- Archaeology, Landscape Archaeology, Material Culture Studies, Historical Archaeology, Archaeological GIS, Early Christianity, and 13 moreEarly Medieval History, Byzantine Archaeology, Early Medieval And Medieval Settlement (Archaeology), Church Archaeology, Remote sensing and GIS applications in Landscape Research, Cultural Landscapes, Aegean Archaeology, Late Antiquity, Byzantine Studies, Roman Archaeology, Archaeological Method & Theory, Viking Age Archaeology, and Viking Age Scandinaviaedit
Historic Landscape Characterization (HLC) is a methodology for historic landscape studies pioneered in Britain. Using satellite imagery and RAF archival air photographs, Naxos provides an excellent pilot study to explore the application... more
Historic Landscape Characterization (HLC) is a methodology for historic landscape studies pioneered in Britain. Using satellite imagery and RAF archival air photographs, Naxos provides an excellent pilot study to explore the application of this technique to the historic landscapes of the eastern Mediterranean. Our research identifies a number of discrete HLC types and considers their development from the Byzantine period to modern times. In addition it has been possible to use these data to set Naxos’ rich corpus of Byzantine churches in their landscape context, providing a more textured account of rural life in medieval and post-medieval times.
Research Interests: Landscape Ecology, Landscape Archaeology, Medieval Studies, Landscape History And Conservation, Historic Landscapes, and 32 moreLandscape History, Medieval Archaeology, Byzantine Studies, Survey Methodology, Late Antiquity, Survey (Archaeological Method & Theory), Survey Research, Byzantine Archaeology, Early Medieval And Medieval Settlement (Archaeology), Landscape archaeology (Anthropology), Remote sensing and GIS applications in Landscape Research, Survey Research (Research Methodology), Aegean Archaeology, Sacred Landscape (Archaeology), GIS and Landscape Archaeology, Archaeological survey, Survey, Landscape Studies, Archaeological field survey, Post-Medieval Archaeology, Cultural Landscape, Late Roman and early Byzantine fortifications, Aegean Archaeology, Mediterranean Archeology, the island of Crete, post-Byzantine Greece, Historical and Cultural Geography, Landscape and Memory, Toponymy, Historical Landscape, Aegean, Cypriot & East Mediterranean Archaeology, Settlement & Landscape research, Landscape and Land-use-history, Byzantine history and archaeology, Medieval and Post Medieval Pottery In the Mediterranean, and Historic Landscape Characterisation
Most historical accounts of Anglo-Saxon Northumbria focus on religious conversion as one of the key driving forces in 7th-century social change. As a counterpoint to this approach, our chapter argues that the examination of key... more
Most historical accounts of Anglo-Saxon Northumbria focus on religious conversion as one of the key driving forces in 7th-century social change. As a counterpoint to this approach, our chapter argues that the examination of key 'technologies' can help explain more specifically what changed, why it changed and how change was effected. The evidence suggests that although various types of social relations endured through the conversion process in northern England, that new technologies enabled factors such as the trajectory of emergent kingship and increasing location of power in fixed places. We focus specifically on technologies witnessed through Northumbrian sources, such as the parcelling of land and the use of writing, building in stone, the use of relics and sainthood, and changing locations and forms of burial. We suggest that the coalescence of these technologies enabled the emergence of key concepts for later periods, such as possession, kingship, saintliness, and the enduring community of the dead. We argue that this transformation was supported by changing perceptions of the material properties of objects, substance, places and persons.
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To understand why historic landscapes changed in the past researchers need to identify when and where changes took place, but in rural landscapes, the origins and development of many historic elements including field systems, roads,... more
To understand why historic landscapes changed in the past researchers need to identify when and where changes took place, but in rural landscapes, the origins and development of many historic elements including field systems, roads, terraces and other earthworks remain poorly understood. This paper outlines a practical interdisciplinary method using GIS-based historic landscape characterisation (HLC) to integrate data from different sources and model how historic character varies in space. It pilots an innovative approach using luminescence profiling and dating that can underpin the HLC with significantly improved knowledge of historic processes of change. We focus on four case studies of terraced agricultural landscapes in western Catalonia and demonstrate for the first time that existing terrace systems often have medieval or early modern origins.
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To understand why historic landscapes changed in the past researchers need to identify when and where changes took place, but in rural landscapes, the origins and development of many historic elements including field systems, roads,... more
To understand why historic landscapes changed in the past researchers need to identify when and where changes took place, but in rural landscapes, the origins and development of many historic elements including field systems, roads, terraces and other earthworks remain poorly understood. This paper outlines a practical interdisciplinary method using GIS-based historic landscape characterisation (HLC) to integrate data from different sources and model how historic character varies in space. It pilots an innovative approach using luminescence profiling and dating that can underpin the HLC with significantly improved knowledge of historic processes of change. We focus on four case studies of terraced agricultural landscapes in western Catalonia and demonstrate for the first time that existing terrace systems often have medieval or early modern origins.
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Dating agricultural terraces is a notoriously difficult problem for archaeologists. The frequent occurrence of residual material in terrace soils and the potential for post-depositional disturbance mean that conventional artefactual and... more
Dating agricultural terraces is a notoriously difficult problem for archaeologists. The frequent occurrence of residual material in terrace soils and the potential for post-depositional disturbance mean that conventional artefactual and lab-based dating methods often provide unreliable dates. In this paper we present a new technique using luminescence field profiling coupled with OSL dating to produce complete (relative) sequences of dates for sedimentary stratigraphies associated with agricultural terraces and earthworks. The method is demonstrated through a series of case-studies in western Catalonia, Spain, in which we reconstruct the formation sequence of earthwork features from the Middle Ages through to the present day. OSL profiling at the time of archaeological survey and excavation permitted spatially and temporally resolved sediment ‘chronologies’ to be generated, and provides the means to interpret the environmental and cultural archives contained in each. The case-studies presented here show that luminescence approaches are a valuable tool to reconstruct landscape histories.
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Historic Landscape Characterization (HLC) is a methodology for historic landscape studies pioneered in Britain. Using satellite imagery and RAF archival air photographs, Naxos provides an excellent pilot study to explore the application... more
Historic Landscape Characterization (HLC) is a methodology for historic landscape studies pioneered in Britain. Using satellite imagery and RAF archival air photographs, Naxos provides an excellent pilot study to explore the application of this technique to the historic landscapes of the eastern Mediterranean. Our research identifies a number of discrete HLC types and considers their development from the Byzantine period to modern times. In addition it has been possible to use these data to set Naxos' rich corpus of Byzantine churches in their landscape context, providing a more textured account of rural life in medieval and post-medieval times.
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Historic Landscape Characterisation (HLC) is a method for mapping, presenting and understanding the landscape with reference to its historical development. By using high-resolution satellite imagery and archive maps we have employed... more
Historic Landscape Characterisation (HLC) is a method for mapping, presenting and understanding the landscape with reference to its historical development. By using high-resolution satellite imagery and archive maps we have employed Geographical Information Systems (GIS) to ...
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Historic Landscape Characterisation (HLC) is a form of landscape archaeology for understanding and representing landscapes with particular reference to their historical development (McNab & Lambrick, 1999, p. 54). It... more
Historic Landscape Characterisation (HLC) is a form of landscape archaeology for understanding and representing landscapes with particular reference to their historical development (McNab & Lambrick, 1999, p. 54). It has been developed largely in England, though cognate ...
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11 Making a Christian Landscape: Early Medieval Cornwall SAM TURNER Introduction The aim of this chapter is to consider the development of the early Christian landscape in Cornwall, the long, tapering peninsula at the far south-western... more
11 Making a Christian Landscape: Early Medieval Cornwall SAM TURNER Introduction The aim of this chapter is to consider the development of the early Christian landscape in Cornwall, the long, tapering peninsula at the far south-western tip of Britain (see Fig. ...
CHAPTER 6 Common Culture: The Archaeology of Landscape Character in Europe Sam Turner and Graham Fairclough INTRODUCTION This chapter describes a relatively new way of doing landscape archaeology that focuses on the historic dimension of... more
CHAPTER 6 Common Culture: The Archaeology of Landscape Character in Europe Sam Turner and Graham Fairclough INTRODUCTION This chapter describes a relatively new way of doing landscape archaeology that focuses on the historic dimension of the present-day ...
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Fields, Property, and Agricultural Innovation in Late Medieval and Early Modern South-West England By SAM TURNER This paper presents a preliminary overview of certain changing aspects of the agricultural landscape in the English counties... more
Fields, Property, and Agricultural Innovation in Late Medieval and Early Modern South-West England By SAM TURNER This paper presents a preliminary overview of certain changing aspects of the agricultural landscape in the English counties of Devon and Cornwall during the ...
Abstract The concealed communities of our title are the people archaeologists have often labeled as marginal. Archaeologists writing about both prehistoric and historic periods have commonly made a range of assumptions about margins... more
Abstract The concealed communities of our title are the people archaeologists have often labeled as marginal. Archaeologists writing about both prehistoric and historic periods have commonly made a range of assumptions about margins and marginality, and their discussions have ...
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‘Petrification’ can be understood as a process of change whose effect (whether intended or not) was to make something more permanent, trans-generational or even eternal. Deliberate reforms and renewals like the change from wood to stone... more
‘Petrification’ can be understood as a process of change whose effect (whether intended or not) was to make something more permanent, trans-generational or even eternal. Deliberate reforms and renewals like the change from wood to stone in early medieval architecture were literally a kind of petrification, but societies might consequently have been ‘petrified’ in a more profound way. The resulting material remains can be interpreted by medieval archaeologists: the papers in this session attempt to investigate and explain some examples of such transformations.