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Historical Cultural Landscapes

4th Symposium of the AÖZA in Albersdorf

In co-operation with the Archaeological State Office Schleswig (Archaeologisches Landesamt Schleswig), the Research and Technology Centre Westcoast of Kiel University and the Museum for Prehistory at Dithmarschen, the Archaeological and Ecological Centre Albersdorf (AÖZA) hosted its 4th scientific symposium on Thursday February 28th 2002 in the community centre Albersdorf. The theme of this years´ event was "Historical Cultural Landscapes - Possibilities for Description, status Assessment and future Protection".

Since the middle of 1997, the AÖZA project is aiming at reconstructing a 5000 year-old Stone Age cultural landscape. This involves describing and taking inventory of elements and traces from the historic cultural landscape in the southern Dithmarscher Geest and finding ways of promoting these assets for sustainable tourism. Besides work designated at public awareness and education, a main subject of discussion was the standardisation of methods for recording cultural landscapes, to ensure data to be comparable beyond the regional scale and thus serve as a valuable tool for landscape conservation.

The AÖZA project is one of twelve participants/partners who are co-operating in the project "Pathways to Cultural Landscapes" (www.pcl-eu.de), which is being funded by the EU under the "Cultures 2000" program.

The aim of the symposium was to discuss modern ways of recording cultural landscapes and describing their present threat status. Consequences for conserving and sustainable use of cultural landscapes were recognised, discussed and developed further.

The symposium was financially supported through the State Ministry for the Environment and Nature Schleswig-Holstein (Landesamt für Natur und Umwelt des Landes Schleswig-Holstein) within the Agenda 21 program for development of integrated conservation strategies.

The event was part of the Federal Environment Ministry (Bundesumweltministerium) campaign "Life requires Diversity - Leben braucht Vielfalt".

A publication to summarise the results of the symposium is being compiled.

 

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