Archaeological Landscape and Settlement (Third Edition)
A special issue of Land (ISSN 2073-445X). This special issue belongs to the section "Landscape Archaeology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 December 2026 | Viewed by 20
Special Issue Editors
Interests: landscape archaeology; prehistoric archaeology; shell middens; Indus Valley; high-altitude archaeology; lithic mining; hunter-gatherers; early farmers
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Interests: landscape archaeology; prehistoric archaeology; neolithization of Europe; raw material procurement and use; archaeometry of ceramics and stone artefacts; prehistory of the Indus Valley
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The goal of this Special Issue is to collect papers (original research articles and review papers) providing insights about the effect of the human impact on the landscape and the consequence of the exploitation of natural resources.
Since the end of the 1960s, the problem of the human impact on the landscape has attracted the attention of archaeologists. Many things have changed in recent decades, and the study of the human impact on the landscape and the way humans exploited natural resources has improved dramatically. Though the topic is very complex, as it involves geoarchaeological, archaeobotanical, archaeozoological and precise chronological data, it is open to several types of interpretation and speculation. The study of the environmental changes produced by man that have led to the present situation is very actual and worth analysing in detail.
Landscapes are sensible to changes caused by both natural and man-made events. When both effects combine, it is sometimes difficult to distinguish between the causes that contributed to the changes which took place in the past—without written sources. The scope of this volume is to explore these changes, why and when they took place, which were the reasons and the results that followed. How can they be studied? Which are the methods used by the archaeologists to achieve this goal? Did environmental changes influence the expansion of human beings throughout the millennia and why? How can we preserve the evidence for the future generations and show the importance they hold in the study of the present?
Prof. Dr. Paolo Biagi
Dr. Elisabetta Starnini
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- human impact on the landscape
- coastal changes and sea-level rise
- settlement pattern and site complementarity
- raw material exploitation and distribution
- mining stones and ore
- high-altitude settlements and rituals
- preservation of archaeological sites
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Related Special Issue
- Archaeological Landscape and Settlement II in Land (11 articles)
