Chapter 2 provides an overview of three landscape classification systems used in this book, i.e. cultural historical, topographic, and archaeologically-based classifications. To study the dynamic relationship between the physical and cultural landscape, I juxtapose these three landscape classifications integral to the wending narrative--each offers different sets of spatial representations that only partially overlap, and their constellations shift over time. Each scheme involves value-laden choices, embedded in political processes. The superimposition of these classification schemes helps to uncover the dynamic shifts in cultural concepts, categories, and techniques that crosscut seemingly natural boundaries.