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Revisiting the “Reading Landscape Backwards” Approach: Advantages, Disadvantages, and Use of the Retrogressive Method Cover

Revisiting the “Reading Landscape Backwards” Approach: Advantages, Disadvantages, and Use of the Retrogressive Method

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Open Access
|Oct 2018

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Figure 1

Notional graphs illustrating a particular landscape and its features between AD 1300 and present time. The thick line shows a cross-section in time of the studied landscape. Illustration by author, partly inspired by illustrations in Leontief (1963) and Vervloet (1984).

Figure 2

Author’s interpretation of Baker’s use of the retrogressive method in his three papers (1963, 1964, 1966).

Figure 3

a) Fillstaböle marked as 71 on a printed map from 1967 (scale 1:10 000), National Archive of Sweden, map number 19E1h. b) The same area depicted on an area measurement map made by surveyor Gabriel Esping in 1745 (scale 1:4000) County Cadastral Authority Archives, map number 23-frj-10. ©Lantmäteriet Gävle 2014 (publication permit ref. I2014/00579).

Figure 4

a) Map of the southern part of Frösö parish made by surveyor Albrekt Emanuel Behm in 1854 (scale 1:10 000), mostly showing dry meadows (coloured in green). Fields (coloured yellow) and buildings only appears to the west in Fillsta hamlet and to the east in Knytta hamlet. National Archive of Sweden, map number Y12-1:4. b) Geometric map of Knytta hamlet made by surveyor Matthias Busch in 1698 (scale 1:4000), National Archive of Sweden, map number Y12-10:1.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.16993/rl.47 | Journal eISSN: 2002-0104
Language: English
Page range: 4 - 4
Submitted on: Feb 2, 2018
Accepted on: Sep 13, 2018
Published on: Oct 3, 2018
Published by: Stockholm University Press
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services

© 2018 Hans Antonson, published by Stockholm University Press
This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.