Cultural Landscapes (Other Keyword)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Sarah L. Surface-Evans. E. Duane Quates.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Critical Issues in Contemporary Archaeology & Historical Archaeology: Limits, Opportunities, Challenges", at the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In this paper, we discuss trees as contemporary landscape features that transcend time. Trees may gain historic significance through a variety of cultural mechanisms. For example, trees may be culturally modified as part of an altered landscape of resource procurement,...