Landscape traces and palimpsests in industrial cultural and historical heritage
Abstract
The article examines theoretical and applied issues of the landscape science approach to the study and preservation of industrial cultural and historical heritage.
Purpose. To justify and illustrate with specific examples the provisions about industrial traces and palimpsests in relation to post-technogenic landscapes, as well as to show the possibilities of applying the developed concept in the practice of research and preservation of industrial heritage.
Methods. 1. Comparative-historical, paleolandscape studies. 2. Industrial-archaeological. 3. Historical-hermeneu-tic. 4. Remote (using Internet resources). 5. Sociological-field.
Results. Landscape traces are newly formed and transformed elements, components and images of the landscape (in the landscape), which were caused by human activity, which actually stopped or was greatly reduced. Traces accumulated layer by layer in the landscape form a landscape palimpsest (landscape as a palimpsest). Landscape traces and palimpsests are important for the landscape to acquire cultural qualities. They are the subject of protection and preservation, objects of cultural and historical heritage. If the human activity that creates traces and palimpsests is a production activity and causes the formation of a post-technogenic landscape, then we should talk about industrial landscape traces and palimpsests. They are objects of industrial heritage and are also subject to protection and preservation. The simplest monument protection category that can be applied to them is "monument of science and technology" (this concept is regulated by law). Industrial traces and palimpsests consist of material and ideal objects and phenomena related to production activities and the daily life of working people, prominent figures of scientists, engineers, and technologists. The ideal component of the industrial footprint in the industrial post-technogenic landscape is represented by workers' slang, folklore, music, legends, superstitions, traditions, toponyms, surnames, etc. The article presents experience and outlines problems related to the identification, study, and preservation of industrial traces and palimpsests in post-technogenic landscapes that were formed by sugar beet production (Vinnytsia, Zhytomyr, Kyiv, Cherkasy, Chernihiv regions), glassmaking (Transcarpathia), uranium mining (Kryvbas). All of them are the industrial heritage of our Motherland and require accounting, research, and protection.
Scientific novelty. Theoretical developments in the field related to the doctrine of landscape traces and palimpsests in general and regarding industrial post-technogenic geosystems in particular are brought into a coherent system. Unique examples of landscape traces and palimpsests in the sugar factory, glass-making and uranium-mining heritage of Ukraine are presented.
Practical significance. The developments of the article can be effectively used in the identification, study and protection of industrial cultural and historical heritage.
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