Dear All,
Please find details of our session for the 'Deer and People – Past, Present and Future' conference held at the University of Lincoln, 8-11 September 2011 below. We invite the submission of proposals for papers and posters via the conference website: http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/archaeology/research/conferences/deer-people.aspx#Sessionandpapersubmission
Deer, people and landscape.
Frazer BOWEN (Department of Archaeology, University of Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, UK, [log in to unmask])
Martyn ALLEN (Department of Archaeology, University of Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, UK, [log in to unmask])
Deer are prime architects of the landscape and environment, with the capacity to fundamentally alter and shape their surroundings. These effects may be viewed in positive or negative terms but, for millennia, humans have played a role in manipulating the landscape via their association with deer – introducing them to some areas or excluding them from others. The results of these associations can be so dramatic as to leave lasting traces on the landscape, for instance in the case of medieval forests and deer parks – iconic features that highlight both the cultural and ecological importance of deer in human societies.
Deer are important to human perceptions of landscape not simply because of the physical changes that they can produce – they can influence the way in which people (of different social and cultural group) experience, move through and think about landscape. This is clear from artistic representations of deer and landscape, which carry far greater significance than simply images of physical geography and ecosystems. This session welcomes papers that seek to explore, from a variety of perspectives, the multifarious ways in which deer and people have shaped the world around us today and in the past.
To submit a paper/poster proposal please download a form and submit via the website, sending an additional copy to the session organiser/s
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