Carolina's Historical Landscapes
Subtitle: Archaeological Perspectives
Contributors: Linda F. Stine (Editor); Martha Zierden (Editor); Lesley M. Drucker (Editor); Christopher Judge (Editor)
Edition: 1st ed edition
Publisher: University of Tennessee Press
Published: June 1997
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 283
ISBN-13: 9780870499760
Subjects: Industrial Archaeology; Social Science; Art; Historical Archaeology; Archaeology / Anthropology; Penology; Landscape archaeology; Archaeology; South Carolina; Antiquities
Description: Featuring contributions by leading scholars, this book goes beyond conventional archaeological studies by placing the description and interpretation of specific sites in the wider context of the landscape that connects them to one another.

As the authors show, one farmstead, house site, brick kiln, Civil War fortification, or iron production site might have marginal significance when considered in isolation, but when linked with other sites of the same type or with places historically related to them, larger patterns and meanings emerge.

Among the unique features of Carolina's Historical Landscapes are essays that explain how private, state, and federal agencies can use landscape as a holistic, interpretive concept to better understand, preserve, and manage historical sites.

Also included are articles by underwater archaeologists that point out how much of Carolina's heritage has been influenced by the changing use of waterways; these essays challenge the false dichotomies that place archaeology into terrestrial and underwater divisions.