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Centre for Landscape at the EAA Conference

Many researchers associated with the Centre for Landscape presented research at the EAA (European Archaeological Association) 2023 Conference in Belfast.

Among numerous sessions with Ãå±±½ûµØ involvement, Centre Co-Director Sam Turner was co-organiser for the session ‘Long-term dynamics of field patterns and land use’. This included a presentation ‘Ancient landscapes of lowland Devon: new insights on origins and transmission’ by Sam Turner and Guillem Domingo Ribas, with colleagues Tim Kinnaird and Aayush Srivastava (St Andrews), Win Scutt (English Heritage) and Maggali Watteaux (Universite de Rennes 2).

Guillem Domingo Ribas co-organised a session ‘Following the steps of past shepherds. Searching for pastoralism in mountain areas’, which included a paper by Francesco Carrer ‘Computational methods in mountain archaeology: opportunities and challenges’

Francesco Carrer and Guillem Domingo Ribas were also co-organisers for the session ‘Peaks of data - collecting, managing and analysing archaeological data from mountain landscapes’.

Stelios Lekakis was a co-organiser for the session ‘Living among the ruins. re-settlement and identity formation in devastated landscapes and abandoned cities’, co-presenting a paper with Graham Fairclough ‘Understanding the end: developing a theoretical frame for devastation in the landscape’.

Maria Duggan co-organised the session ‘Atlantic Connections in the First Millennium AD’.

Louise Rayne and Filippo Brandolini presented ‘Mapping desertification in southern Morocco using google earth engine’ in the session ‘Socio-cultural dimensions of water management in contexts of water scarcity’

On Saturday 2nd Septmber several researchers were involved in the session ’Terraces as sustainable historic landscapes’ co-organised by Sam Turner and Lisa-Marie Shillito with Jose Maria Civantos (University of Granada) and Tim Kinnaird (University of St Andrews). This session provided an opportunity to present findings of the TerraSAgE project – Terraces as Sustainable Agricultural Environments’. 

Presentations in the session included:

‘Terraces as sustainable agricultural environments: long-term perspectives from the Mediterranean’ presented by Sam Turner, with Lisa-Marie Shillito, Filippo Brandolini, Tim Kinnaird, Chris Sevara, Aayush Srivastava (St Andrews University).

‘Characterising terrace systems: using remote sensing data to help understand the role of terraces in landscape development’ by Christopher Sevara, with Natalia Salazar Ortiz (Universitat de Lleida)

‘Origin, development and land degradation of the northern Apennines rural landscape (Italy) by Filippo Brandolini.

‘Upsetting heritage givens: the case of rural heritage on the island of Naxos, Greece’ by Stelios Lekakis.

‘New light on the dating of cultivation terraces on Pelješac peninsula, Croatia’ by Richard Carlton, with Sam Turner, Tim Kinnaird, Aayush Srivastava, Lisa-Marie Shillito, Chris Sevara, and Sophia Germanidou.

‘Reconstructing past agricultural terraced landscapes in Granada, Spain’ by Aayush Srivastava, with Tim Kinnaird, Chris Sevara, Filippo Brandolini, Sam Turner, and José María Martín Civantos, José Abellán Santisteban, Blas Ramos Rodríguez (University of Granada).

‘Rethinking the archaeology of agricultural landscapes in the northeast of the Iberian peninsula through a multidisciplinary approach to Catalonian terraces’ by Natalia Salazar Ortiz, with Sam Turner, Tim Kinnaird, Chris Sevara, Filippo Brandolini and Aayush Srivastava.

‘The terraces of the monks? dating and characterising the agrarian spaces around the monastery of Samos (Lugo, NW Spain)’ by Jose Carlos Sanchez-Pardo (University of Santiago de Compostela) with Sam Turner, Tim Kinnaird, Filippo Brandolini, Francesco Carrer, Aayush Srivastava, Noemi Silva-Sánchez (CSIC), Estefanía López-Salas (University of Coruña), Carlos Otero-Vilariño, (CSIC).

 

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