Eduardo Herrera Malatesta is a Venezuelan archaeologist specialising in Landscape research, regional surveys, and Geographical Information Systems. He studied anthropology with a specialisation in archaeology at the Universidad Central de Venezuela (BA) and Instituto Venezolano de Investigaciones Cientificas (MA). He then specialised in GIS in archaeology at the University College London (MSc), and later, he got his PhD in Archaeology at Leiden University. He has held postdoctoral positions at Leiden University and later at Aarhus University as a Marie Curie postdoctoral fellow. He has recently started a position as a postdoctoral researcher at Leiden University.

''This volume provides exciting new insights into the archaeological study of contested landscapes, bringing together contributions from around the world. Its landscape archaeology approach puts the focus on conflicts and contestations, explicitly looking at landscapes as arenas for analysing political struggles. Thus, it represents a significant contribution to the growing body of literature that engages with the more political dimensions of the past – and present''. - Manuel Fernández-Götz, School of Archaeology, University of Oxford

• Chapter 1. Introduction: Contested and Political Landscapes - Eduardo Herrera Malatesta, Chapter 2. On Contested Taskscapes - Eduardo Herrera Malatesta, Chapter 3. Archaeology in the Tripartito: Landscape and the nation-state in the south-central Andes - Noa Corcoran-Tadd, Chapter 4. The Dramatized Landscape of Juktas: A topoanalytic approach to a Minoan peak sanctuary in Crete - Maria Chountasi, Chapter 5. Lived space of displaced people: A comparative approach to contested spaces in Iron Age Northern Mesopotamia and modern Berlin - Vera Egbers, Chapter 6. The Landscape of Moving Tree Trunks and Other Unnatural Phenomenon: Contesting Archaeologies from the Global South - O. Hugo Benavides, Chapter 7. Landscapes of power and resilience: Aristocratic-driven landscapes in the Duero basin - Jesús García Sánchez, Chapter 8. Changing Landscapes, Changing People in Northwestern New Mexico - Kellam Throgmorton, Chapter 9. Cruzando la Cerca: Indigenous Mounded Landscapes in Nicaragua - Alexander Geurds, Chapter 10. Pretoria, drawing board of the Apartheid regime - David Koren, Chapter 11. Discussion: Reconsidering all that you see: reassessing landscapes in archaeology - Juan P. Bellón and Carmen Rueda