NEST 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Landscape Archaeology
27 Feb 2019
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Conservation: the set of measures/actions aimed at safeguarding cultural heritage while ensuring its accessibility to present & future generations. Avoids & minimizes future deterioration and loss. Indirect actions - don"t interfere with materials/structures of the items or modify appearance. Supposed to stop current damaging processes or reinforce structure. Only carried out when items are deteriorating so quickly that they"d be lost in a short amount of time. Only carried out when an item has lost signi cance or function due to deterioration. Note that pottery doesn"t really break down, other than salinization. Considers ancient sites" relation to their natural surroundings and to the human-made landscape. Basically considers the context of the region. ie. roads tell us how settlements communicate with each other. Part of braidwood"s archaeological team at jarmo, iraq in 1950. Very well known for 3 publications, one of which is heartland of cities". Most of his work involved survey archaeology. ie. using maps and aerial photographs.
