MATERIAL AND SYMBOLIC LANDSCAPES
Convenor: Julian Thomas
In the past decade, ‘landscape’ has often been presented as a master concept which can unite the disparate elements of contemporary archaeology. Accordingly, we have discussions of ecological landscapes, landscapes of production, symbolic landscapes and ritual landscapes. However, it is often the case that these different approaches have few points in common. In this session, the intention is to draw together different aspects of the debate on landscape. In particular, the papers will attempt to connect the materiality and the meanings of places, and the experiential and economic significance of land.
papers:
Author 1 Author 2 Title
Brück Boundaries, personhood and human-environment relations
Cooney Negotiated landscapes: a view of prehistoric landscapes from the edge of Europe.
Fletcher Mobility in African settlement patterns- global implications
Fowler Prehistoric Materialities of the Isle of Man
Haber Domesticated landscape, narrated landscape
Håkan Material culture, place, landscape and their “effect-in-history”: A biography of a place and its material culture
Hamilton Bronze Age stone worlds: distinguishing between culture and nature in the granitic uplands of SW England.
Haughey The Thames as Landscape
Kitchen Lanscape and field systems
Knapp The social landscape of mining: archaeological tales from prehistoric Cyprus
MacFarlane Remembering lived places differently: Contexts of interaction in the western Simpson desert, central Australia
Mizogushi Changing self-identity and changing cemetryscape: a case study from the Yayoi period of Japan, 6th C BC – 3rd C AD
Thomas Neolithic monuments and the archaeology of place in south-west Scotland
Whitehouse The living and the dead: layered landscapes in late prehistoric Menorca