A Landscape Becoming: Undercutting Discourse Materialized

in Modern LandscapesNicolas R. LaracuenteUniversity of Kentucky

Twitter: @archaeologist

Adapted from www.kentucky.gov and www.visitlex.com

Hamburg Place

Courtesy of maps.google.com and maps.bing.com

Why is this happening?

Landscape Theory

• Sauer: Constructed from Natural Landscape

• Cosgrove and Daniels: A Material / Immaterial Cultural Image

• Schein: Discourse Materialized, Always Becoming

Excluded Past(from Mackenzie and Stone 1990:2)

• Overcrowded Class Curriculums• Ignorance• Exclusion of “Trivial” Knowledge• Political Reasons

Courtesy of Google Earth

History’s Elite

Courtesy of www.uky.edu and www.americaslibrary.gov

Landscape Theory

• Ingold: Dwelling Perspective - Perceiving Landscape is an Act of Remembrance

Outreach

“Fifth Third Bank Site”

Twitter

Potential ExposureTwitter User Followers Location

Archaeologist 482 Lexington, Kentucky

GLEthnohistory 365 Alma, Michigan

PaulWren 183 Scottsdale, Arizona

Anthrogirly 73 Montana

Brockter 753 Williamsburg, Virginia

Mooregroup 569 Galway, Ireland

Cortsims 477 Port Falls, Idaho

UWMadScience 591 Madison, Wisconsin

TOTAL 3011

Bibliography• Daniels, Stephen and Dennis E. Cosgrove (editors) 1988 Iconography and Landscape. In The

iconography of landscape: essays on the symbolic representation, design and use of past environments. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press pp. 1-10.

• Ingold, Tim 1993 The Temporality of the Landscape. World Archaeology 25(2):152-173. • Kehoe, A. B. 1990 'In fourteen hundred and ninety-two, Columbus sailed...': the primacy of the

national myth in US schools. In The Excluded Past: Archaeology in Education, edited by P. Stone and R. Mackenzie, pp. 201-216. Unwin Hyman, London.

• Mackenzie, R. and P. Stone 1990 Introduction: the concept of the excluded past. In The Excluded Past: Archaeology in Education, edited by P. Stone and R. Mackenzie, pp. 1-14. Unwin Hyman, London.

• Sauer, Carl 1925 The Morphology of Landscape. University of California Publications in Geography 2(2):19-53).

• Shackel, P. A. 2004 "Working with Communities": Heritage Development and Applied Archaeology . In Places in Mind, edited by P. A. Shackel and E. J. Chambers.

• Schein, Richard 1997 The Place of Landscape: A Conceptual Framework for Interpreting an American Scene. Annals of the Association of American Geographers 87(4):660-680.