Abstract

LANDSCAPES 2020, VOL. 21, NO. 1, 1 https://doi.org/10.1080/14662035.2020.1920732 After the thematic issue on castles and their landscapes in issue 20.2, we return in the present issue to our more normal pattern of a miscellany of subjects. In this case, the issue is perhaps even more diverse than usual, from the Danish Iron Age in Denmark to palaeolithic and med- ieval landscapes in Israel, and from the psychological effects on landscape perception and memory of the disappearance of coal mining in Scotland, to ways to understand the archae- ological / ecological interface in Swedish forests landscape over the longue durée. Those of our readers who use the printed as opposed to the online version of each issue are more likely to have noticed that, over the past year or two, we have fallen behind the dates proclaimed on the cover. We are catching up rapidly, however, and we intend that the 2022 issues will actually be published in 2022. To achieve this we have been grateful to all the researchers and colleagues who have provided us with submissions, in particular in the past 15 months when the world-wide pandemic, hopefully on retreat in at least some countries, has made life