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Abstract
The landscape concept plays a growing role in anthropology and archeology, especially for discussions of “heritage landscapes.” Landscape has long been a central theme in geography, but with democratized Geographic Information Systems (GIS), that theoretical legacy can be overlooked. Critical theory based on international examples shows that heritage landscape designation is socio-politically charged, with indigenous voices often drowned out by those of experts representing governments, international agencies, and industry. Study of North American archeological bison-kill sites as landscapes long predates “formally named landscape archeology”, but their protection and interpretation remain challenging. Involvement of indigenous people in heritage landscape preservation is inadequate and must be strengthened.
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MICHAEL C. WILSON is an English-born Canadian archaeologist, earth scientist, and consultant with BA and PhD in Archaeology (University of Calgary) and MA in Anthropology (University of Wyoming). He has published research in geoarchaeology, ethnoarchaeology, stratigraphy, vertebrate paleontology, and geoheritage; based on fieldwork in North America, Cameroon, and China. After four decades of university and college teaching, he is Faculty Emeritus (and Past Chair) of the Department of Earth & Environmental Sciences at Douglas College and Adjunct Professor of Archaeology at Simon Fraser University. In 2009 he co-received the Washington State Historic Preservation Officer’s Award for Special Achievement.