Landscape archaeology refers to a way of study of past people and their matter culture in the context of the wider environment. The landscape may be large, for example a wide marshy river delta or small, like a back garden. It is time and again employed in cultural resources management to be familiar with exposed sites. Landscape archeology addresses the difficult issues of the behavior that people purposely and deliberately shaped the land around them.
The question of what accurately constitutes a site has been discussed at length by generations of archaeologists. Areas of examination are not limited to the boundaries of an excavation but can as an alternative stretch for many miles. Excavation is characteristically impractical on such a scale and landscape archaeologists’ hub on the noticeable features that can be known and recorded on the ground surface to create a picture of human activity across a region.
Archaeological features covered just below the surface time and again leave tell-tale 'lumps and bumps', plough action in fields can lift archaeological matter to the surface, in areas of limited human activity, worked flint scatters can go on untouched for many centuries and standing buildings and field boundaries can be of big antiquity yet archaeologically unexamined.
The question of what accurately constitutes a site has been discussed at length by generations of archaeologists. Areas of examination are not limited to the boundaries of an excavation but can as an alternative stretch for many miles. Excavation is characteristically impractical on such a scale and landscape archaeologists’ hub on the noticeable features that can be known and recorded on the ground surface to create a picture of human activity across a region.
Archaeological features covered just below the surface time and again leave tell-tale 'lumps and bumps', plough action in fields can lift archaeological matter to the surface, in areas of limited human activity, worked flint scatters can go on untouched for many centuries and standing buildings and field boundaries can be of big antiquity yet archaeologically unexamined.