Dear Colleagues,

The impact of human societies on their environment gradually increased with time. This impact stems at least from two different sources. On one hand agricultural production, the creation of field systems and various artificial artifacts serving the aims of agricultural practices (e.g. irrigation) led to the changing of both the visual and functional aspects of landscapes. The human-induced alteration of naturally defined landscape forming factors facilitated the creation and birth of cultural landscapes. On the other hand, the establishment of settlements, their ever-growing and changing network reshaped the environmental setting in which prehistoric and historic societies existed. The journey that humankind took over prehistory can be brought to light and placed into the bigger framework of landscape and settlement development and management by understanding the underlying processes. This knowledge will contribute to our understanding of one of the most significant cultural and social developments, which helped to shape our milieu.

For this Special Issue, we seek case studies dealing with the understanding of how cultural landscapes and urbanscapes developed in prehistory and historical times. Original research papers, reviews are welcome, which address theoretical and methodological questions in relation to landscape history, the development of early settlement networks, the presence and importance of anthropogenic features in historical landscapes. The scope of the Special Issue implies a wide range of topics, including the studies applying methods of both natural sciences and humanities.

Dr. Dénes Saláta
Dr. Ákos Pető
Guest Editors

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• cultural heritage management
• cultural landscapes
• historical landscapes
• landscape history
• landscape forming
• multi-proxy archaeological approaches
• archaeological prospection methods
• paleoecology
• geoarchaeology