Archaeological Perspectives on Contested and Political Landscapes

Eduardo Herrera Malatesta is a Venezuelan archaeologist specialising in Landscape research, regional surveys, and Geographical Information Systems. He studied anthropology with a specialisation in archaeology at the Universidad Central de Venezuela (BA) and Instituto Venezolano de Investigaciones Cientificas (MA). He then specialised in GIS in archaeology at the University College London (MSc), and later, he got his PhD in Archaeology at Leiden University. He has held postdoctoral positions at Leiden University and later at Aarhus University as a Marie Curie postdoctoral fellow. He has recently started a position as a postdoctoral researcher at Leiden University.

Chapter 1. Introduction: Contested and Political Landscapes - Eduardo Herrera Malatesta
Chapter 2. On Contested Taskscapes - Eduardo Herrera Malatesta
Chapter 3. Archaeology in the Tripartito: Landscape and the nation-state in the south-central Andes - Noa Corcoran-Tadd
Chapter 4. The Dramatized Landscape of Juktas: A topoanalytic approach to a Minoan peak sanctuary in Crete - Maria Chountasi
Chapter 5. Lived space of displaced people: A comparative approach to contested spaces in Iron Age Northern Mesopotamia and modern Berlin - Vera Egbers
Chapter 6. The Landscape of Moving Tree Trunks and Other Unnatural Phenomenon: Contesting Archaeologies from the Global South - O. Hugo Benavides
Chapter 7. Landscapes of power and resilience: Aristocratic-driven landscapes in the Duero basin - Jesús García Sánchez
Chapter 8. Changing Landscapes, Changing People in Northwestern New Mexico - Kellam Throgmorton
Chapter 9. Cruzando la Cerca: Indigenous Mounded Landscapes in Nicaragua - Alexander Geurds
Chapter 10. Pretoria, drawing board of the Apartheid regime - David Koren
Chapter 11. Discussion: Reconsidering all that you see: reassessing landscapes in archaeology - Juan P. Bellón and Carmen Rueda