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Abstract
This article reviews the achievements of Jacquetta Hawkes, (1910–1996). On separate occasions, mentions of her were made in conversations with two of the most prominent British landscape historians. One dismissed her without hesitation as having very little relevance to the development of our interests. The other murmured 'Ah, yes!' and nodded sagely. Contradictions arise frequently in any evaluation of the woman and her work. I will predict, however, that as we acquire an ability to look beyond technological gizmos and rediscover the conceptual and philosophical bases of landscape study then Jacquetta Hawkes, who was the most influential early opponent of excessive scientism, will be recognised as a Founder of considerable influence. Though an intellectual of daunting achievements, she gave the study of landscape its heart and arguably she succeeded better than any others have in describing the ecological and reciprocal nature of the relationship between communities and their settings. With its emphasis on the interaction between humans and their environment, her approach to archaeology had a very strong geographical slant as well as its more conventional anthropological one.