more closely onto the establishedempirical strengths of landscape study and has more contemporaryrelevance.The first historical assessment of a critical period inarchaeologyTakes as its focus the so-called English landscape tradition --the ideological underpinnings of which come from EnglishRomanticism, via the influence of the “father of landscapehistory”: W. G. HoskinsArgues that the strengths and weaknesses of landscapearchaeology can be traced back to the underlying theoreticaldiscontents of RomanticismOffers an alternative agenda for landscape archaeology thatmaps more closely onto the established empirical strengths oflandscape study and has more contemporary relevance

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