Landscapes: Archaeological, Historic, and Ethnographic Perspectives from the New World / Paisajes: Perspectivas arqueológicas, históricas y etnográficas desde el Nuevo Mundo

This collection contains the abstracts of the papers presented in the session entitled "Landscapes: Archaeological, Historic, and Ethnographic Perspectives from the New World / Paisajes: Perspectivas arqueológicas, históricas y etnográficas desde el Nuevo Mundo" at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

The study of landscapes in archaeology has a long and venerable history. In the New World, Willey, Sanders, Kidder, Haury, Parsons, Piña Chan, Lorenzo, and Armillas, among others, began pioneering research that reoriented archaeology toward a regional perspective concerned with settlement patterns, population, and the environment, starting around the middle of the last century. This research agenda further evolved in the 1990s by incorporating geographical and historic perspectives drawn from Carl Sauer and Fernand Braudel and has thrived, making vital contributions. However, disciplinary isolation has partially impeded further development of archaeological research and its capacity to articulate with sister disciplines concerned with landscapes (e.g., historic studies, agroecology, common pool resource management, and sustainability, etc.). Also, engagement with paleoecology has tended to be sporadic, nonsystemic, and post hoc. Thus, this symposium seeks to bring together a group of scholars from within and outside of archaeology to address these lacunae with the goal of increasing dialogue with sister disciplines.