Handbook of Landscape Archaeology

Bruno David and Julian Thomas (editors)
Oxford, UK : Berg Publishers, 2008

ISBN: 9781598742947

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Book description
Over the past three decades, "landscape" has become an umbrella term to describe the many different strands of archaeology that involve the relationship between humans and place. Landscape archaeology is used to denote everything from the processualist study of settlement patterns to the phenomenologist's experience of the natural world. It covers both the human impact on past environments and the environment's impact on human thought, action, and interaction. In this volume, for the first time, over 80 archaeologists from four 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, this book will be the benchmark for the study of landscape archaeology for decades to come.

About the author
Bruno David is QEII Research Fellow in the Centre for Australian Indigenous Archaeology, School of Geography and Environmental Science, Monash University.
Julian Thomas is chair of archaeology at University of Manchester.

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