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Available Open Access under CC-BY-NC licence. How can Archaeology
help us understand our contemporary world? This ground-breaking
book reflects on material, visual and digital culture from the
Calais "Jungle" - the informal camp where, before its destruction
in October 2016, more than 10,000 displaced people lived. LANDE:
The Calais 'Jungle' and Beyond reassesses how we understand
'crisis', activism, and the infrastructure of national borders in
Refugee and Forced Migration Studies, foregrounding the politics of
environments, time, and the ongoing legacies of empire. Introducing
a major collaborative exhibit at Oxford's Pitt Rivers Museum, the
book argues that an anthropological focus on duration, impermanence
and traces of the most recent past can recentre the ongoing human
experiences of displacement in Europe today.
Long before the Norman Conquest of 1066, England saw periods of
profound change that transformed the landscape and the identities
of those who occupied it. The Bronze and Iron Ages saw the
introduction of now-familiar animals and plants, such as sheep,
horses, wheat, and oats, as well as new forms of production and
exchange and the first laying out of substantial fields and
trackways, which continued into the earliest Romano-British
landscapes. The Anglo-Saxon period saw the creation of new villages
based around church and manor, with ridge and furrow cultivation
strips still preserved today. The basis for this volume is The
English Landscapes and Identities project, which synthesised all
the major available sources of information on English archaeology
to examine this crucial period of landscape history from the middle
Bronze Age (c. 1500 BC) to the Domesday survey (c. 1086 AD). It
looks at the nature of archaeological work undertaken across
England to assess its strengths and weaknesses when writing
long-term histories. Among many other topics it examines the
interaction of ecology and human action in shaping the landscape;
issues of movement across the landscape in various periods;
changing forms of food over time; an understanding of spatial
scale; and questions of enclosing and naming the landscape,
culminating in a discussion of the links between landscape and
identity. The result is the first comprehensive account of the
English landscape over a crucial 2500-year period. It also offers a
celebration of many centuries of archaeological work, especially
the intensive large-scale investigations that have taken place
since the 1960s and transformed our understanding of England's
past.
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