Spatial and Landscape Archaeology

The course contains a historical overview of spatial and landscape aspects of archaeological interpretations according to various national schools: Anthropogeographical archaeology (Altlandschaftsforschungen, Siedlungsarchaölogie, Geographic Archaeology), a socio-ecological approach of new archeology, Spatial archeology (D. Clarke), American settlement archaeology, the historical approach of W. Hoskins, modern post-processual theories of landscape archeology. The methodological work is meant to acquaint students with basic concepts and methods of location analysis, analyses of distribution and quantitative (computer-based) methods of spatial data corpora analysis, along with their visualization.