At Tilaurakot and other archaeological sites of Lumbini and Kapilvastu, the archaeologists have never tried studying the landscape. Likewise gardens situated in Janakpur and Raja garden of Siraha have ...

Each day, Henry Lagang heads into the forest to hunt and forage with a machete slung over one shoulder, a gun over the other, and dogs at his heels. His mother grows rice, and so do his neighbors. For ...

Power and landscape in Atlantic West Africa / J. Cameron Monroe and Akinwumi Ogundiran -- Atlantic impacts on inland Senegambia : French penetration and African initiatives in eighteenth- and ...

Journal of Archaeological Research, Vol. 22, No. 3 (September 2014), pp. 229-276 (48 pages) This article explores the coevolution of landscape approaches and geospatial tools in Middle Eastern ...

Sardinia has played a vital integrative role in the Holocene Mediterranean, most notably—although not only—as a key locus in emergent maritime “Mediterraneanization” and as an object of contestation ...

The study of Maya archaeology has increasingly embraced interdisciplinary approaches that integrate traditional excavations with advanced landscape studies. Recent decades have witnessed a ...

Scientists have used sub-surface imaging and aerial surveys to see through floodplains in the Red Lily Lagoon area of West Arnhem Land in Australia. These ground-breaking methods showed how this ...

Throughout history, landscapes have affected human actions, and human actions have affected landscapes. The complex interactions between humans and the environment help shape who we are, where and how ...

Intricate carvings depicting ancient gods adorn much of the structure. Field Museum scientist Luis Muro Ynoñán with the carving of a mythological bird creature in La Otra Banda, Cerro Las Animas.

Sheffield’s interdisciplinary approach to landscape archaeology combines perspectives and methods from biological and environmental sciences, ethnography, geography, geomatics, heritage studies and ...

Archeaologist Neil Puckett swims with a mastodon bone he dug up from the bottom of the Aucilla River. Adam Burke Courtesy of the Center for the Study of the First Americans (CSFA) Unlike almost any ...