Characterization in an Urban Setting: The Experience of the Black Country

Quigley, Paul; Shaw, Michael G.

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“…The traditional archaeological perspective is inward-looking, where the monument is the important thing and where the main focus is on its evidential meaning and value. The other is an outward-looking landscape perspective, which involves accepting significant changes in, for example, the setting, because relationships to other objects and to contemporary processes are considered to be just as relevant as the historical (Burström, 2001;Karlsson, 2001;Nord, 2009;Quigley, 2010;Quigley & Shaw, 2010). A biographical landscape approach is applicable to describe the life history of an object and how it is part of different contexts through time and ascribed different meanings (Holtorf, 1998;Kopytoff, 1986).…”

Section: Theory and Concepts Contextmentioning

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Safeguarding Cultural Heritage in the Urban Fringe: The Role of Legibility

Jerpåsen

Tveit

2014

Landscape Research

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This paper discusses the condition and legibility of prehistoric grave mounds and their landscape context and assesses legibility for experts and lay people by combining archaeological landscape analysis and visual historicity landscape analysis. The paper compares, on the one hand, the heritage object with inherited meanings, and on the other, how it is perceived and understood. The results reveal that legibility in archaeological terms and in visual terms sometimes overlap, but sometimes diverge. Divergences occur when visual legibility of a grave mound is high but where the prehistoric context and legibility are changed. In situations where the context of the mound is preserved and legibility of the mound is high in visual terms, the two overlap. At the fringe, the monuments were mostly both non-visible and had a changed context. Accepting that the prehistoric context has changed, within landscape planning and heritage management, recognising cultural heritage as features in the present-day landscape can be one way forward in urban fringe areas.

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Safeguarding Cultural Heritage in the Urban Fringe: The Role of Legibility

Jerpåsen

Tveit

2014

Landscape Research

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“…This notion is not exclusively reserved for 'natural' and rural environments, but also for urban and periurban areas (Quigley & Shaw 2010). Evidence for change and for the existence of earlier landscapes exists in the present landscape; the process of landscape characterisation enables us to recognise these former patterns ).…”

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Landscape Archaeology between Art and Science : From a Multi- to an Interdisciplinary Approach

Kluiving¹,

Guttmann-Bond²

2012

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The publication of this book is made possible by grants from: All rights reserved. Without limiting the rights under copyright reserved above, no part of this book may be reproduced, stored in or introduced into a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means (electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise) without the written permission of both the copyright owner and the author of the book.Every effort had been made to obtain permission to use all copyrighted illustrations reproduced in this book.Nonetheless, whosoever believes to have rights to this material is advised to contact the publisher. PrefaceSince the 1960s, 'landscape' has been a key topic of archaeological research all over the world. Initially drawing on environmental archaeology, and using models from the earth sciences as well as cultural ecology, landscapes have been conceptualised predominantly as the natural environments determining human behaviour or as a backdrop to human action. In the New Archaeology of the 1960s, ecology and settlement patterns were studied together with anthropology, with the aim of piecing together information on past economic and social systems (Trigger 1989, 295). Lewis Binford argued that the goal of archaeology should be to understand the range of human behaviours and the differences in culture, based on a belief that cultures were adaptive responses to our environment (Binford 1962), and archaeologists at the time were optimistic that culture and culture change were rational and could be predicted based on archaeological assemblages and settlement patterns.In This volume will begin with a discussion of Landscape Archaeology and its history, followed by a discussion of themes and summaries of the papers in this volume. We end with some concluding remarks 10 · landscape archaeology between art and science and suggestions for future research. Although the editors have put a lot of energy into editing the text of this volume, please note that many contributors are writing in English as a second language. We have endeavoured to smooth out the English, but we apologise for the awkwardness of some phrasing in the text.All 35 papers of the LAC2010 proceedings have been peer-reviewed by at least two reviewers. The editors have approached a large number of peer reviewers within the participating institution within the VU University, the Cultural Heritage Agency and the international Advisory Board of LAC2010. We wish to thank the following colleagues who have made the realisation of the proceedings of LAC2010 possible.

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BCLM: Forging Ahead: building a new urban history of the Black Country

Briercliffe

2020

Urban History

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The recreation of urban historical space in museums is inevitably a complex, large-scale endeavour bridging the worlds of academic and public history. BCLM: Forging Ahead at the Black Country Living Museum is a £23m project recreating a typical Black Country town post-World War II. This article uses case-studies of three buildings – a Civic Restaurant, a record shop and a pub – to argue that urban-historical research methodology and community engagement can both create a vivid sense of the past, and challenge pervasive prejudices. It also argues that such a collaborative and public project reveals much about the urban and regional nature of industrial areas like the Black Country in this pivotal historical moment.

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Characterization in an Urban Setting: The Experience of the Black Country

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Safeguarding Cultural Heritage in the Urban Fringe: The Role of Legibility

Safeguarding Cultural Heritage in the Urban Fringe: The Role of Legibility

Landscape Archaeology between Art and Science : From a Multi- to an Interdisciplinary Approach

BCLM: Forging Ahead: building a new urban history of the Black Country

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