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Volume 32 / Number 2

1990

Special Edition: Gardens and Landscapes of the Past

On The Cover: "The Palaces of Nimroud Restored" shows an imaginative architectural reconstruction based on Austen Henry Layard's archaeological discoveries near Nineveh (and modern Mosul), from A. H. Layard, Nineveh and Its Remains, 2 vols. (New York: George P. Putnam, 1849, 1853), 1:29, 81; 2: Pl. 1 (detail).

Vol. 32 / No. 2

By: Steve Ford, Mark Bowden, Vince Gaffney and Geoff Mees

Dating Ancient Field Systems on the Berkshire Downs in England

Undisturbed by modern plow­ing, the remains of ancient fields are still common on the chalk downlands of southern England. Where […]

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Vol. 32 / No. 2

By: Kathryn L. Gleason

Gardens and Landscapes of the Past: Introduction

In the past few years, the results of over two decades of research in the new discipline of landscape archae­ology […]

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Vol. 32 / No. 2

About the Authors

Kathryn L. Gleason is Assistant Professor of Landscape Architecture at the Graduate School of Fine Arts, University of Pennsylvania. She holds […]

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Vol. 32 / No. 2

By: Lydia Mihelic Pulsipher

They Have Saturdays and Sundays to Feed Themselves: Slave Gardens in the Caribbean

They have Saturdays in the Afternoon, and Sundays, with Christmas Holidays, Easter call’d little or Piganinny Christmas, and some other […]

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Vol. 32 / No. 2

By: Kathryn L. Gleason

The Garden Portico of Pompey the Great: An Ancient Public Park Preserved in the Layers of Rome

Rome is thought of as a city for walking. In the coolness of a summer evening, Romans and visitors alike […]

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Vol. 32 / No. 2

By: Naomi F. Miller

Palm Trees in Paradise: Victorian Views of the Ancient Near East Landscape

The significant origin stories of Western civilization take place in the ancient Near East, a fact that provoked interest in […]

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Vol. 32 / No. 2

By: Anne Yentsch

Historic Morven: The Archaeological Reappearance of an 18th Century Princeton Garden

The Family, the House, the Gardens Ink the late 17th century the first Stockton family moved to Princeton, and in […]

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Vol. 32 / No. 2

By: Lynn Grant

Southwest Pottery Artifacts on Tour: A Report from Conservation

Southwest Pottery Artifacts on Tour: A Report from Conservation The University Museum has had an active program of loaning artifacts […]

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Vol. 32 / No. 2

By: Gail E. Wagner

Charcoal, Isotopes, and Shell Hoes: Reconstructing a 12th Century Native American Garden

Corn-based agriculture was established among the Fort Ancient Indians in the cen­tral Ohio River valley by the 11th century A.D. […]

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