Archaeologies of Landscape: Contemporary Perspectives / Edition 1

by Wendy Ashmore, A. Bernard Knapp

Overview

This book offers new and diverse perspectives on the ideational qualities of past landscapes.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780631211068
Publisher:	Wiley
Publication date:	10/29/1999
Series:	Social Archaeology
Pages:	308
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.10(h) x 0.68(d)

About the Author

Wendy Ashmore is a professor of Maya archaeology at the University of California, Riverside. She has been involved in excavations in Belize, Guatemala, and Honduras. Her research focuses on the implications that spaces, settlement patterns, and gender can have on social organization. A. Bernard Knapp is the editor of Archaeologies of Landscape: Contemporary Perspectives, published by Wiley.

Table of Contents

1. Archaeological Landscapes: Constructed, Conceptualized, Ideational: A. Bernard Knapp and Wendy Ashmore.

Part I: Ethnographic and Historical Cases:.

2. Identifying Ancient Sacred Landscapes in Australia: From Physical to Social: Paul S. C. Taçon.

3. Creating Social Identity in the Landscape: Tidewater, Virginia 1600-1750: Lisa Kealhofer.

4. Conceptual Landscapes in the Egyptian Nile Valley: Janet E. Richards.

5. Buddhist Landscapes in East Asia: Gina L. Barnes.

6. Mountains, Caves, Water: Ideational Landscapes of the Ancient Maya: James E. Brady and Wendy Ashmore.

Part II: Protohistoric / Ethnohistoric Cases:.

7. The Inca Cognition of Landscape: Archaeology, Ethnohistory, and the Aesthetic of Alterity: Maarten van de Guchte.

8. The Ideology of Settlement: Ancestral Keres Landscapes in the Northern Rio Grande: James E. Snead and Robert W. Preucel.

Part III: Prehistoric Cases:.

9. Centering the Ancestors: Cemeteries, Mounds and Sacred Landscapes of the Ancient North American Midcontinent: Jane E. Buikstra and Douglas K. Charles.

10. Ideational and Industrial Landscape of Prehistoric Cyprus: A. Bernard Knapp.

11. The Mythical Landscapes of the British Iron Age: John C. Barrett.

Part IV: Commentaries:.

12. Sacred Landscapes: Constructed and Conceptualized: Carole L. Crumley.

13. Exploring Everyday Places and Cosmologies: Peter van Dommelen.

Index.

Editorial Reviews

"Good insights for landscape historians and archaeologists." Landscape History

"The varied contributions and stimulating interpretations combine with a strong and thought-provoking introduction by the editors and useful concluding commentaries on sacred landscapes and everyday places and cosmologies to produce a well-structured book of unusually powerful appeal." Landscapes

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