6.4. ‘Landscape’, ‘environment’ and a vision of interdisciplinarity

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Contents 5
3. Preface 9
4. INTRODUCTION 11
5. THEME 1. HOW DID LANDSCAPE CHANGE?
6. 1.1. Cultural Landscapes of Seusamora in Eastern Georgia 33
7. 1.2. Irrigation and landscape: An interdisciplinary approach 45
8. 1.3. Principles of preservation and recalling of memory traces in an industrial landscape: A case study of decayed monument recreation in the brown-coal mining area of Bílina, Czech Republic 59
9. 1.4. Cultural forces in the creation of landscapes of south-eastern Rhodope: Evolution of the Byzantine monastic landscape 71
10. 1.5. The change analysis of the green spaces of the Historical Peninsula in Istanbul, Turkey 81
11. 1.6. The evolution of an agrarian landscape. Methodological proposals for the archaeological study of the alluvial plain of Medellin (Guadiana basin, Spain) 97
12. 1.7. Talking ruins: The legacy of baroque garden design in Manor Parks of Estonia 115
13. 1.8. Configuring the landscape: Roman mining in the conventus Asturum (NW Hispania) 127
14. 1.9. English town commons and changing landscapes 137
15. 1.10. From feature fetish to a landscape perspective: A change of perception in the research of pingo scars in the late Pleistocene landscape in the Northern Netherlands 151
16. THEME II. IMPROVING TEMPORAL, CHRONOLOGICAL AND TRANSFORMATIONAL FRAMEWORKS
17. 2.1. Pre-industrial Charcoal Production in southern Brandenburg and its impact on the environment 167
18. 2.2. Landscape transformations in North Coastal Etruria 179
19. 2.3. Can the period of Dolmens construction be seen in the pollen record? Pollen analytical investigations of Holocene settlement and vegetation history in the Westensee area, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany 197
20. 2.4. Geo- and Landscape archaeological investigations in south-western Lazio (Italy): An approach for the identification of man-made landscape transformation processes in the hinterland of Rome 211
21. 2.5. The medieval territory of Brussels: A dynamic landscape of urbanisation 223
22. THEME III. LINKING LANDSCAPES OF LOWLANDS TO MOUNTAINOUS AREAS
23. 3.1. A qualitative model for the effect of upstream land use on downstream water availability in a western Andean valley, southern Peru 241
24. 3.2. Connecting lowlands and uplands: An ethno-archaeological approach to transhumant pastoralism in Sardinia (Italy) 249
25. 3.3. The prehistoric peopling process in the Holocene landscape of the Grosseto area: How to manage uncertainty and the quest for ancient shorelines 265
26. THEME IV. APPLYING CONCEPTS OF SCALE
27. 4.1. Landscape scale and human mobility: Geoarchaeological evidence from Rutherfords Creek, New South Wales, Australia 279
28. 4.2. Surface contra subsurface assemblages: Two archaeological case studies from Thesprotia, Greece 295
29. THEME V. NEW DIRECTIONS IN DIGITAL PROSPECTION AND MODELLING TECHNIQUES
30. 5.1. Biting off more than we can chew? The current and future role of digital techniques in landscape archaeology 309
31. 5.2. Using Google Earth and GIS to survey in the Peruvian Andes 321
32. 5.3. The occupation of the Antequera Depression (Malaga, Spain) through the 1st millennium BC: A geographical and archaeological perspective into Romanisation 339
33. 5.4. Mapping the probability of settlement location for the Malia-Lasithi region (Crete, Greece) during the Minoan Protopalatial period 353
34. 5.5. Using LIDAR-derived Local Relief Models (LRM) as a new tool for archaeological prospection 369
35. 5.6. The ue of digital devices in the research of Hungarian monastic gardens of the 18th century 379
36. 5.7. Thinking topographically about the landscape around Besançon (Doubs, France) 395
37. 5.8. Modelling the agricultural potential of Early Iron Age settlement hinterland areas in southern Germany 413
38. 5.9. Radiography of a townscape. Understanding, visualising and managing a Roman townsite 429
39. 5.10. New methods to analyse LIDAR-based elevation models for historical landscape studies with five time slices 443
40. THEME VI. HOW WILL LANDSCAPE ARCHAEOLOGY DEVELOP IN THE FUTURE
41. 6.1. The future of landscape archaeology 461
42. 6.2. Look the other way – from a branch of archaeology to a root of landscape studies 471
43. 6.3. The past informs the future; landscape archaeology and historic landscape characterisation in the UK 485
44. 6.4. ‘Landscape’, ‘environment’ and a vision of interdisciplinarity 503
45. 6.5. Landscape studies: The future of the field 515