In recent decades, archaeologists have come to realise that landscapes should no Longer be seen as static settings in which the actions of our ancestors took place, or as the backdrop to such actions, but instead should be engaged with as active places within complex currents of time, space and movement. Many authors define landscape as a palimpsest of memories, a group of many layers that accumulate over time, a document, a living archive (Bianc-Pamard and Raison 1986; Scazzosi 2004)·
