The traditional landscapes of Israel, rich resources of information about particular areas, are rapidly disappearing. Soon there won’t be much left to study. Without understanding the larger landscape “sites,” towns, villages and farms are simply islands floating in an ocean of nothingness. Archaeologists don’t generally take much interest in landscape history. True, the conventional archaeological survey has been a focus since the 1940s, but archaeology in Israel still deals mostly with settlement types (tells and villages). And landscape archaeology is different from an archaeological survey. Indeed, inadequacies in survey results actually led to a resurgence of interest in landscape […]
