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József Laszlovszky and Péter Szabó
Landscape Archaeology and the Emerging New Landscape of the Digital World

Landscape archaeology has made a spectacular development worldwide during the last two decades. From a relatively limited methodological approach within archaeology it has quickly developed to an independent field as well as a crucial framework of interpretation for all periods of archeology. Significant elements of this development process can be attributed to the growing importance of new data-collection techniques and to new analytical schemes. Remote sensing technologies, GIS and digital landscape modeling have transformed landscape archeology from the point of view of methods and approaches. At the same time, historical concepts connected to past landscapes (landscapes of memory, landscapes of power, sacred landscapes, monastic landscapes, etc.) have started to dominate the interpretation and evaluation of landscape archaeological publications. The papers of this session will present and discuss new methodological approaches in this field, while the round-table discussion will explore the theoretical and practical issues deriving from recent development trends in the frameworks of interpretations. The dichotomy between the increasingly technical issues connected to data collection and the traditional historical interpretations of landscapes will be one of the key problems of related discussions.

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