Cultural Landscapes of North-east Scotland: Collaborative Research in History and Archaeology

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Colin Shepherd

Cultural Landscapes of North-east Scotland

Collaborative Research in History and Archaeology

Colin Shepherd

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English

Casemate Publishers
15 February 2025

Museums & museology; Archaeological theory; Archaeology by period & region; Landscape archaeology; Conservation of buildings & building materials

The authors explore multifaceted aspects of the competing cultural landscapes that comprise the northeast of Scotland. This interdisciplinary collection uses a deep temporal perspective at a range of scales, from microlandscape studies to largescale geological and archaeological environments. It presents collaborative research carried out by a local conservation group, the Bailies of Bennachie, and the University of Aberdeen across a twelveyear period the 'Bennachie Landscapes Project'. Far from being a cultural backwater, the book shows how key physical and social processes have interacted in the landscape of northeast Scotland since prehistory. Authors present new understandings of glacial geology, Mesolithic settlements, Roman, Viking and medieval settlements and environments, and recent crofting landscapes. Today's landscape is shown to be an extraordinarily rich resource for cultural and environmental history that is well worthy of continued protection and care. The research is itself used as a means of reaching into the wider community and engaging in a twoway process of education that connects the various participants. This book, therefore, explores ways of 'doing' environmental archaeology and cultural landscape studies that are not mainstream. All of the studies have a greater or lesser degree of community input. Some are communitydriven, others more academically oriented. But all add value to the others and help to create a better understanding of the cultural landscapes of northeast Scotland. The narrative flows from late glacial times, through prehistoric and historic periods forward, through the actions of the present engaging communities, seamlessly on and into the future.

AUTHOR: Colin Shepherd holds a PhD from the University of Exeter which examined the role of iconography in the development of early medieval kingship in Northwest Europe He is an honorary research fellow at the University of Aberdeen with particular interests in landscape research and the changing patterns of ideological thought and its effects upon socioeconomic change in the later middle ages.

60 colour, 90 b/w illustrations

Edited by: Colin Shepherd
Imprint: Casemate Publishers
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 241mm, Width: 170mm,
ISBN: 9798888571576
Pages: 272
Publication Date: 15 February 2025
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Colin Shepherd is an Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Aberdeen and has been involved with the Bennachie Landscapes Project since its inception. He completed his PhD at Exeter in 1997 and has written widely about the agrarian history and cultural landscape of north-east Scotland.