ABSTRACT
A landscape is both the framework for human action and a creation of human action. People act in a landscape that already exists and thereby build on previous assumptions and ideas about that landscape. Some of these existing ideas are linked to large-scale geographical or topographical features, such as rivers, lakes and mountains. These are the ever-present features to which everyone in a region must relate, and which are part and parcel of the common knowledge and general experience of that landscape. Such features are usually given names and thereby included in the mental landscape of the people.
