Interpreting landscapes : geologies, topographies, identities
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Interpreting landscapes : geologies, topographies, identities
（Explorations in landscape phenomenology, 3）
Routledge, 2016
- : pbk
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Originally published: Walnut Creek, Calif. : Left Coast Press, 2010
Includes bibliographical references (p. 491-513) and index
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Description
This book takes a new approach to writing about the past. Instead of studying the prehistory of Britain from Mesolithic to Iron Age times in terms of periods or artifact classifications, Tilley examines it through the lens of their geology and landscapes, asserting the fundamental significance of the bones of the land in the process of human occupation over the long duree. Granite uplands, rolling chalk downlands, sandstone moorlands, and pebbled hilltops each create their own potentialities and symbolic resources for human settlement and require forms of social engagement. Taking his findings from years of phenomenological fieldwork experiencing different landscapes with all senses and from many angles, Tilley creates a saturated and historically imaginative account of the landscapes of southern England and the people who inhabited them. This work is also a key theoretical statement about the importance of landscapes for human settlement.
Table of Contents
List of Illustrations, List of Tables, PREFACE, Part I: Interpreting Landscapes, Part II: Chalk Country, Part III: From Pebbles to Sandstone and Slate, Part IV: Granite, REFERENCES, INDEX, ABOUT THE AUTHOR
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