The commission aims to build an understanding of long-term processes of human adaptation to changing environmental and anthropogenic circumstances. It provides critical perspectives and key insights that contribute to multiple disciplines, such as history, geography, and engineering, which are integral to coping with current global challenges.
The commission also studies the impact of inherited practices and social organization on the landscape and promotes new techniques such as GIS, remote sensing, and 3D tools. It contributes to global challenges such as resilience in landscape management, sustainable development and urbanism.
Landscape archaeology offers critical perspectives and approaches to understand long-term processes and practices of how humans have transformed their physical surroundings to adapt to changing environmental and anthropogenic circumstances. Through investigations of where and why humans settled, food production, resource availability, urban development, or responses to natural disasters, archaeologists acquire data and have key insights that contribute to multiple disciplines, such as history, geography, engineering, that are integral to coping with current global challenges.
Its aims are the following:
- to address the concepts of landscape archaeology
- to assess the impact of inherited practices and social organization on the landscape
- to share experience and to promote new techniques in archeogeography: GIS, remote sensing, 3D tools for various analyses including morphological, computational, and visual
- contributions of archeogeography to global challenges: resilience in landscape management, sustainable development, urbanism, etc.
