Unlocking historic landscapes in the Eastern Mediterranean: two pilot studies using Historic Landscape Characterisation

Turner, Sam; Crow, James

doi:10.1017/s0003598x00099889

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“…In many studies on historic landscapes, techniques of the Historic Landscape Characterization (HLC) are applied to investigate landscape dynamics. Developed in the UK during the 1990's, HLC is a theoretical methodology aimed at a better understanding of historical depths present in the modern landscape (Karro et al, 2014;Van Eetvelde, 2006;Turner and Crow, 2010). The application of a consistent methodology for the processing of historical data makes it possible to investigate particular characteristics and changes of landscapes over time.…”

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“…The time depth of an area describes the time period to which the actual elements in the landscape go back (Van Eetvelde, 2006;Antrop, 2007). Time depth maps do not map individual landscape features, but bundles them together based on their historical development and map them as areas (Turner and Crow, 2010). In this study, time depth maps were created for all four study sites.…”

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The importance of the Great War compared to long-term developments in restructuring the rural landscape in Flanders (Belgium)

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The centenary of the Great War has amplified the voices that advocate the preservation of remaining war traces in the Belgian landscape. Modern technologies, such as Lidar, have recently highlighted that much war heritage is still preserved either at or below the surface, including mine craters, shell holes and trenches. However, these traces are largely hidden from the human eye. Less is known about the impact of the Great War on the overall landscape properties and the changing experience of the rural landscape. In this study, changes in land use and landscape structure since the mid-19 th century were reconstructed for four study sites in Flanders that experienced the Great War differently. Historical maps and aerial photography were combined to produce time series of landscape properties, time depth maps and landscape fragmentation and diversity metrics. The interpretation of changes in land use and landscape patterns reveals that the Great War and postwar land recovery did only mark a break for some landscape elements. For two study sites along the Belgian front that were intensively degraded by the war activities, no significant difference in landscape evolution could be identified compared to two study sites that hardly suffered during the Great War. For the most part, long-term socioeconomic developments eroded the significance of the war as a short-term cataclysmic event.

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The importance of the Great War compared to long-term developments in restructuring the rural landscape in Flanders (Belgium)

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“…'Historic landscape characterisation' projects in Turkey have made novel use of the time-depth preserved in the morphology of the contemporary field systems (Crow, Turner 2009;Turner, Crow 2010;Green 2013). In a heavily agriculturally worked landscape, such as the Konya plain where our survey was located, characterising the historic nature of the space in any meaningful way becomes challenging because the contemporary field system has obliterated much of what existed before.…”

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Taphonomies of landscape: investigating the immediate environs of Çatalhöyük from prehistory to the present

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Moore

2018

Anatol. Stud.

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The landscape immediately surrounding the site of Çatalhöyük preserves topographic and ceramic evidence dating from prehistoric times to the present day. This article presents the results of a programme of investigation of the landscape conducted through analysis of remote-sensing, map and field-survey data, with particular emphasis on the first and second millennia AD. The concept of taphonomy, usually defined in archaeology as the process of change after deposition, is applied to the transformation of the settled landscape from its Neolithic origins to its present status as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Taphonomy serves as a linking concept as we explore how past landscapes are mobilised and translated into the ever-changing present.

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“…Le deuxième exemple est plus anecdotique, mais non moins révélateur. Lors d'une conférence internationale dans un pays du nord de l'Europe, alors que je discutais avec un historien français du travail récent d'expérimentation des techniques HLC dans la région de la mer Égée [Turner et Crow 2010], ce dernier me reprocha de « faire du Chouquer ».…”

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Paysages et relations : archéologie, géographie, archéogéographie

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2011

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Dans cette brève contribution l'auteur se propose d'observer comment l'archéologie des paysages a évolué ces dernières années. Ayant été lui-même sollicité pour mettre au point une méthode appelée, au Royaume-Uni, « caractérisation des paysages historiques » (Historic Landscape Characterisation : HLC), il observe que cette méthode gagnerait à s'engager plus loin dans les possibilités théoriques qu'offre l'archéogéographie. Par voie de conséquence, une nouvelle opportunité s'ouvrirait aux archéologues du paysage de replacer leur discipline au coeur des débats sur la société et l'environnement. Ce qui marque un véritable changement par rapport aux décennies précédentes.

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Unlocking historic landscapes in the Eastern Mediterranean: two pilot studies using Historic Landscape Characterisation

Cited by 42 publications

References 20 publications

The importance of the Great War compared to long-term developments in restructuring the rural landscape in Flanders (Belgium)

The importance of the Great War compared to long-term developments in restructuring the rural landscape in Flanders (Belgium)

Taphonomies of landscape: investigating the immediate environs of Çatalhöyük from prehistory to the present

Paysages et relations : archéologie, géographie, archéogéographie

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