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Making Sense of an Historic Landscape
Stephen Rippon
416 pages
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100 in text illustrations and 8 pages of colour plates
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234x156mm
978-0-19-953378-7
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Hardback
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12 July 2012
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- An interdisciplinary study which will be of interest to archaeologists, palaeoenvironmentalists, historians, historical geographers, and architectural historians.
- Illustrated throughout with maps, photographs, and 8 pages of colour plates
- Discusses the sources and methods behind Historic Landscape Characterization
Why is it that in some places around the world communities live in villages, while elsewhere people live in isolated houses scattered across the landscape? How does archaeology analyse the relationship between man and his environment? Making Sense of an Historic Landscape explores why landscapes are so varied and how the landscape archaeologist or historian can understand these differences.
Local variation in the character of the countryside provides communities with an important sense of place, and this book suggests that some of these differences can be traced back to prehistory. In his discussion, Rippon makes use
of a wide range of sources and techniques, including archaeological material, documentary sources, maps, field- and place-names, and the evidence contained within houses that are still lived in today, to illustrate how local and regional variations in the 'historic landscape' can be understood. Rippon uses the Blackdown Hills in southern England, which marked an important boundary in landscape character from prehistory onwards, as a specific case study to be applied as a model for other landscape areas. Even today the fields, place-names, and styles of domestic architecture are very different either side of the Blackdown Hills, and it is suggested that these differences in landscape character developed because of deep-rooted differences in the nature of society that are found right across
southern England. Although focused on the more recent past, the volume also explores the medieval, Roman, and prehistoric periods.Readership: For students and scholars or archaeology and landscape archaeology; as well as for palaeoenvironmentalists, ancient historians, and architectural historians.
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Stephen Rippon, Professor of Landscape Archaeology, University of Exeter Stephen Rippon is Professor of Landscape Archaeology at the University of Exeter.
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"This book, then, is a landmark study - simultaneously an excellent exposition of the holistic approach, a fresh treatment of early medieval landscape history in the southwest (leaving aside Cornwall) and a demonstration of the contribution which this part of the world can make to our understanding of pattern and process in English early medieval landscape history as a whole. It well deserves an honoured place on any serious landscape historians bookshelf." - Andrew Fleming, Cambridge Archaeological Journal
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1: Introduction
2: The Physical Character of Landscape
3: The most beautiful landskip in the world ?: The Perceived Character of Landscape
4: Characterising the Cultural Landscape: The Pattern and Language of Settlement
5: Houses in the Landscape
6: The Character of the Fieldscape
7: Beyond the Morphology of Fieldscapes
8: Reconstructing Early Medieval Territorial Arrangements
9: Early Folk Territories on and Around the Blackdown Hills
10: People in the Landscape: The Development of Territorial Structures in Early Medieval Western Wessex and Beyond
11: Patterns of Land-use: Documentary Evidence and Palaeoenvironmental Sequences
12: Arable Cultivation and Animal Husbandry in the Medieval Period
13: Arable Cultivation and Animal Husbandry in the Roman Period
14: Regional Variation in Landscape Character during the Late Prehistoric and Roman Periods
15: Discussion and Conclusions: Communities and their Landscapes
Bibliography
Index
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The specification in this catalogue, including without limitation price, format, extent, number of illustrations, and month of publication, was as accurate as possible at the time the catalogue was compiled. Occasionally, due to the nature of some contractual restrictions, we are unable to ship a specific product to a particular territory. Jacket images are provisional and liable to change before publication.
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