Cultural landscapes are defined as ‘‘patterns that cultures imprint on
the land’’ (Domosh 2004:3081), or ‘‘the successive alteration over time
of the material habitat of a sedentary human society’’ (Conzen
2004:3086). The term is widely used in cultural geography (Salter
1971), and in landscape planning, particularly in Europe (Birks, Birks,
Kaland and Moe 1989; Vos and Meekes 1999). It is also used extensively