Table of Contents Conference Publication Editorial Wiebke Bebermeier, Robert Hebenstreit, Elke Kaiser, Jan Krause “The Immense Respiration of a Social Structure”: An Integrated Approach to the Landscape Archaeology of the Mediterranean Lands John Bintliff Prehistoric Land Use and Its Impact on Soil Formation since Early Neolithic. Examples from the Lower Rhine Area Renate Gerlach, Eileen Eckmeier Finding the Needle in the Haystack by Using Knowledge of Mesolithic Human Adaptation in a Drowning Delta Henk Weerts, Andrea Otte, Bjørn Smit, Peter Vos, Dimitri Schiltmans, Wouter Waldus, Wil Borst Hunter-Gatherers in Dynamic Landscapes: Modeling Land Use Strategies in the Central River Valley of the Netherlands Marieka Brouwer Burg The Reconstruction of a Buried Maas River Landscape near Lomm, (Limburg, The Netherlands) Using a Multi-Disciplinary Approach; Human Adaption to Landscape Changes Johanna A.A. Bos, Frieda S. Zuidhoff, Kirsten van Kappel, Danny A. Gerrets Past Soil Erosion in Central Europe: Human Impact and Long Term Effects Markus Dotterweich Soil Degradation and Shifting Habitation Patterns in the Sand Landscapes of the Southern Netherlands Nico Roymans, Sjoerd Kluiving Human Activity in the Silvretta Massif and Climatic Developments throughout the Holocene Christoph Walser, Karsten Lambers Late Quaternary Climate Change and Egypt’s Earliest Pre-Pharaonic Farmers, Fayum Basin, Egypt Annelies Koopman, Sjoerd Kluiving, Willeke Wendrich, Simon Holdaway
Staying Home or Staying with your Cattle? Different Reactions to Environmental Changes in the Late Bronze Age of the Lower Don Area (Southern Russia) Leon van Hoof, Ortwin Dally, Marlen Schlöffel Prehistoric and Early Historic Agricultural Landscapes in the Kislovodsk Basin (Northern Caucasus, Russia) Andrey V. Borisov, Dmitrij S. Korobov Geoarchaeological Investigations of Pre-Yangshao Agriculture, Ecological Diversity and Landscape Change in North China Yijie Zhuang, Charles French Survey Strategy in Disturbed Landscapes: A Case Study from the Nile Delta Joanne Rowland, Rebecca Phillipps Surveying the Complexity: A Global Approach to Italian Landscapes Marinella Pasquinucci, Simonetta Menchelli The Harbour of Pergamum – Coastal Evolution of the Bay of Elaia (NW Turkey) Martin Seeliger, Helmut Brückner, Stefan Feuser, Felix Pirson Fleeing from a Little Bit of Water: A Very ‘Un-Roman’ Response to Changing Environmental Constraints. A Case Study from Monteux, Southern France Sabrina Save, Loïc Buffat, Christopher Rob Batchelor, Dorcas Vannieuwenhuyse, Michèle Bois, Benjamin Durand The Geology and Papyrology of Hermopolis and Antinoopolis Judith Bunbury, Myrto Malouta Geoecological Settings as a Driving Factor behind Pre-Columbian Human Occupation Patterns in Bolivian Amazonia Umberto Lombardo The Pyramid Complexes and the Ancient Landscape of Dahshur/Egypt Nicole Alexanian, Wiebke Bebermeier, Dirk Blaschta, Arne Ramisch Reconstructing Landscapes and Waterscapes in Thebes, Egypt Angus Graham, Kristian D. Strutt, Morag Hunter, Sarah Jones, Aurélia Masson, Marie Millet, Benjamin Pennington A Near Eastern Megalithic Monument in Context Mike Freikman The Elaborated Ancient Water Supply System of Resafa. Risk and Uncertainty of
Water Harvesting in the Syrian Desert Steppe Brian Beckers, Jonas Berking, Brigitta Schütt Location, Location, Location: the Construction and Preservation of Roman Burial Mounds in the Dutch River Delta Marjolein T.I.J. Bouman, Kirsten van Kappel, Linda P. Verniers Late Neolithic Henge Monuments as Foci for Evolving Funerary Landscapes: Knowlton Henge Complex and the Barrow Cemeteries of the Allen Valley, Dorset, UK – A Case Study John Gale What is Landscape? Towards a Common Concept within an Interdisciplinary Research Environment Frank Förster, Ralph Großmann, Karina Iwe, Hanno Kinkel, Annegret Larsen, Uta Lungershausen, Chiara Matarese, Philipp Meurer, Oliver Nelle, Vincent Robin, Michael Teichmann Understanding the Relationship between Landscape and Identity: A Case Study from Dartmoor and the Tamar Valley, Devon, c. 1500 BC – AD 1086 Letty ten Harkel, Chris Gosden, Anwen Cooper, Miranda Cresswell, Chris Green, Laura Morley Theoretical Concepts and Fieldwork Reality – A Large-Scale Landscapearchaeological Project in the Rhenish Lignite Opencast Mining Region and Its Methodological Programme Timo Bremer Death, Disposal and Social Memory - Towards a Definition of Funerary Landscapes Tibor-Tamás Daróczi Soils, Sediments and Landscapes of Dwelling: Geoarchaeology and the Symmetrical Project Nikos Kourampas Models of Centrality Oliver Nakoinz Landscape Response to Human Impact in Coastal Newfoundland, Canada: 29,000km of ‘Untouched’ Coastline Norm Catto, Gail Catto A Preliminary Model of Upper Pleistocene Landscape Evolution in the Wadi Sabra (Jordan) Based on Geoarchaeological Investigations
Manuel Bertrams, Jens Protze, Daniel Schyle, Nicole Klasen, Jürgen Richter, Frank Lehmkuhl Ancient Rural Managements and Their Impact on the Landscape in Southern Syria Chadi Hatoum Resilience of Meta-Stable Landscapes? The Non-Linear Response of Late Glacial Aeolian Landforms to Prehistoric Reclamation along Dutch River Valleys Nico W. Willemse, Bert J. Groenewoudt Human Impact on the Landscape of the Masurian Lakeland in the Roman Period (NE Poland) Maciej Karczewski Past Land-Use and Fire Management in the Montafon Valley (Northern Alps): An Integrated Palaeoenvironmental Approach Astrid Röpke Alpine Summer Farms – Upland Animal Husbandry and Land Use Strategies in the Bernese Alps (Switzerland) Brigitte Andres Characterization of Archaeological Soils and Sediments Using VIS Spectroscopy Eileen Eckmeier, Renate Gerlach How Long Will It Take? Regeneration of Vegetation and Soil after Clearing, Burning and Cultivation. The Forchtenberg-Experiment Erhard Schulz Archaeobotanical Investigations in the Trans-Urals (Siberia) - The Vegetation History Astrid Stobbe, Arie Joop Kalis Landscape Systems and Human Land-Use Interactions in Mediterranean Highlands and Littoral Plains during the Late Holocene: Integrated Analysis from the InterAmbAr Project (North-Eastern Catalonia) Josep M. Palet, Ramon Julia, Santiago Riera, Ana Ejarque, Hèctor A. Orengo, Yannick Miras, Arnau Garcia, Philippe Allée, Jane Reed, Javier Marco, Maria Angels Marqués, Glòria Furdada, Jordi Montaner Human Land Use Strategies in a Mediterranean Mid-Mountain Landscape (Montseny Massif, Barcelona). Analysing Human Landscape Impact through Archaeological and Geomorphological Analysis Arnau Garcia, Marta Flórez, Meritxell Lladó, Itxaso Euba, Josep M. Palet, Santiago Giralt
The Structuring of the Landscape in the Low Padua Plain (Italy) during Roman Times: New Contributions from an Archaeomorphological Study of the Territory Michele Matteazzi The Lower Danube Valley through the Holocene: Environmental Changes and Their Geoarchaeological Implications Dirk Nowacki, Jürgen Wunderlich Geomorphic Evidence of Past Human Activity: Examples from Depopulated Villages in the Sudetes Mountains, SW Poland Agnieszka Latocha Spatial Information Technologies and Landscape Archaeology: Past Problems and Future Directions Kenneth L. Kvamme Using Spatial Information Systems to Create Archaeological Prediction Maps for Municipalities in the Netherlands Ananda Buesink, Dennis F.A.E. Voeten Characterization and Analysis of Natural Resource Potentials for Archaeological Site Location Using the Example of the Early Bronze Age in Central Germany Matthias Witt, Maik Evers, Markus Möller, Christian Dette Chronology, Uncertainty and GIS: A Methodology for Characterising and Understanding Landscapes of the Ancient Near East Dan Lawrence, Jennie Bradbury, Robert Dunford Concepts of Centrality and Models of Exchange in Prehistoric Western Anatolia Daniel Knitter, Max Bergner, Barbara Horejs, Brigitta Schütt, Michael Meyer The Neolithic on the Move: High Resolution Settlement Dynamics Investigations and Their Impact on Archaeological Landscape Studies in Southwest Azerbaijan Andrea Ricci, Barbara Helwing, Tevekkül Aliyev Analysing the Rural Landscape around Pompeii before the Eruption of SommaVesuvius in AD 79 Sebastian Vogel, Domenico Esposito, Florian Seiler, Michael Märker Between Land and Sea: A GIS Based Settlement Analysis of the Ancient Coastal Lagoon of Piombino (Tuscany, Italy) Pierluigi Giroldini The Impact of Agricultural Practices and Water Management in the Eastern Spanish
Coast during the Iron Age and Roman Periods: Methodological Approaches and First Results Hector A. Orengo Coupling of Geomorphological, Geophysical, Geochemical and Archaeological Spatial Data for a Study of the Interface of the Latène and Przeworsk Cultures in NE Germany Philipp Hoelzmann, Björn Rauchfuß, Burkart Ullrich, Wiebke Bebermeier, Georg Kaufmann, Brigitta Schütt, Michael Meyer Wagons on the Move. The Study of Wagons through Landscape Archaeology Mattia Raccidi