Archaeologies of Landscape Contemporary Perspectives [Paperback]

This book offers new and diverse perspectives on the ideational qualities of past landscapes.1. Archaeological Landscapes: Constructed, Conceptualized, Ideational: A. Bernard Knapp and Wendy Ashmore.

Part I: Ethnographic and Historical Cases:.

2. Identifying Ancient Sacred Landscapes in Australia: From Physical to Social: Paul S. C. Taçon.

3. Creating Social Identity in the Landscape: Tidewater, Virginia 1600-1750: Lisa Kealhofer.

4. Conceptual Landscapes in the Egyptian Nile Valley: Janet E. Richards.

5. Buddhist Landscapes in East Asia: Gina L. Barnes.

6. Mountains, Caves, Water: Ideational Landscapes of the Ancient Maya: James E. Brady and Wendy Ashmore.

Part II: Protohistoric / Ethnohistoric Cases:.

7. The Inca Cognition of Landscape: Archaeology, Ethnohistory, and the Aesthetic of Alterity: Maarten van de Guchte.

8. The Ideology of Settlement: Ancestral Keres Landscapes in the Northern Rio Grande: James E. Snead and Robert W. Preucel.

Part III: Prehistoric Cases:.

9. Centering the Ancestors: Cemeteries, Mounds and Sacred Landscapes of the Ancient North American Midcontinent: Jane E. Buikstra and Douglas K. Charles.

10. Ideational and Industrial Landscape of Prehistoric Cyprus: A. Bernard Knapp.

11. The Mythical Landscapes of the British Iron Age: John C. Barrett.

Part IV: Commentaries:.

12. Sacred Landscapes: Constructed and Conceptualized: Carole L. Crumley.

13. Exploring Everyday Places and Cosmologies: Peter van Dommelen.

Index.

Good insights for landscape historians and archaeologists. Landscape History<!--end-->