Ebook: Landscapes Under Pressure: Theory and Practice of Cultural Heritage Research and Preservation

There is a growing realization that human intent and activity are not easily separated from natural forces in the shaping of landscapes. The pervasive Western dichotomy of culture and nature has proved to be a poor basis for scientific research and long-term environmental management. Humans have been major factors in environmental change for thousands of years using fire, intensive hunting and a wide range of agricultural strategies to transform most ecosystems on the earth long before the Industrial Revolution. All these activites contribute to the making of cultural landscapes which incorporate elements generally classified in two groups: tangible empirical evidence of human behavior, and intangible, symbolic meanings.

This book investigates the newly emerging scope of interests and project agendas to investigate and preserve cultural landscapes. It presents the historic, archaeological, ethnographic, and environmental traditions of cultural landscape study and the attempts to reconstruct and analyze the complex processes of cultural changes through prehistoric and historic times.

The "guiding light" of the book is that the fullest understanding of a cultural landscape will materialize through interdisciplinary cooperation, which should involve an ecological approach with historical ecology as the guiding tool, applied archaeology, and environmental planning. The book addresses issues of interest to policymakers-makers and planners and those who investigate cultural landscapes.

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There is a growing realization that human intent and activity are not easily separated from natural forces in the shaping of landscapes. The pervasive Western dichotomy of culture and nature has proved to be a poor basis for scientific research and long-term environmental management. Humans have been major factors in environmental change for thousands of years using fire, intensive hunting and a wide range of agricultural strategies to transform most ecosystems on the earth long before the Industrial Revolution. All these activites contribute to the making of cultural landscapes which incorporate elements generally classified in two groups: tangible empirical evidence of human behavior, and intangible, symbolic meanings.

This book investigates the newly emerging scope of interests and project agendas to investigate and preserve cultural landscapes. It presents the historic, archaeological, ethnographic, and environmental traditions of cultural landscape study and the attempts to reconstruct and analyze the complex processes of cultural changes through prehistoric and historic times.

The "guiding light" of the book is that the fullest understanding of a cultural landscape will materialize through interdisciplinary cooperation, which should involve an ecological approach with historical ecology as the guiding tool, applied archaeology, and environmental planning. The book addresses issues of interest to policymakers-makers and planners and those who investigate cultural landscapes.

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There is a growing realization that human intent and activity are not easily separated from natural forces in the shaping of landscapes. The pervasive Western dichotomy of culture and nature has proved to be a poor basis for scientific research and long-term environmental management. Humans have been major factors in environmental change for thousands of years using fire, intensive hunting and a wide range of agricultural strategies to transform most ecosystems on the earth long before the Industrial Revolution. All these activites contribute to the making of cultural landscapes which incorporate elements generally classified in two groups: tangible empirical evidence of human behavior, and intangible, symbolic meanings.

This book investigates the newly emerging scope of interests and project agendas to investigate and preserve cultural landscapes. It presents the historic, archaeological, ethnographic, and environmental traditions of cultural landscape study and the attempts to reconstruct and analyze the complex processes of cultural changes through prehistoric and historic times.

The "guiding light" of the book is that the fullest understanding of a cultural landscape will materialize through interdisciplinary cooperation, which should involve an ecological approach with historical ecology as the guiding tool, applied archaeology, and environmental planning. The book addresses issues of interest to policymakers-makers and planners and those who investigate cultural landscapes.

Content:
Front Matter....Pages I-XX
Front Matter....Pages 1-4
Place, Problem, and People: Issues in Interdisciplinary Cooperation....Pages 5-14
Place, Historical Ecology and Cultural Landscape: New Directions for Applied Archaeology....Pages 15-25
The Colonial Southwest: Pueblo Landscapes and Spanish Shared and Separate Landscapes....Pages 27-53
A New Landscape for Cultural Heritage Management: Characterisation as a Management Tool....Pages 55-74
The Idea of the Site: History, Heritage, and Locality in Community Archaeology....Pages 75-91
Front Matter....Pages 93-96
Changing Places: A Cultural Geography of Nineteenth-Century Zuni, New Mexico....Pages 97-113
Envisioning Future Landscapes in the Environmentally Sensitive Areas of Scotland: An Introduction....Pages 115-134
Critical Data for Understanding Early Central European Farmers....Pages 135-147
Alternative Archaeologies of the Cold War: The Preliminary Results of Fieldwork at the Greenham and Nevada Peace Camps....Pages 149-162
Archaeological Practice in Large Transportation-Related Corridors: The I-270 Archaeological Mitigation Project....Pages 163-185
Front Matter....Pages 187-190
Private Sector Archaeology: Part of the Problem or Part of the Solution?....Pages 191-211
Protection, Maintenance and Enhancement of Cultural Landscapes in Changing Social, Political and Economical Reality in Poland....Pages 213-242
Cultural Heritage Preservation and the Legal System With Specific Reference to Landscapes....Pages 243-254
Back Matter....Pages 255-265

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There is a growing realization that human intent and activity are not easily separated from natural forces in the shaping of landscapes. The pervasive Western dichotomy of culture and nature has proved to be a poor basis for scientific research and long-term environmental management. Humans have been major factors in environmental change for thousands of years using fire, intensive hunting and a wide range of agricultural strategies to transform most ecosystems on the earth long before the Industrial Revolution. All these activites contribute to the making of cultural landscapes which incorporate elements generally classified in two groups: tangible empirical evidence of human behavior, and intangible, symbolic meanings.

This book investigates the newly emerging scope of interests and project agendas to investigate and preserve cultural landscapes. It presents the historic, archaeological, ethnographic, and environmental traditions of cultural landscape study and the attempts to reconstruct and analyze the complex processes of cultural changes through prehistoric and historic times.

The "guiding light" of the book is that the fullest understanding of a cultural landscape will materialize through interdisciplinary cooperation, which should involve an ecological approach with historical ecology as the guiding tool, applied archaeology, and environmental planning. The book addresses issues of interest to policymakers-makers and planners and those who investigate cultural landscapes.

Content:
Front Matter....Pages I-XX
Front Matter....Pages 1-4
Place, Problem, and People: Issues in Interdisciplinary Cooperation....Pages 5-14
Place, Historical Ecology and Cultural Landscape: New Directions for Applied Archaeology....Pages 15-25
The Colonial Southwest: Pueblo Landscapes and Spanish Shared and Separate Landscapes....Pages 27-53
A New Landscape for Cultural Heritage Management: Characterisation as a Management Tool....Pages 55-74
The Idea of the Site: History, Heritage, and Locality in Community Archaeology....Pages 75-91
Front Matter....Pages 93-96
Changing Places: A Cultural Geography of Nineteenth-Century Zuni, New Mexico....Pages 97-113
Envisioning Future Landscapes in the Environmentally Sensitive Areas of Scotland: An Introduction....Pages 115-134
Critical Data for Understanding Early Central European Farmers....Pages 135-147
Alternative Archaeologies of the Cold War: The Preliminary Results of Fieldwork at the Greenham and Nevada Peace Camps....Pages 149-162
Archaeological Practice in Large Transportation-Related Corridors: The I-270 Archaeological Mitigation Project....Pages 163-185
Front Matter....Pages 187-190
Private Sector Archaeology: Part of the Problem or Part of the Solution?....Pages 191-211
Protection, Maintenance and Enhancement of Cultural Landscapes in Changing Social, Political and Economical Reality in Poland....Pages 213-242
Cultural Heritage Preservation and the Legal System With Specific Reference to Landscapes....Pages 243-254
Back Matter....Pages 255-265
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