This review calls for the definition of a landscape approach in archaeology. After tracing the development of the landscape idea over its history in the social sciences and examining the compatibility between this concept and traditional archaeolog- ical practice, we suggest that archaeology is particularly well suited among the social sciences for defining and applying a landscape approach. If archaeologists are to use the landscape paradigm as a pattern which connects human behavior with particular places and times, however, we need a common terminology and methodology to build a construct paradigm. We suggest that settlement ecology, ritual landscapes, and ethnic landscapes will contribute toward the definition of such a broadly encompassing paradigm that also will facilitate dialogue between archaeologists and traditional communities.
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Anschuetz, K. F., Wilshusen, R. H., & Scheick, C. L. (2001). An Archaeology of Landscapes : Perspectives and Directions. Journal of Archaeological Research, 9(2), 157–211. https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1016621326415
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