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Historic Landscape Characterization – Let’s Do That!

Archaeology has always been a spatial discipline even though it was not always aware of the fact. However, the so called spatial turn has hit social sciences really hard across the disciplinary board. Archaeology, as usual, may have come late in the game but it did come nevertheless. Another thing archaeology has always been about is heritage. That concept too became a highly debated issue, this time within the general confines of the linguistic turn. All this spinning and turning has raised a rather crucial issue: how can archaeology contribute to valorization and consequently protection of landscape (another highly debated concept). The awareness that landscape is a finite resource and that it has to be engaged with great caution is even codified in various legislation on national and international level. Historic Landscape Characterization (HLC) was developed as a direct response to these issues and trends and it is high time for Croatian archaeology to catch that train. Our aim is to discuss some theoretical and practical issues regarding the notions of historicity, landscape, landscape protection and heritage. Finally, HLC as a formalized framework for identifying historic landscape formations will be discussed in the context of applying the method to a specific relief – the Dinaric Karst.

Historic Landscape Characterisation ; Heritage ; Archaeology ; Spatial planning

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