Human Exploitation of Aquatic Landscapes. Editorial

Abstract

Aquatic landscapes such as rivers, lakes, and seas played an important role in past human behaviour, affecting modes of subsistence, patterns of mobility, access to material resources, and technological choices and their developments. The interaction with aquatic landscapes was also influential in the establishment of economic and social structures and in the formation of communal identities. The aim of this special themed issue of Internet Archaeology is to contribute to a better understanding of different forms of human interaction with aquatic landscapes.

Keywords

• aquatic landscapes
• exploitation
• interaction
• environment
• social structures
• mobility
• subsistence
• technology
• communal identity