Whether in passing or on a daily basis, the spaces that we engage with hold many stories about the past. These stories may be beneath the ground, held in memory, or even hidden in plain sight. This session explores how people remember, rediscover, and recreate heritage landscapes, as well as the landscapes’ history and significance. In North America, when background research suggests that a location is culturally significant, archaeologists, especially those in CRM, may excavate to find, collect, and record artifacts and features that the landscape may have hidden beneath its surface. However, using a shovel and trowel to rediscover the heritage landscape simply scratches the surface of what can be learned. Archival studies and digital technologies offer additional ways to rediscover the community and individual histories held within heritage landscapes and recreate what the heritage landscape may have previously looked like. Additionally, the growing emphasis on descendant and community engagement through individuals’ memories or oral histories adds a human element that is essential for a more holistic understanding of the heritage landscapes. Interdisciplinary methods can help answer questions about heritage landscapes hidden in plain sight, such as repurposed or ruined buildings, or in places where excavation is highly intrusive, such as cemeteries.

Contributions that consider novel ways to retell, rediscover, and recreate heritage landscapes are welcome. Potential themes could include: How are different technologies and practices being used to rediscover and record heritage landscapes? In what ways are heritage landscapes narrated and remembered by communities? How are heritage landscapes being protected, incorporated, or recreated using various technologies?