Phil Stastney, R. Scaife, John Giorgi, J. Whittaker
{"title":"Modelling Vegetation Cover and Wetland Expansion in the Lower Thames Valley, UK: Multi-Proxy Records from Littlebrook Power Station, Kent","authors":"Phil Stastney, R. Scaife, John Giorgi, J. Whittaker","doi":"10.1080/14662035.2021.2042050","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14662035.2021.2042050","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The interaction of ‘natural’ environmental processes and human activity in shaping landscapes is vividly illustrated in the Lower Thames Valley, UK. Through development-led (geo)archaeological investigations, intensifying redevelopment of this (currently) industrial landscape presents opportunities to gain long-term perspectives on these processes and to investigate the timing and extent of human impact on the environment in the past. This paper describes a novel multi-method approach undertaken at the former Littlebrook Power Station, Kent, comprising landscape-scale deposit modelling, multi-proxy palaeo-environmental analysis and vegetation cover reconstruction using REVEALS to produce schematic landscape reconstruction maps. Micropaleontological data reveal variable estuarine/freshwater influence, which alongside longer-term trends towards rising relative sea level drove lateral expansion of wetlands through the Holocene. Pollen-derived vegetation models show Early Holocene dense forest cover reduced to ∼55 per cent by 7–8 kyr BP followed by a step-change to grassland dominance in the early Bronze Age. Since grassland expansion was not proportionate to modelled expansion of wetlands but was associated with increased pastoral indicators, an anthropogenic cause of the deforestation in the Bronze Age is probable. This paper highlights the value of combining geoarchaeological data with novel modelling approaches to visualise ancient landscapes and thereby offer long-term perspectives on landscape-scale human-environment interactions.","PeriodicalId":38043,"journal":{"name":"Landscapes (United Kingdom)","volume":"22 1","pages":"99 - 122"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44055563","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Editorial","authors":"G. Fairclough, Sam Turner","doi":"10.1080/14662035.2021.2027087","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14662035.2021.2027087","url":null,"abstract":"We have been trying for several years now to align the contents of Landscapes towards a more international if not yet global range of articles, usually by including one, very occasionally two, articles that are not about Britain or Ireland. In a couple of recent issues we already reached a majority of articles not solely concerned with these islands off the north-western cast of Europe; one special issue on the landscape of medieval castles by definition looked almost exclusively eastwards. We think however that issue 22.1 is our first to be entirely composed of research articles about landscapes elsewhere in Europe and indeed elsewhere in the world. This is unlikely to be the case for issue 22.2, but nor would we wish it to be because we hope to establish and maintain a good balance between western European and other parts of the world. The current issue is also one of our most broadly-based in disciplinary terms. As always, we aim to continue in that direction, accepting research from any or all disciplines that offer insights into understanding past and evolving landscapes. The growing diversity and variety of landscapes featured in this journal brings us into closer contact with other ways of seeing and thinking, and – we believe – of other ways of wring and ‘speaking’. One of the Landscapes editors, in his former capacity as a trustee of the Landscape Research Group which publishes our sister T&F journal Landscape Research, has recently contributed with a small group of others to the preparation of guidelines on how certain types of language needs to be used carefully. Those guidelines aim to advise authors contributing to Landscape Research on ways that language can be thoughtfully chosen and utilised in academic writing. One reason for saying this is of course clarity and precision of expression, but even more importantly because, first,","PeriodicalId":38043,"journal":{"name":"Landscapes (United Kingdom)","volume":"22 1","pages":"1 - 2"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43360642","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Spiny Burnet as Industrial Fuel in Historical Palestine: Ecology and ethnography","authors":"Avraham (Avi) Sasson","doi":"10.1080/14662035.2021.1962075","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14662035.2021.1962075","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The spiny burnet (sarcopeterium spinosum) bush is very common in the hilly region of Israel. The inhabitants of the country utilised the bush for various purposes, mainly for heating. The special characteristics of the bush – that it reaches its burning point at a high temperature within a short time and has a wide availability - led manufacturers and industrialists who needed heating energy to make extensive use of it throughout history. One of the uses was as fuel for lime kilns in the hilly region, on which this article focusses, considering what spiny burnet was so extensively used, the logistics of its use, and the industry’s impact on the landscape. The manufacture of quicklime, however, harmed the environment by destroying the flora and the undergrowth from time to time, because the need for a large quantity of spiny burnet plants left the soil bare, resulting in serious erosion.","PeriodicalId":38043,"journal":{"name":"Landscapes (United Kingdom)","volume":"22 1","pages":"57 - 79"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43609986","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
P. Everson, P. Stamper, T. Williamson, G. Fairclough
{"title":"Founders: Christopher Taylor","authors":"P. Everson, P. Stamper, T. Williamson, G. Fairclough","doi":"10.1080/14662035.2021.2000162","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14662035.2021.2000162","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT ‘Founders’ is an intermittent series of short, critical appreciations of scholars, researchers and others whose work and ideas, mainly in Britain, have made particularly sweeping, influential and foundational contributions to the development of historically- and archaeologically-informed landscape studies. This latest addition to the series concerns Christopher Taylor, whose death on 28th May 2021 was noted in the Landscapes editorial in issue 21.2.","PeriodicalId":38043,"journal":{"name":"Landscapes (United Kingdom)","volume":"22 1","pages":"80 - 96"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46766907","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
S. Pérez‐Díaz, A. Orejas, F. Sánchez‐Palencia, J. López‐Sáez
{"title":"The Northwestern Iberian Mountains: Resilient Landscapes until the Augustan Conquest, 29–19 B.C.","authors":"S. Pérez‐Díaz, A. Orejas, F. Sánchez‐Palencia, J. López‐Sáez","doi":"10.1080/14662035.2021.1950995","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14662035.2021.1950995","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The Iberian Peninsula is an area of the Western Mediterranean among the most sensitive to climatic and anthropogenic change. It has formed the centre-piece of numerous palaeoenvironmental studies of mountain and valleys, covering different chronologies and historical periods. These studies, however, include no palaeoenvironmental background to the Roman military conquests of the late third to the late first centuries B.C. This paper presents palynological evidence from two Roman military camps, A Recacha and A Granda das Xarras, in the mountains of Northwest Iberia. The main results reflect anthropic activities that shaped the landscape since at least the end of the third millennium B.C., with the presence of montane heaths and deciduous forests. During the first millennium B.C., a modest increase in anthropic activity was detected, possibly due to seasonal grazing. Throughout the Roman conquest, slightly increased signs of anthropogenic activity on the local landscape are detected, leaving a landscape which has changed little throughout the two thousand years that have since passed.","PeriodicalId":38043,"journal":{"name":"Landscapes (United Kingdom)","volume":"22 1","pages":"3 - 25"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/14662035.2021.1950995","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47721839","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Peasant Perspectives on the Medieval Landscape: A Study of Three Communities","authors":"P. Stamper","doi":"10.1080/14662035.2021.2014159","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14662035.2021.2014159","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":38043,"journal":{"name":"Landscapes (United Kingdom)","volume":"22 1","pages":"97 - 98"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46533562","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Glaciers as a Sacred Symbol: An Interaction Ritual Analysis of the Harriman Alaska Expedition of 1899","authors":"T. Curry, Kiernan O. Gordon","doi":"10.1080/14662035.2021.1956099","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14662035.2021.1956099","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The preservationist John Muir and the railroad magnate Edward H. Harriman developed an unlikely friendship that can be traced to Harriman's Alaska Expedition in 1899. Primary and secondary sources were interpreted through Collins’ (2004) interaction ritual (IR) theory to reconstruct the details and evolution of their relationship. Landscapes, particularly glaciers, emerged as the key ritual outcome of their time together in Alaska. Forged as a result of Muir's announcement of the naming of the first Harriman Glacier onboard the expedition's vessel, glaciers also reflected the zeitgeist of late-nineteenth century American nationalism. Viewing the Muir-Harriman relationship through the IR theory lens provides three unique contributions to the literature: the sacralisation of a topographical element, the value of place-naming to an IR chain, and the connection of two men's IR chain to public policy that impacted the United States’ national park system.","PeriodicalId":38043,"journal":{"name":"Landscapes (United Kingdom)","volume":"22 1","pages":"40 - 56"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49096280","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Eighteenth-Century Gardens of Bundelkhand, India, compared to the Mughal, Rajput and Colonial Gardens","authors":"Anjaneya Sharma, N. Upadhyay","doi":"10.1080/14662035.2021.1950327","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14662035.2021.1950327","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Bundelkhand is a region in central India demarcated on the basis of uniform socio-cultural practices. During the later eighteenth and early nineteenth century, a peculiar garden-style developed under the patronisation of the princely states in Bundelkhand. The gardens of Bundelkhand have a characteristic typology and identical gardens can be seen all across Bundelkhand. These walled gardens consist of an outhouse (kothi), a temple, well, stepwell (baoli/bawdi), irrigation channels (milai), and memorial structures. Their distinctiveness illustrates how regional styles flourished despite the influence of the Mughal, Rajput and Colonial styles which otherwise dominated the Indian garden landscape in this period. Following the authors’ previous papers on the typology of Bungali gardens, the present paper compares them with the other established garden types in India: Mughal, Rajput and Colonial. The comparison is helpful to understand the development of regional garden style, sometimes influenced by other typologies, yet which developed into an independent type.","PeriodicalId":38043,"journal":{"name":"Landscapes (United Kingdom)","volume":"22 1","pages":"26 - 39"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/14662035.2021.1950327","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41688697","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Nurdan Erdoğan, F. Carrer, E. E. Tonyaloğlu, Betül Çavdar, G. Varinlioǧlu, T. Şerifoğlu, Mark Jackson, Kübra Kurtşan, E. Nurlu, Sam Turner
{"title":"Simulating Change in Cultural Landscapes: The Integration of Historic Landscape Characterisation and Computer Modelling","authors":"Nurdan Erdoğan, F. Carrer, E. E. Tonyaloğlu, Betül Çavdar, G. Varinlioǧlu, T. Şerifoğlu, Mark Jackson, Kübra Kurtşan, E. Nurlu, Sam Turner","doi":"10.1080/14662035.2021.1964767","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14662035.2021.1964767","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT More than 80 per cent of the world's landscapes are influenced significantly by human activities, and current land-use and land cover trends are likely to increase the rate of landscape change at a significant rate in the near future. To manage and guide landscape change, and an advocacy of positive landscape change – rather than attempts to stop change as in traditional preservationist approaches – requires the identification of threats and opportunities. Tools to do this will need to be based on well-investigated evidence for the long-term past evolution of landscapes and the understanding of possible future scenarios for change. Historic landscape characterisation (HLC) is a GIS-based method employed to interpret and study landscapes with a particular focus on representing and mapping the aspects of landscape character which result from past cultural processes. This paper introduces a new protocol which uses HLC data to model future landscape evolution and to simulate scenarios of landscape change. It describes a computer-based simulation framework derived from landscape ecology and used with HLC datasets during research on a region in southern Turkey. Such integrated modelling protocols have the potential to assist landscape planners to develop holistic and informative approaches to managing landscape change.","PeriodicalId":38043,"journal":{"name":"Landscapes (United Kingdom)","volume":"21 1","pages":"168 - 182"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49108060","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}