Archaeology of Mountain Landscapes

Arnau Garcia-Molsosa is a Researcher at the Catalan Institute of Classical Archaeology in Spain.

Illustrations

1. Mountain Landscapes: The Archaeological Perspective
Arnau Garcia-Molsosa

2. Steps Lost: Mountains as Sacred Topographies?
Felipe Criado-Boado (with Ana Ruíz-Blanch in section 4)

3. Toward an Anthropology of Sacred Mountains
Phillips Stevens Jr.

4. An Integrated Approach to the Archaeology of a Sacred Mountain: Sacred Geography, Mobile Pastoralism, and Longue Duree in the Mongolian Altai Mountains
Cecilia Dal Zovo

5. The Mountainscape of the Peak Sanctuary at Leska on Kythera
Mercourios Georgiadis

6. Exploring Seasonal Transhumance of Hunter-Gatherers and Neolithic Pastoralists in Poland’s High Tatras and Foothill Lowlands: Applying Landscape Archaeology Methodologies from the Colorado Rockies to the Western Carpathians
Robert H. Brunswig and Pawel Valde-Nowak

7. The Onset of Alpine Pastoral Systems in the Eastern Alps
Klaus D. Oeggl, Daniela Festi, and Andreas Putzer

8. Central Alpine Environments as Mountain Cultural Landscapes from Prehistory to Contemporary Past
Franco Nicolis

9. Mountain Archaeology of the Bronze Age Caucasus: From Vertical Pastoralism to Combined Mountain Economy and Mountain Farming
Sabine Reinhold, Andrey B. Belinskiy, and Dmitrij S. Korobov

10. Landscape Archaeology in Eastern Pyrenees High Mountain Areas (Segre and Ter Valleys, Northeast Iberian Peninsula): Human Activities in the Shaping of Mountain Cultural Landscapes
Josep M. Palet, Hèctor A. Orengo, Arnau Garcia-Molsosa, Tania Polonio, Ana Ejarque, Yannick Miras, and Santiago Riera

11. Southern Norway’s Mountain Landscapes: Between National Romantic Legends and the Political Economy of Agropastoralism
Christopher Prescott and Lene Melheim

12. Comparison between Medieval and Modern Landscape: The Impact of Pastoral Activities in South Greenland
Emilie Gauthier

13. Neolithic Penetration of the European Mid-Mountains
Pawel Valde-Nowak

14. Addressing the Complexity of the Paleoenvironmental Impact of Prehistoric Settlement and Protohistoric Urbanism in the Auvergne Mountains (Massif Central, France)
Yannick Miras, Michela Mariani, Florian Couderc, Marlène Lavrieux, and Paul M. Ledger

15. Holocene Anthropization of Mid-elevation Landscapes around Pic d’Orhy, Western Pyrenees
Michael R. Coughlan, David S. Leigh, Paul M. Ledger, and Mélanie Le Couédic

16. Highlands and Lowlands—Different Landscapes, Different Archaeologies? A Diachronic Micro-regional Case Study from the Western Taurus Mountains (Southwest Turkey)
Ralf Vandam, Eva Kaptijn, Patrick T. Willett, and Jeroen Poblome

17. Developing a Systematic Approach to the Archaeological Study of Mountain Landscapes: The Raganello Basin Experience
Martijn van Leusen, Wieke de Neef, and Jan Sevink

18. Agropastoralism in a Dispersed Village, Mountain Economy: Results of the Shala Valley Project, Northern Albania
Michael L. Galaty

19. The Inka Landscape of Cusco and the Watanay Valley: Territorial Patterns in Andean Cities
José Alejandro Beltrán-Caballero and Ricardo Mar

20. On the Supposed Marginality of Mountain Areas
Hèctor A. Orengo

Contributors
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