Archaeology Seminar

Concepts and tools for analysing the resilience of landscape forms: the contribution of the French school of archaeogeography.

The French school of archaeogeography has been developed since the 1990s through contact with development-led archaeology. It combines different traditions of morphological analysis, photo-interpretation and landscape archaeology, drawing on the disciplines of history, archaeology and geography. Overcoming the nature-culture divide in landscape analysis, archaeogeography is based on a systems approach and recognition of the hybrid nature of landscape forms.

This seminar will present the concepts and methods developed in archaeogeography in recent years. In particular, these have resulted in a more quantitative approach to morphological analysis. Examples will be gathered mainly from French rural and urban fields.

Speaker: Sandrine Robert, Director of Studies at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (Paris – Aubervilliers, France).

Tea, coffee, and biscuits provided from 5.00pm.

No booking required

Open to: Members of Kellogg College, the public,