Today we’re looking at the second of our short-courses which start in January 2024.
Historic Landscapes is open to anyone in Orkney and demonstrates the complexity of landscape using case studies from across the British Isles. Students will acquire a historical perspective on the landscape, the people who have inhabited it, and those who continue to do so.
Students will not only study how landscapes have changed over time but also investigate a specific landscape in detail and learn how to conduct a desk-based assessment on an area of their choice – a key employment skill in archaeology.
The course also addresses the practicalities of how goods, people and ideas moved across landscapes, the constraints on those movements imposed by available technology, and the efforts made to overcome those.
With other themes to be explored, including politics, maritime heritage and mythology, the student will develop a clearer vision of present-day problems and ongoing trends and will be set thinking about concepts of “history”, “inheritance” and “heritage” – a difficult and morally imperative topic that runs as a theme through the course.
Contact Dr Scott Timpany for more info (scott.timpany@uhi.ac.uk).
