Landskabsarkæologi

Landskabet kan byde på store oplevelser og rummer spændende historier fra vores fortid. Bogen levendegør i tekst, fotografier og tegninger oldtidens Danmark og de mennesker, der boede i landet. Det er historiefortælling for hele familien. Det er fascinerende, at vores lille og intensivt opdyrkede land kan byde på så mange spektakulære steder, fyldt med stemning af uberørthed, historie og magi. En gravhøj er ikke bare en bunke jord, men et monument bygget af tusindvis af græstørv, stablet af en udvalgt gruppe mennesker og efter en nøje tilrettelagt plan. De 72 fortællinger danner en samlet historie om perioden fra rensdyrjægerne kom til landet lige efter istidens slutning omkring år 11.000 f.v.t. og frem til vikingekongernes statsdannelse omkring år 1000.

Det danske landskab bugter sig i bakkedal, men hvorfor gør det egentlig det? Svaret findes i istiden, der har sat sit altdominerende aftryk på vores land igennem mange hundredetusinde år. I denne bog fortælles historien om, hvordan istidslandskaberne er opstået, og hvilke processer der ligger bag. Med udgangspunkt i moderne digitale landskabsanalyser, den omfangsrige litteratur og de seneste års landvindinger inden for forståelsen af landskabsdannende processer giver bogen en faglig indføring i istidens naturforhold og gletsjernes, smeltevandets og permafrostens kræfter.?Istiden i det danske landskab er den første sammenhængende og landsdækkende redegørelse siden midten af 1900-tallet for istidslandskabet, dets opståen og dets videre skæbne. Bogen er struktureret som et atlas over Danmark inddelt i 11 regioner, hvor det gennemgående tema er terrænformernes opståen og deres indre opbygning som landskaber, der ligger i lag oven på hinanden og er brudt i stykker nedisning efter nedisning. Derudover sættes der fokus på særlige emner fra de enkelte regioner, og bogen afsluttes med et nytegnet landskabskort over hele landet. 

Explores the well-preserved archaeological landscape around Wether Hill in the English-Scottish borderlands.

Northern Africa is dominated now by the Sahara Desert, stretching across the continent from the Atlantic Ocean to the Red Sea. This book is about the people who lived around the edges of the Desert and the different ways in which they responded to its challenges, establishing networks of communication across its expanse.

An in-depth study of the rich and varied archaeology and history of the Llŷn Peninsula, north-western Wales, from the Mesolithic to early Christian times.

A collection of ten papers focusing on the prehistoric, late-ancient and medieval-historical archaeological heritage of the Hyblaean area and in the south-eastern apex of Sicily, with particular attention to rupestrian archaeology.

These essays examine how various communities remembered and commemorated their shared past through the lens of utopia and its corollary, dystopia, providing a framework for the reinterpretation of rapidly changing religious, cultural and political realities of the turbulent period from 300 to 750 CE.

This book explores the Skelligs, Ireland's most dramatic and beautiful Atlantic islands, and focuses particularly on Skellig Michael, a famous UNESCO World Heritage Site. It considers why the construction of a remarkable monastic site near the peak of this island over a thousand years ago stands as one of the most remarkable achievements in the history of Christianity.

Explores the progressive social and economic response of local prehistoric communities to sea level rise and environmental change based on evidence from Mount's Bay, Cornwall.

This book charts and explains how human activities have shaped and altered the development of soils in many parts of the world, taking advantage of five decades of soil analytical work in many archaeological landscapes from around the globe. The core of this volume describes and illustrates major transformations of soils and the processes involved in these that have occurred during the Holocene and how these relate to human activities as much as natural causes and trajectories of development, right up to the present day. This is done in two ways: first by examining a number of major processes and impacts on the landscape such as Holocene warming and the development of woodland, clearance and agricultural activities, and second by examining the trajectories of these changes in soil systems in different palaeo-environmental situations in several diverse parts of the world. The transformations identified are relevant to prevalent themes of today such as over-development and soil, land and environmental degradation and resilience. The studies articulated relate to Britain, southeastern Europe, the Mediterranean basin, East Africa, northern India and Peru in South America.