland Project in 1981 that a systematic field survey combining archaeological and environmental work was undertaken, with the aim of establishing policies for the preservation and excavation of important sites and landscapes.
		Differences between the two have been striking, with the focus of settlement shifting from the northern fen edge to the west during the Bronze Age, and the wide expanses of fen in the north serving as a barrier to communication.
		Excavation results and the documentary evidence are combined to trace the evolution of the village and its plan, from the late 7th century to the present day.
	www.eaareports.demon.co.uk /landscape.html (2872 words)

	Landscape Archaeology in West New Britain
		In contrast, our work looks at entire landscapes in an attempt to study a wider sample of human behaviour.
		Overall the history that we are slowly unravelling appears to be characterised by persistence in the face of periodic volcanic disasters combined with a gradual increase in the intensity of subsistence and a trend toward a more sedentary way of life.
		More information about the West New Britain archaeological research can be found in the ARC final report for 1996 - 1998, the 1999, 2000, and 2001 illustrated field reports, and the list of reports and publications.
	www.amonline.net.au /anthropology/research/wnb.htm (668 words)

	Landscape Archaeology: Syllabus
		Research, develop, design, and fabricate a small exhibit on landscape archaeology using PowerPoint, working in collaboration with other members of the class.
		It is expected that students will contribute their ideas, thoughts, and reflections to class discussions and exercises, and will listen respectfully to the contributions of others in the class.
		You represent such a firm and you are responding with a proposal consisting of a summary of the clients’ research questions, and your recommended research design including the use of appropriate investigative methods (ex.
	www.indiana.edu /~arch/saa/matrix/la/la_syllabus.html (3232 words)

	Achill Archaeological Field School - Home
		The Field School is based at the Achill Folklife Centre in Dooagh and at the Deserted Village of Slievemore, both of which are located in the west of Ireland on Achill Island in County Mayo.
		The Field School is involved in a study of the prehistoric and historic landscape at Slievemore, incorporating a research excavation at a number of sites within the village.
		Excavation of selected dwellings and their associated gardens has been an integral part of the fieldwork since 1991, and represents a pioneering effort at addressing the material lives of a much-neglected segment of Irish society.
	achill-fieldschool.com /mambo/index.php?...&task=view&id=26&Itemid=55 (229 words)

	Kalaupapa, Moloka'i (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-22)
		More recently, a pamphlet for the public on the archaeology of the region is underway thanks to a generous grant from the Arizona Memorial Museum Association (www.arizonamemorial.org).
		Due to the excellent state of preservation of the archaeological record, the vast majority of features found on survey are agricultural plots – most defined by rows of low walls designed to protect plants from the dominant northeastern winds that sweep across the landscape.
		However, to understand the historical context in which agricultural practices expanded and intensified it is first necessary to recognize variation in the natural environment that created opportunities and constraints for development.
	sscl.berkeley.edu /~oal/research/kalaupapa/kalaupapa.htm (901 words)

	CLASP: Community Landscape & Archaeology Survey Project
		CLASP is an association which brings local archaeology enthusiasts together to investigate their local past.
		CLASP evolved from the archaeology sub-committee of 'Friends of the Upper Nene': in this context it inherited the project 'Local People, Local Past' fieldwork for which ended in August 2004.
		Friends of the Upper Nene was also instrumental in contributing funds to the 'Whitehall Farm Roman Villa and Landscape Project' on which most of the volunteers have also worked since 2000: the finds-processing, surveying, mapping and data processing aspects of this excavation fall within the remit of 'Local People, Local Past'.
	www.olioweb.me.uk /clasp/CLASP/htmlpages/more_clasp.html (869 words)

	Thetford Forest Archaeology Norfolk and Suffolk (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-22)
		I have applied the landscape archaeology technique of fieldwalking to exposed soils in the forest.
		This might suggest a widespread cultivation of the Brecks during the Roman period, or a difference in settlement pattern compared to that of the Medieval period.
		This website also exists as an example of how amateur enthusiasts can responsibly participate in field archaeology, and contribute to the archaeological record.
	spamandchips.net /archaeology/index.htm (479 words)

	Landscape archaeology books, find the lowest prices
		Bridging The Tiber : Approaches To Regional Archaeology In The Middle Tiber Valley
		Humber Wetlands : The Archaeology Of A Dynamic Landscapes
		The Political Landscape : Constellations of Authority in Early Complex Polities
	www.allbookstores.com /Landscape_Archaeology.html (200 words)

	Landscape Archaeology script (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-22)
		One of the great benefits and also the great problems of doing landscape archaeology in regions like this...is that you find tens of thousand of artefacts distributed over tens of thousands of square metres, and this a great data source.
		So Simon Holdaway has been pioneering a new kind of archaeology, one that needs armies of students, very little digging and a whole lot of technology.
		it's the way archaeology is done today, each with something to learn from the other.
	www.abc.net.au /quantum/scripts98/9817/landscpt.htm (1165 words)

	Norfolk Museums & Archaeology Service: Home
		Field archaeology and biological recording in the NMAS
		A major exhibition of painting, sculpture, jewellery, drawing and photography at Norwich Castle Museum and Art Gallery.
		This richly illuminating exhibition examines how arts have taken their inspiration, materials and pigments from the landscape and transformed them into astonishing works of art.
	www.museums.norfolk.gov.uk (499 words)

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