Title

Recent Landscape Archaeology In South America

Keywords

Built environment; Landscape; Settlement patterns; South America

Abstract

South American archaeologists use the term landscape to analyze a broad range of relationships. Examples include intensive agriculture and political power, myth and place, and climate change and cultural development. Landscape archaeology is necessarily spatial analysis, but scholars work at different scales and use different methods. This essay highlights the influence of geography, anthropology, and new methodologies on four definitions of landscape: ecological habitat, built environment, a stage for performance, and integrating subsistence and settlement. In a number of cases, landscape archaeologists, stakeholders, and researchers from different traditions work at different scales to meaningfully share information, clarify their differences, and compare their analyses and conclusions. © 2012 Springer Science+Business Media, LLC.

Publication Date

12-1-2012

Publication Title

Journal of Archaeological Research

Volume

20

Issue

4

Number of Pages

309-355

Document Type

Article

Personal Identifier

scopus

DOI Link

https://doi.org/10.1007/s10814-012-9057-6

Socpus ID

84867646283 (Scopus)

Source API URL

https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/84867646283

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