The School of Archaeology, University of Oxford, is delighted to announce the launch of the book ‘English Landscapes and Identities. Investigating Landscape Change from 1500 BC to AD 1086’. This book is the culmination of a project, funded by the European Research Council (ERC), which began in October 2011 and ran until the end of 2016.
The book is available with a 30% promo code AAFLYG6 at Oxford University Press
Professor Chris Gosden was the Principal Investigator and the project developed through the thoughts and efforts of a team of 10 researchers and DPhil students at the School. The English Landscape and Identities project analysed change and continuity in the English landscape from the middle Bronze Age (c. 1500 BC) to the Domesday survey (c. 1086 AD), synthesising all the major available sources of information on English archaeology to examine this crucial period of landscape history.
The book looks at the nature of archaeological work undertaken across England to assess its strengths and weaknesses when writing long-term histories. Among many topics it examines the interaction of ecology and human action in shaping the landscape; issues of movement across the landscape in various periods; changing forms of food over time; an understanding of spatial scale; and questions of enclosing and naming the landscape, culminating in a discussion of the links between landscape and identity. The result is the first comprehensive account of the English landscape over a crucial 2500-year period. It also offers a celebration of many centuries of archaeological work, especially the intensive large-scale investigations that have taken place since the 1990s and transformed our understanding of England's past.
29 сен 2024
