Handbook of Landscape Archaeology - Paperback

by Bruno David (Editor), Julian Thomas (Editor)

Over the past three decades, "landscape" has become an umbrella term to describe many different strands of archaeology. From the processualist study of settlement patterns to the phenomenologist's experience of the natural world, from human impact on past environments to the environment's impact on human thought, action, and interaction, the term has been used. In this volume, for the first time, over 80 archaeologists from three continents attempt a comprehensive definition of the ideas and practices of landscape archaeology, covering the theoretical and the practical, the research and conservation, and encasing the term in a global framework. As a basic reference volume for landscape archaeology, this volume will be the benchmark for decades to come. All royalties on this Handbook are donated to the World Archaeological Congress.

Author Biography

Bruno David is the QEII Fellow and Co-Director of the Programme for Australian Indigenous Archaeology at Monash University in Melbourne. He specializes in Australian Aboriginal archaeology, archaeology of rock art, archaeology of cultural landscape, patterns of change and continuity in the Aboriginal past, temporal and regional scale in archaeological research, the use of ethnography and analogy in archaeology, archaeology of the Pacific region and Torres Strait archaeology. He has done field work in Austali, Vanuatu, Papua New Guinea and the United States. His books include Landscapes, Rock-art and the Dreaming: an archaeology of preunderstanding, The Social Archaeology of Australian Indigenous Societies (co-editor), Inscribed Landscapes: marking and making place (co-editor). Julian Thomas has been the Chair of Archaeology at Manchester University since 2000. His main research interests are concerned with the Neolithic period in Britain and north-west Europe, and with the theory and philosophy of archaeology. His books include Time, Culture and Identity: An Interpretive Archaeology, Understanding the Neolithic, Interpretive Archaeology: A Reader, Archaeology and Modernity and co-editorship of Neolithic Enclosures of North-West Europe and The Destruction and Conservation of Cultural Property.