Chapter Seventeen Developing a Systematic Approach to the Archaeological Study of Mountain Landscapes

Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents v
3. Illustrations ix
4. Mountain Landscapes 1
5. Steps Lost 19
6. Toward an Anthropology of Sacred Mountains 37
7. An Integrated Approach to the Archaeology of a Sacred Mountain 51
8. The Mountainscape of the Peak Sanctuary at Leska on Kythera 77
9. Exploring Seasonal Transhumance of Hunter-Gatherers and Neolithic Pastoralists in Poland’s High Tatras and Foothill Lowlands 93
10. The Onset of Alpine Pastoral Systems in the Eastern Alps 117
11. Central Alpine Environments as Mountain Cultural Landscapes from Prehistory to Contemporary Past 139
12. Mountain Archaeology of the Bronze Age Caucasus 153
13. Landscape Archaeology in Eastern Pyrenees High Mountain Areas (Segre and Ter Valleys, Northeast Iberian Peninsula) 179
14. Southern Norway’s Mountain Landscapes 197
15. Comparison between Medieval and Modern Landscape 219
16. Neolithic Penetration of the European Mid-Mountains 233
17. Addressing the Complexity of the Paleoenvironmental Impact of Prehistoric Settlement and Protohistoric Urbanism in the Auvergne Mountains (Massif Central, France) 253
18. Holocene Anthropization of Mid-elevation Landscapes around Pic d’Orhy, Western Pyrenees 277
19. Highlands and Lowlands—Different Landscapes, Different Archaeologies? 303
20. Developing a Systematic Approach to the Archaeological Study of Mountain Landscapes 325
21. Agropastoralism in a Dispersed Village, Mountain Economy 343
22. The Inka Landscape of Cusco and the Watanay Valley 361
23. On the Supposed Marginality of Mountain Areas 385
24. Contributors 399
25. Index 401