Landscape in the Longue Durée

An archaeology of dementia

“…Where previously it has been difficult to consider and assign subjective meaning to natural artefacts due to descriptive biases around human agency, deliberate modification and the emphasis on technological features, new materialisms opens up how we think differently with unmodified matter. Particularly relevant for Gorman's assemblages is the work of Tilley (2017), who highlights the neglect of the natural properties of unmodified pebbles within archaeology. His study examines prehistoric cairns and pebble platforms in the Pebblebed heathlands of East Devon, England.…”