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Editorial Richard Muir Recently, I was thinking about the important landmarks associated with the development of landscape history. It would be easy to assume that progress had resulted from creative bursts of energy deriving from the work of the great participants in the field – the names of O. G. S. Crawford, Carl Sauer, William Hoskins and Maurice Beresford spring readily to mind. The contributions by such people are immense, but then I realised (or so it seems to me) that the ‘risers’ on the staircase of progress seem actually to be of a technological rather than of a human character. Air photography, Carbon-14 dating, dendro- chronology and pollen analysis all seem to have opened-up new areas and opportunities for landscape study and to have become essential analytical tools. Then I began to wonder whether the significance and potential of these technologies were recognised at the times of their introduction? This question could be approached in an oblique fashion by asking: ‘What is the future- shaping technology of today so far as the study of landscape is concerned?’ (One will find it difficult to convince me that it is GIS. I do not doubt that GIS is wonderful for presentations http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Landscapes Taylor & Francis

Editorial

Muir, Richard
Landscapes , Volume 2 (1): 3 – Apr 1, 2001
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Taylor & Francis
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© 2001 Maney
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2040-8153
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10.1179/lan.2001.2.1.1
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Richard Muir Recently, I was thinking about the important landmarks associated with the development of landscape history. It would be easy to assume that progress had resulted from creative bursts of energy deriving from the work of the great participants in the field – the names of O. G. S. Crawford, Carl Sauer, William Hoskins and Maurice Beresford spring readily to mind. The contributions by such people are immense, but then I realised (or so it seems to me) that the ‘risers’ on the staircase of progress seem actually to be of a technological rather than of a human character. Air photography, Carbon-14 dating, dendro- chronology and pollen analysis all seem to have opened-up new areas and opportunities for landscape study and to have become essential analytical tools. Then I began to wonder whether the significance and potential of these technologies were recognised at the times of their introduction? This question could be approached in an oblique fashion by asking: ‘What is the future- shaping technology of today so far as the study of landscape is concerned?’ (One will find it difficult to convince me that it is GIS. I do not doubt that GIS is wonderful for presentations

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Published: Apr 1, 2001

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