Places, perceptions, boundaries and tasks: rethinking landscapes in wetland archaeology

O'Sullivan, A. and Van de Noort, R. (2007) Places, perceptions, boundaries and tasks: rethinking landscapes in wetland archaeology. In: Archaeology from the Wetlands: recent perspectives. Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, pp. 79-89.

Abstract/Summary

This paper is an elaboration of one of the chapters in our Rethinking Wetland Archaeology (Van de Noort & O'Sullivan 2006), and concerns the archaeological study of wetland landscapes. In this book, we argue that many approaches to the archaeology of wetlands have failed to influence our peers and colleagues in the broader field of landscape archaeology and, indeed, archaeology itself, and thus the great promise of wetland archaeology remains unfulfilled (Coles 2001).