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CHARACTERIZING THE EVOLUTION OF VISUAL LANDSCAPES IN THE LATE PREHISTORY OF SOUTH‐WEST MORBIHAN (BRITTANY, FRANCE)
Author(s) -
LOPEZROMERO GONZALEZ DE LA ALEJA ELIAS
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
oxford journal of archaeology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.382
H-Index - 31
eISSN - 1468-0092
pISSN - 0262-5253
DOI - 10.1111/j.1468-0092.2008.00305.x
Subject(s) - prehistory , archaeology , mesolithic , bronze age , geography , context (archaeology) , landscape archaeology , settlement (finance) , history , landscape design , civil engineering , world wide web , computer science , engineering , payment
Summary. In the context of territorial analyses in archaeology, the visual attributes of sites play a key role in the definition of location strategies. This paper studies the Neolithic evidence from the south‐western Morbihan area in Brittany (France) from a visual point of view, integrating the previous Mesolithic and the later Bronze Age occupation of the region in order to understand the diachronic evolution of the visual settlement patterns. The role played by the sea seems to be significant throughout the entire occupation of the area, but differences in both intervisibility of sites and the extension of visual areas allow us to make particular observations regarding different cultural uses of the landscape through time.