9/14/2023 0 Comments Dubious practice f95![]() These factors combine to compel a reimagining of regional archaeology. At the same time, there are new insights into human impacts on ancient environments and increased recognition of the importance of micro-scale changes in human society. The past decades have seen significant advances in methods and instrumental techniques, including geographic information systems, the new availability of aerial and satellite images, and greater emphasis on non-traditional data, such as pollen, soil chemistry and botanical remains. Reimagining Regional Analysis explores the interplay between different methodological and theoretical approaches to regional analysis in archaeology. There is also a bibliography for suggested further reading, though of course this is only valid up to 2004, and there have subsequently been many important contributions to landscape archaeology, cultural geography and archaeological discussions of identity. I have also removed the illustrations, but have retained the glossary of theoretical terms included at the rear of the book, one of the aims of which was to try and explain complex theoretical concepts in more accessible terms. This paper represents the final Word text, with some remaining typos, but not the final paginated typeset Archaeopress formatted article. I would love to continue these fictional thought experiments at a future date, perhaps in a graphic novel set during the British later Iron Age. I also wished to focus on ideas of identity, including possible multiple genders and the activities and taskscapes of women and children, which the illustrations too supported. I was particularly keen to try and envisage a Mesolithic world of animist, relational ontologies. Inspired by some of Mark Edmonds' fictional accounts of working wood and flint, I tried to portray something of people's beliefs and cosmologies, a difficult task in which I was only partly sucessful. ![]() The paper was an avowedly experimental exercise in interpretative narrative, to try and create a bridge between sometimes dense theoretical treatments, and more populist accounts. It was also illustrated with imaginative drawings by Cornelius Barton and Erica Hemming. The paper also featured fictional vignettes intended to provide possible insights into very different past lives, world views and understandings of landscape. ![]() In this paper, I used theories of embodiment, identity, materiality and landscape dwelling to write an interpretative archaeology of the Mesolithic, Neolithic and Bronze Age periods on Cranborne Chase in Dorset. ![]()
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