Landscape archaeology: The legacy of W.G. Hoskins.
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Example archaeology dissertation topic 8:
Landscape archaeology: The legacy of W.G. Hoskins.
In 1955 Hoskins published his seminal work The Making of the English Landscape which recognised the importance of field archaeology to the production of landscape history. Hoskins would subsequently found the Leicester School. This dissertation surveys the career of Hoskins not as a local historian but as a pioneer of historic landscape archaeology and in so doing evaluates the extent to which the different thematic approaches adopted in landscape archaeology result in it being a distinct discipline in its own right.
Suggested initial topic reading:
- Chapman, H. (2006). Landscape archaeology and GIS. Stroud: The History Press.
- Hoskins, W.G. (1955). The making of the English landscape. Leicester: Leicester University Press.
- Wagstaff, J.M. (ed.) (1987). Landscape and culture: Geographical and archaeological perspectives. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
