Sites and the Mental Landscape

Stone Age in the Kullen district, North-western Scania, Sweden

Abstract

The approach of the mental landscape enlarges the perspectives for interpreting sites and settlements. In the Kullen district sites and settlements is theorized by breaking down the dichotomies of Mesolithic and Neolithic and the archaeologically constructed borderline between the periods. The terminology and the interpretation of site and settlement need to be extended by including the materiality of landscape, and the long-term utilization independent of presumed dominating subsistence strategies.