Landscapes bear traces of the use of resources over long periods. These reflect not only ways of using, shaping, organising, controlling and exchanging resources, but also knowledge, perceptions, motivations for actions and related social dynamics. Resources can be material as well as immaterial and constitute the basis for the development and decline of societies. They are usually not exploited in isolation, but as parts of complexes whose specific constellation in time and space can be best described as assemblages. This topic was the subject of the session ‘Human-Made Environments: The Development of Landscapes as Resource Assemblages’ held at the 24th Annual Meeting of the European Association of Archaeologists (Barcelona, 5–8 September 2018) and forms the basis of this volume. The general purpose is a debate on new concepts of the interrelation of social dynamics and resource use and a discussion of case studies in which landscapes were shaped to facilitate the utilisation of resources. The identification of what has been considered to be a resource is discussed as well as the means through which the corresponding landscapes were transformed and the results of these transformations. This implies not only material, but also spiritual aspects linked to the exploitation of resources. Since ResourceAssemblages are products of historical evolution and mutual relations the mechanisms of these processes are of great significance. Supreme aspects comprise the detection of a conscious human formation of landscapes in order to suit the exploitation of resources, the connected social practices as well as socio-cultural dynamics linked to the use of resources
Human-made environments: the development of landscapes as resourceassemblages: an introduction
Martin Bartelheim, Leonardo García Sanjuán, Roland Hardenberg
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Dwelling in an animated landscape: forms of attachment between environment and people in eastern India
págs. 23-34
págs. 35-51
Local resource management imprinted in the landscape: convergent evolution in two greek mountain-plains during the last five centuries
Helene Simoni, Kostas Papagiannopoulos, Rigas Tsiakiris, Kalliopi Stara
págs. 53-73
Abandoned villages: an archaelogical approach to studying social and landscape transformations in the Pyrenees
Oscar Jané Checa, Oliver Vergés i Pons, Carles Gascón Chopo, Carlos Guardia Carbonell
págs. 75-88
Waterscapes through time: the Menga well as a unique hydraulic resource in its geographic and historical context
Leonardo García Sanjuán, Raquel Montero Artús, Coronada Mora Molina
págs. 89-116
Landscapes of control and connection: reconstructing mobility among apulian late prehistoric communities, Italy
págs. 117-137
The known unknowns: full Bronze Age settlement and landscape use in the lower and middle Guadalquivir valley
Martin Bartelheim, Döbereiner Chala Aldana, Marta Díaz-Zorita Bonilla
págs. 139-162
Defining a landscape: the socio-cultural significance of man-made and natural demarcations in a danish early Iron Age landscape
págs. 163-173
The designed landscape: spatial concepts of human-environmental interactions in Early Medieval South Germany
págs. 175-195
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