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

Bezant, Jemma; Grant, Kevin

doi:10.1080/00794236.2016.1169782

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“…This especially applies to historical archaeology, where simplistic historical metanarratives often fail to recognise the dynamism and complexity in post-medieval rural landscapes (Campbell 2009;Geddes & Grant 2015). This study therefore joins the growing body of work that advocates a more nuanced understanding of the changes which occurred in rural landscapes across much of Scotland in the post-medieval period (Cameron 2001;Dalglish 2003;Campbell 2009;Adamson 2014;Geddes & Grant 2015;Bezant & Grant 2016). These seek to challenge the simple dichotomies of pre-and post-Improvement to understand change as a process that is varied and local, but also an integral part of wider changes in societies and landscapes across the post-medieval world.…”

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Interdisciplinary approaches to a connected landscape

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The key to understanding a landscape is through its connections, which tie together people and environment within and beyond that landscape and across many different periods. This is particularly true of the northern face of the Ochil Hills in central Scotland, which is characterised by dense networks of connections between lowlands and uplands, local and regional. To trace those connections we integrate the results of walkover survey, aerial archaeology, excavations, documentary analysis and place name analysis, revealing significant continuities and differences in the networks and relationships that have connected this landscape across time and space. Iron Age hillforts used their prominence and monumentality to guide people along very specific routes across the Ochils. Regular seasonal movements of cattle and herders in the medieval and post-medieval periods were closely related to the agriculture and settlement they encountered on the way: this interaction can be clearly seen in the elaborate intertwining of paths, braided cattle tracks, farmsteads and enclosures, most strikingly in the 18th century. Such intricate connections across the landscape are equally keyed in to the specifics of particular locations and to much broader networks and historical change.

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“…Therefore, the evolution of the historical rural landscape provides a medium for understanding the human-nature interactions in villages [9][10][11]. As a unique overlay result of the accumulated and discernible landscape elements in the countryside, the current village landscape objectively records the evolution of the village in time and space and the internal development mechanism, which can assist in understanding how the past village landscape formed as well as what changed and why [12,13]. To pursue a sustainable development path for a rural area, it is necessary to not only understand its current situation, but also to be familiar with its historical changes and understand the development mechanism.…”

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Participatory Historical Village Landscape Analysis Using a Virtual Globe-Based 3D PGIS: Guizhou, China

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The analysis of historical village landscape characteristics and the influential driving factors of their evolutions can provide an essential decision-making basis for rural sustainable development strategies and landscape planning. How to obtain historical village landscape data at a time when objectively recorded data, such as remote sensing images, were unavailable is a key problem that restricts the analysis of village landscape evolution characteristics. As local villagers are important knowledge sources regarding historical village landscapes, a participatory data collection and analysis approach was used for village historical landscape data in this paper using a virtual globe-based three-dimensional participatory geographic information system (3D PGIS). Taking Duimengshan village, Guizhou, China, as a case study, the 3D landscape of the Duimengshan village and corresponding major historical events in four historical periods, 1958, 1980, 1995, and 2015, were collected in an on-site, interactive way by researchers with the participation of local villagers, and its land-use structure, ecosystem service values, and landscape pattern were analyzed. The results show that the historical landscapes in the four periods were strongly related to important local historical events. The 3D PGIS greatly mobilized the enthusiasm of villagers to participate with its intuitive 3D display form and simple and easy-to-use operation mode. It can be concluded that the historical landscape memory of local villagers and the oral inheritance information handed down from generation to generation can be utilized to make up for the lack of remote sensing and other objective data in the collection and acquisition of historical village landscape data. The obtained historical village landscape characteristics and their evolution laws can be used in future participatory rural planning and landscape design.

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The centrality of the margins. Global intersections of a Basque rural area in the recent past

Escribano-Ruiz

2019

World Archaeology

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

Cited by 5 publications

References 51 publications

Interdisciplinary approaches to a connected landscape

Interdisciplinary approaches to a connected landscape

Participatory Historical Village Landscape Analysis Using a Virtual Globe-Based 3D PGIS: Guizhou, China

The centrality of the margins. Global intersections of a Basque rural area in the recent past

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