Most archaeological projects today integrate, at least to some degree, how past people
engaged with their surroundings, including both how they strategized resource use …

Archaeologists have long held that changing patterns of settlement within a region reflect the
changing social organization of Its human population, but they have had little success …

This chapter is not intended as an extensive review of Mesolithic and Neolithic landscape
studies. Instead, through reference to the recent work of a number of prehistorians and …

Abstract Using advances in Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and 3D technologies,
scholars of the ancient world are digitally reconstructing entire historic landscapes. For multi …

Attention to human–environment relationships in the central Andes has a long history.
Although the area is not a neat microcosm of the globe, wholly representative of worldwide …

This article explores the coevolution of landscape approaches and geospatial tools in
Middle Eastern archaeology. From the first aerial reconnaissance programs, archaeologists …

Just as landscape maps memory and declares identity, so too it offers a key to interpreting
society… the land itself, as socially constituted, plays a fundamental role in the ordering of …

Paleolithic landscape that, in many respects, has remarkable potential for archaeological
research. It is a virtually undisturbed landscape with millions of lithic artifacts left as they …

Across most of the Middle East, as well as parts of central Asia and southeastern Europe,
human-made mounds dot the landscape. These have resulted from countless generations of …

Landscape archaeology is a framework for modeling the ways that people in the past
conceptualized, organized, and manipulated their environments and the ways that those …