Ideas of Landscape

By Matthew Johnson

Ideas of Landscape discusses the current theory and practice of landscape archaeology and offers an alternative agenda for landscape archaeology that maps more closely onto the established empirical strengths of landscape study and has more contemporary relevance.

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• The first historical assessment of a critical period in archaeology
  
• Takes as its focus the so-called English landscape tradition -- the ideological underpinnings of which come from English Romanticism, via the influence of the “father of landscape history”: W. G. Hoskins
  
• Argues that the strengths and weaknesses of landscape archaeology can be traced back to the underlying theoretical discontents of Romanticism
  
• Offers an alternative agenda for landscape archaeology that maps more closely onto the established empirical strengths of landscape study and has more contemporary relevance

• Language: English
• Publisher: Wiley
• Release date: Apr 15, 2008
• ISBN: 9781405178334

Matthew Johnson

Dr. Matthew A. Johnson, a Licensed Clinical Psychologist, has been working in the Mental Health Field since 1982. He is a husband, father of four children, author, international speaker, and Bigfoot Researcher and Interactionist. He met his wife, Cynthia, at their 30th high school reunion. Cynthia works as a Computer Systems Supervisor for a large Law Enforcement Agency in the State of Washington. Dr. Johnson wrote Positive Parenting with a Plan. He has trained thousands of professionals and parents all over the USA, Canada, and around the world. Dr. Johnson spoke at the World Family Therapy Conference in Portugal in 2008. He obtained his BSW from the University of Alaska at Anchorage (U.A.A.) where he played collegiate basketball on a full-ride scholarship. He scored his first two-points on ESPN TV against North Carolina in the Great Alaska Shootout and got half his picture in Sports Illustrated magazine. His silly teammate was in the way of the other half. Dr. Johnson obtained his MSW from Rutgers University and received hi MA and Doctor of Psychology (Psy.D.) degrees from George Fox University. Finally, Dr. Johnson is the author of Bigfoot: A Fifty-Year Journey Come Full Circle. You must read his first Bigfoot book before you read this book. Dr. Johnson is a passionate and entertaining speaker.

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