Ideas of Landscape

Ideas of Landscape discusses the current theory and practice of landscape archaeology and offers an alternative agenda for landscape archaeology that maps more closely onto the established empirical strengths of landscape study and has more contemporary relevance. The first historical assessment of a critical period in archaeology Takes as its focus the so-called English landscape tradition -- the ideological underpinnings of which come from English Romanticism, via the influence of the “father of landscape history”: W. G. Hoskins Argues that the strengths and weaknesses of landscape archaeology can be traced back to the underlying theoretical discontents of Romanticism Offers an alternative agenda for landscape archaeology that maps more closely onto the established empirical strengths of landscape study and has more contemporary relevance

List of Figures viii Acknowledgements x The Argument xii Preface: Thinking About Swaledale xiii 1. Introduction 1 2. Lonely as a Cloud 18 3. A Good Pair of Boots 34 4. The Loss of Innocence 70 5. Landscape Archaeology Today 119 6. The Politics of Landscape 162 7. Conclusion 193 Glossary 203 References 206 Index 233