Colloquia Pontica 3: Landscapes in Flux: Central and Eastern Europe in Antiquity

Landscape archaeology, a recent theoretical discovery in the west, has long been practised by eastern european scholars. This stimulating collection of papers ranges over the whole of central and eastern Europe and from the Neolithic to the early Medieval periods. Contents include: Landscape in Flux and colonisation of time (J Chapman); Theorising landscapes: the concept of the historical interactive landscape (M Zvelebil & J Benes?); Impermanence and flux in the landscapes of early agricultural south eastern Europe (D W Bailey); Sacred space in the cultural landscape of Slavic peoples in the pre-Christian period (L P Slupecki); Landscape and subsistence in the Hallstatt Stockades Biskupin Type (A F Harding); The ancient landscape of Berezan island (V V Nazarov); Spatial organisation in the Tisza flood plain: dynamic landscapes and GIS (M Gillings); The impact of early agriculture upon the Hungarian landscape (K J Willis); Environment and late Palaeolithic human settlement in the North Pontic Steppe (Yu N Gribchenko & E I Kurenkova); Landscape flux and early farming in the Ukraine (G A Pashkevich); Landscape at the Mesolithic-Neolithic transition in the Boreal east European plain (P M Dolukhanov).