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A phenomenology of landscape A crisis in British landscape archaeology
John C. Barrett,Ilhong Ko +1 more
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In this paper, the authors re-examine the ways in which the phenomenology of Martin Heidegger can offer a more positive contribution to our understanding of the historical context of the creation of these monuments.Abstract:
Recent criticism of the accuracy of the claimed observations on monument location by workers employing a ‘phenomenological’ approach to landscape archaeology in Britain has exposed failures in the way their particular approach has been employed to explain the choices made in the siting of certain Neolithic monuments. This article explains why such errors of record may have occurred and re-examines the ways in which the phenomenology of Martin Heidegger can offer a more positive contribution to our understanding of the historical context of the creation of these monuments.read more
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Entangled: An Archaeology of the Relationships between Humans and Things
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The Monastic Landscape of Late Antique Egypt: An Archaeological Reconstruction
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Violence sits in places? Cultural practice, neoliberal rationalism, and virulent imaginative geographies
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Historical and recent changes in the Spanish forests: a socio-economic process.
María Valbuena-Carabaña,Unai López de Heredia,Pablo Fuentes-Utrilla,Inés González-Doncel,Luis Gil +4 more
TL;DR: A review of how the Spanish forests were influenced by human activities and their changes is provided in this paper, where the most fertile lands were converted into cultivation and more productive cultivars were introduced.
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TL;DR: In this groundbreaking and very accessible book, Dennett, the acclaimed author of Consciousness Explained, demonstrates the power of the theory of natural selection and shows how Darwin's great idea transforms and illuminates our traditional view of our place in the universe as discussed by the authors.
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Being-in-the-World: A Commentary on Heidegger's Being in Time, Division I.
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Symbolic and structural archaeology
TL;DR: Theoretical archaeology: a reactionary view Ian Hodder as discussed by the authors has been proposed as a solution to the problems raised by a structuralist archaeology M. Wylie and M. L. Miller.