Europe's Cultural Landscape: Archaeologists and the Management of Change (EAC Occasional Papers)

The Second Europae Archeologiae Consilium Symposium held in Strasbourg in 2001 brought together a collection of international archaeologists researching and studying the cultural landscape across Europe. This collection of 24 papers from the conference highlights the need for increased awareness and understanding of the management and protection of the landscape and the contributors also speak in response to new European policies on landscape management and agriculture. Encouraging dialogue between European colleagues, between institutions and professional agencies, this book addresses archaeological and historical considerations and places them above the usual aesthetic and ecological issues. Contributors include: Gabriel Cooney, Richard Hingley, John Coles, David Gwyn, Ingrid Stoumann, Clarie Foley, Lesley Macinnes, Ellen Lee. Papers in English; abstracts in English, French and German. Foreword / Bénédicte Selfslagh i Preface / Adrian Olivier iii The 'Europae Archaeologiae Consilium' / Adrian Olivier vii Part 1: Contexts and concepts 1. Europe’s landscape: archaeology, sustainability and agriculture / Graham Fairclough 1 2. The European Landscape Convention, Florence / Maguelonne Déjeant-Pons 13 3. Archaeologists and the European Landscape Convention / Graham Fairclough 25 Part 2: Understanding and characterising the cultural landscape 4. The Archaeological Landscape Project: an approach to cultural landscapes in Ireland / Gabriel Cooney, Tom Condit & Emmet Byrnes 39 5. Historic landscapes in the Netherlands / Eduard van Beusekom 49 6. The Belvedere Project: an integrated approach in the Netherlands / Daan Hallewas 55 7. Archaeology and the cultural environment: an example from the Danish Wadden Sea Region / Ingrid Stoumann 61 8. Historic Landscape Characterisation in England and a Hampshire case study / Graham Fairclough, George Lambrick & David Hopkins 69 9. Historic land-use assessment in Scotland / Piers Dixon & Richard Hingley 85 Part 3: Managing change, making the future 10. Past- and future-oriented archaeology: protecting and developing the archaeological-historical landscape in the Netherlands / J. H. F. Bloemers 89 11. Mapping Lancashire’s historic landscape: the Lancashire Historic Landscape Characterisation programme / John Darlington 97 12. European Cultural Paths: a model of co-operation between archaeologists for the management and preservation of cultural landscapes / Ants Kraut 107 13. The contribution of agricultural support measures to protecting the archaeological heritage of Northern Ireland / Claire Foley 117 14. Before and after The Change: the social-economic transition period and its impact on the agriculture and cultural landscape of Poland / Piotr Szpanowski 125 15. Archaeology in the south east of the Iberian Peninsula: a bridge between past and future social spaces / P. V. Castro, R. W. Chapman, T. Escoriza, S. Gili, V. Lull, R. Micó, C. Rihuete Herrada, R. Risch, M. E. Sanahuja Yll & P. Verhagen 133 16. Raising awareness and managing change: the cultural landscape of the Bjäre peninsula, Sweden / Jenny Nord Paulsson 143 17. Rock carvings, cultural landscapes and management issues: case studies from Sweden / John Coles 149 18. The Abava Valley: archaeological heritage and landscape planning in Latvia / Mara Urtane 157 19. Spessart goes Europe: the historic landscape characterisation of a German upland region / Gerhard Ermischer 161 20. Examples of current national approaches I. Switzerland / Cynthia Dunning 169 II. Scotland / Lesley Macinnes 171 III. Portugal / Nuno Vasco Oliveira & Catarina Tente 175 IV. Latvia / Mara Urtane & Juris Urtans 179 V. The Czech Republic / Lenka Krušinová 182 Part 4: Other ways of perceiving cultural landscape 21. Associative landscape in a Welsh context / David Gwyn 187 22. Cultural connections to the land: a Canadian example / Ellen Lee 193 Part 5: Conclusions 23. Conclusion: archaeological management of Europe’s cultural landscape / Graham Fairclough & Stephen Rippon 201 24. EAC Strategy for the European Landscape / Graham Fairclough 207 Abstracts 213 Appendix 227 List of contributors 233 1_titlepage_setting.pdf 3 2_Contents_setting 5 3_foreward_setting 7 4_preface_setting 9 5_eacsummary_setting 13 Blank Page 8 Blank Page 54 Blank Page 78 Blank Page 102 Blank Page 126 Blank Page 136 Blank Page 176 Blank Page 206 Blank Page 236