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Edited by Thegn N. Ladefoged and Michael W. Graves. Easter Island Foundation, Los Osos, CA, 2002. ISBN 1-880636-20-4 (paper). Pp. 1-274. USD26.
At a recent public lecture I attended a doyen of British landscape archaeology, who perhaps ought to remain nameless, stated that putting the word 'landscape' in the title of a book had become about as trendy as using the word 'Celtic' and related rather more to sales than substance; this point was apparently not well taken by an eminent professor of Celtic archaeology from a neighbouring university who was seated in the front row of the audience. One cannot help but agree there has been a proliferation of books with landscape in the title, and rather than being about sales figures, this might more be related to landscape being a 'usefully ambiguous concept' as previously elucidated in a special edition of this journal a decade or so ago (Gosden and Head 1994).
In regard to the volume under review here, and assuming this is a reflection of the genre, one can only conclude that landscape, and landscape archaeology in particular, has been drawn deeper into ambiguity over the last 10 years. This...
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