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Cultural Landscapes: Conservation and Preservation

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Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology

Introduction

Cultural landscapes offer a way of understanding how societies interact with their environment. Built features and land modifications combined with the natural landscape are the cultural landscape expression that holds records of how communities live in time and space within a landscape. Records of human activities may extend back in time for thousands of years to tell the story of the economic organization of a long past society such as the “Kuk Early Agricultural Site”, Papua New Guinea, and “Schokland and Surroundings”, the Netherlands, that is land reclaimed from the sea containing vestiges of historic and prehistoric human habitation. More extensive cultural landscapes, such as the “Incense Route and Desert Cities in the Negev”, Israel, combine associated fortresses and agricultural landscapes in the Negev desert with the relics of their sophisticated irrigation systems, urban constructions, forts, and caravanserai (examples from UNESCO World Heritage List 2012).

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  1. ICOMOS – IFLA International Scientific Committee on Cultural Landscapes, Madrid, Spain

    Mónica Luengo

  2. ICOMOS – IFLA International Scientific Committee on Cultural Landscapes, Burra, NSW, Australia

    Juliet Ramsay

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    Claire Smith

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Luengo, M., Ramsay, J. (2014). Cultural Landscapes: Conservation and Preservation. In: Smith, C. (eds) Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-0465-2_501

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