ABSTRACT
This chapter starts by showing how knowledge of the landscape is essential not just for finding resources but also as a crucial component of belief systems. It explores how hunter-gatherers alter the landscape through rock art, before considering the usefulness of ethnographic analogy for understanding prehistoric hunter-gatherer groups. The chapter explores some of the ways in which modern hunter-gatherers interact with the landscape. Because modern hunter-gatherers have an excellent broad knowledge of the landscape, they move knowingly through it. The ethnography of hunter-gatherer landscapes has played a crucial role in recent years and has been used as an inspiration for interpretive and phenomenological approaches to landscape. Ethnographic accounts also offer us inspiration for thinking differently about landscapes, but they should be explored in a contextually specific way. The chapter examines the alteration of landscape through rock art, which again has been documented among many modern hunter-gatherer groups.
