Landscape Archaeology needs collaboration with Historical geography and Heritage Studies, declare international experts in a new book on “Landscape Biographies” (2015)
This summer, the long awaited volume on “Landscape Biographies – Geographical, historical and archaeological perspectives on the production and transmission of landscapes” (edited by Jan Kolen, Hans Renes & Rita Hermans) appeared at Amsterdam University Press.
The new volume discusses the role of landscape archaeology, historical geography and heritage studies in the joint exercise of reconstructing, interpreting and narrating the long-term histories of landscapes.
In Landscape Biographies, twenty geographers, archaeologists, historians, and anthropologists investigate the diverse ways in which landscapes and monuments have been constructed, transmitted, and transformed from prehistory up to the present, from Manhattan to Shanghai, from Iceland to Portugal, and from England to Estonia. Among the authors are distinguished scholars like Gísli Pálsson, Hayden Lorimer, Cornelius Holtorf, Joshua Pollard, and Mark Gillings.
