Handbook of landscape archaeology

720 Pages·2008·20.001 MB·English

by  Bruno David, Julian Thomas (editors)

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Handbook of Landscape
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WORLD ARCHAEOLOGICAL CONGRESS
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First published 2008 by Left Coast Press, Inc.
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C
ONTENTS
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g Series Editors’ Foreword 17
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A Preface 19
4 Acknowledgments 23
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0 1. Landscape Archaeology: Introduction 27
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8. Pre-Homo sapiens Place-Worlds 102
Andrew Chamberlain
9. Evolutionary Psychology and Archaeological Landscapes 109
Herbert D. G. Maschner and Ben C. Marler
Part III. Thinking through Landscapes 121
10. The Social Construction of Water 123
Veronica Strang
11. Reading between the Lands: Toward an Amphibious Archaeological 131
Settlement Model for Maritime Migrations
Joe Crouch
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12. Island Biogeography: Implications and Applications for Archaeology 141
John Edward Terrell
13. Sentient Sea: Seascapes as Spiritscapes 149
Ian J. McNiven
14. Living Landscapes of the Dead: Archaeology of the Afterworld among 158
the Rumu of Papua New Guinea
Bruno David, Max Pivoru, William Pivoru, Michael Green,
Bryce Barker, James F. Weiner, Douglas Simala, Thomas Kokents,
Lisa Araho, and John Dop
15. Visions of the Cosmos: Ceremonial Landscapes and Civic Plans 167
Wendy Ashmore
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1 16. Quarried Away: Thinking about Landscapes of Megalithic Construction on 176
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21. From Physical to Social Landscapes: Multidimensional Approaches to 228
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25. The Body and the Senses: Implications for Landscape Archaeology 263
Paul Rainbird
26. Phenomenological Approaches to Landscape Archaeology 271
Christopher Tilley
27. Memory, Place, and the Memorialization of Landscape 277
Ruth M. Van Dyke
28. Virtual Reality, Visual Envelopes, and Characterizing Landscape 285
Vicki Cummings
29. Landscape and Personhood 291
Chris Fowler
30. Archaeology, Landscape, and Dwelling 300
Julian Thomas
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31. Building and Architecture as Landscape Practice 307
Lesley McFadyen
32. Farming, Herding, and the Transformation of Human Landscapes in 315
Southwestern Asia
Ofer Bar-Yosef
33. Domesticated Landscapes 328
John Edward Terrell and John P. Hart
34. Punctuated Landscapes: Creating Cultural Places in Volcanically 333
Active Environments
Robin Torrence
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through Geoarchaeology
Tim Denham
47. The Archaeology of Wetland Landscapes: Method and Theory at the 482
Beginning of the 21st Century
Robert Van de Noort
48. Lithics and Landscape Archaeology 490
Chris Clarkson
49. The Use of Human Skeletal Remains in Landscape 502
Archaeology
F. Donald Pate
50. Using DNA in Landscape Archaeology 521
Elizabeth Matisoo-Smith
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51. Sourcing Techniques in Landscape Archaeology 530
Glenn R. Summerhayes
52. Tracking Ancient Routes ac ross Polynesian Seascapes 536
with Basalt Artifact Geochemistry
Marshall Weisler
53. The Uses of Archaeological Faunal Remains in Landscape Archaeology 544
Ingrid L. Mainland
54. Survey Strategies in Landscape Archaeology 551
Thomas Richards
55. Noninvasive Subsurface Mapping Techniques, Satellite and 562
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Who Controls Archaeological Places?
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About the Authors 661
Credits 673
Index 675
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17.5 Refi tted fi red clay anthropomorphic fi gurine (refi t 6), 195
Dolnoslav Late Copper Age tell, South Bulgaria: the
upper torso was deposited in Building 24, the head
in Midden 1, 28 m apart.
17.6 Refi tted Late Copper Age vessel, Durankulak complex, northeast 196
Bulgaria: the upper part was deposited in Grave 584, the lower
part in a house in Level VII on the “Big Island” tell.
17.7 (Top) Proportion of graves with incomplete vessels, Early Copper 197
Age cemetery, Tiszapolgár-Basatanya, northeast Hungary;
(bottom) Proportion of graves with incomplete vessels, Middle Copper
Age cemetery, Tiszapolgár-Basatanya, northeast Hungary.