Response to letter from Paustenbach et al.

The post-medieval rural landscape: towards a landscape archaeology?

“…47 The 2000 volume Townships to Farmsteads brought together an impressive array of informative articles from a number of disciplines across the UK. 48 Until around 2000, the study of the Highlands and Islands had tended to be somewhat inward-looking, cut off from the post-processual movement which had been in full swing in wider archaeology for over a decade. 49 Three articles in particular in that volume represent more outward-looking and theoretically contextualized approaches to the rural highland landscape, and can be used to frame a broader discussion of the topic.…”