Envisioning Landscape

Laura McAtackney, Dan Hicks, Graham Fairclough

"These rich and diverse papers examine landscape in archaeology from a variety of perspectives and in many different parts of the world. They include both valuable reviews of the history of landscape studies and thoughtful suggestions for directions for future research, especially through connections between landscape and time, identity, and politics. Envisioning Landscape will be of great interest to archaeologists, historians and geographers, and others concerned with the changing relationships between humans and the world they live in-past, present, and future." -Peter S. Wells, University of Minnesota "This new volume in the One World Archaeology series is a significant addition to the field of landscape archaeology. Case studies and sites range from the icon (Historic Annapolis, the Tsodilo Hills) to the new and challenging (the Maze Prison, Northern Island). Its signal contribution lies in engaging with and interrogating formulations of landscape, even as it clears a space for exciting new approaches. This should be considered an essential work for library collections and university reading lists." -Nick Shepherd, University of Cape Town Envisioning Landscape offers a range of perspectives that can feed into thinking through the process of doing archaeology and that cause us to rethink those categories - of site, of object, and of landscape - that we habitually apply. -Dr. John Carman, Conservation and Management of Archaeological Sites

• Introduction: Landscapes as Standpoints, The Contemporary Politics of Landscape at the Long Kesh/Maze Prison Site, Northern Ireland, Facing Many Ways: Approaches to the Archaeological Landscapes of the East African Coast, Landscape Archaeology in Lower Manhattan: The Collect Pond as an Evolving Cultural Landmark in Early New York City Landscape, Communities and World Heritage: In Pursuit of the Local in the Tsodilo Hills, Botswana, Common Culture: Time Depth and Landscape Character in European Archaeology, Landscape Archaeology and 'Community Areas' in the Archaeology of Central Europe, Historical Archaeologies of Landscape in Atlantic Africa, Landscape, Time, Topology: An Archaeological Account of the Southern Argolid, Greece, A Landscape of Ruins: Building Historic Annapolis, Colonialism and Landscape: Power, Materiality and Scales of Analysis in Caribbean Historical Archaeology, Index, About the Authors.