Landscape Archaeology

Harvard FAS

In this course, students will learn what landscapes are and how to study them archaeologically. Landscape archaeology allows us to transit from more site-centered views to a more integrated approach. This helps us to comprehend archaeological sites in their much wider, rich and complex spatial context, their relationship with other sites, as well as with how are they are position within the physical and mythical geography. Rather than a particular time period, the course conceives landscapes…