LANDSCAPE IDEOLOGIES Edited by THOMAS MEIER © BUDAPEST 2006Landscape in Prehistoric Archaeology: Comparing Western and Rastern Paradigms OLENA V. SMYNTYNA Comparative analysis of landscape comprehension in “Wester” and “bastem” (ie. Soviet and post-Soviet) science reveals at lcest three points, which merk substantial differences in landscape ideology: field af stuelyane acaclemicalliliation of the discipline concucting diachronic lanitseape studies: controversies of and post-modem seienee; definition of human plece in prehistoric landscape. Sovicl researchers studying palagolandseapes pay primary attention to physical geographic problems, such #8 ancient characteristic Land description of their chronological and spatial sequence researchers concentrate mainly on the meaning of landscape conceptualisation in the cultures of ancient collectives. It onds up in a wide diversity of landscape comprehension beginning with its intecpretationasa background (stage), on which man aets, up to the understanding, of landscape as a crucial Factor determining, basic features of ancient population fivelihoeul systems ancl ethnic exlture ‘spe components, ete. Non-Marxist The dispersion of postmodei methodology in palacolandseape studies connected with a phenomenological approsch becomes obvious itt the notion of landscape interanimation and is illustrated by post-structural metheds and by an “artistic approach. For must af the meutioned approaches ta. the comprehension of palaeolandscanes (except far pasleSavicl physicaleeographic studies), uncertainty of spatial and chronological fameworks is typical. That is, why dle term “landscape” is often applied to tecritorial units characterised by fundamentally different taxonornic and substantial features Introduction Landscape is an important notion in the scope of archaeological seience during all Uimvofits exisience, This is especially rue for teprehistoric branch ofarchaeolog which was bom on the margin of prehistory and cultural anthropology. on the ‘one side, and geology und pulieontology, on the olber. In spite of « more than one hundred years’ history of exploration in pretustoric archaeology, the notion of landscape remains one of the most unequivocal in contemporary scientific vocabulary. 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