Art and the re-presentation of the past

This article considers conceptual links between producing installation art works in the present and interpreting prehistoric lifeworlds. We consider c onnections between the work of contemporary 'landscape', 'environmental' or 'ecological' artists and an on-going landscape archaeology project centred on Leskernick Hill, Bodmin Moor in the south-west of Britain. We argue tha t the production of are works in the present can be: a powerful means of in terpreting the past in the present. Both the practices of interpreting the past and producing art result in the production of something new that trans forms our understanding of place and space resulting in the creation of new meaning. Art and archaeology can act together dialectically to produce a n ovel conceptualization of the past and produce a means of relating to the p ast that is considerably more than the sum of its parts.