THE LANDSCAPE CONCEPT IN ARCHAEOLOGY - THE PERSISTENT PLACES

Abstract

The landscape study in archaeology presumes the use of differentiated categories in different knowledge areas, having as central focus the comprehension of the existing relations between humans and yours environments. This is signify to discuss of the operation shapes of the relations between culture and environment in a diachronic scale under a holistic and systemic perspective, in other words, the observation and explanation of the phenomena or events of one all, coordinated to each other, so that they act like an organized structure. This paper, of theoretical study, it has as preoccupation presents the different paradigms in which the landscape concept has been used in archaeology, of the same way it has been enabling the enlargement of archaeological site notion. It is known that humans walking through the environments in which they live, in which perceptions and concepts are established by means of the cognitive processes and, consequently, cultural processes. In this case the landscape is comprehended as a social construction, having like theoretical base the concepts of établissement (settlement) by Marcel Mauss; Place by Lewis R. Binford and Persistent Places by Sarah Schalanger.