The Future is Long‐term: past and current directions in environmental archaeology

Murphy, Charlene; Fuller, Dorian Q.

doi:10.1111/gena.12020

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“…These include plant and animal remains, soils, and bio-or geoarchaeological substances that require laboratory analysis. These substances are by no means limited to DNA, and include lipids, isotopes, and other residues that are interpreted by specialists in, for example, environmental archaeology, geoarchaeology, archaeozoology, and palaeoethnobotany (Clift et al 2011, Sandweiss andKelley 2012, Murphy andFuller 2017). Increasingly, archaeological sources provide a bridge between evidence in history and genetics.…”

Section: Uncovering Human Responses: Evidencementioning

confidence: 99%

The history of climate and society: a review of the influence of climate change on the human past

Degroot

Anchukaitis²,

Tierney³

et al. 2022

Environ. Res. Lett.

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Recent decades have seen the rapid expansion of scholarship that identifies societal responses to past climatic fluctuations. This fast-changing scholarship, which was recently synthesized as the History of Climate and Society (HCS), is today undertaken primary by archaeologists, economists, geneticists, geographers, and paleoclimatologists. This review is the first to consider how all scholars in all of these disciplines approach HCS studies. It begins by explaining how climatic changes and anomalies are reconstructed by paleoclimatologists and historical climatologists. It then provides a broad overview of major changes and anomalies over the 300,000-year history of Homo sapiens, explaining both the causes and environmental consequences of these fluctuations. Next, it introduces the sources, methods, and models employed by scholars in major HCS disciplines. It continues by describing the debates, themes, and findings of HCS scholarship in its major disciplines, and then outlines the potential of transdisciplinary, “consilient” approaches to the field. It concludes by explaining how HCS scholars increasingly attempt to identify relationships between past climatic and human histories that can inform policy development and activism around anthropogenic global warming.

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Section: Uncovering Human Responses: Evidencementioning

confidence: 99%

The history of climate and society: a review of the influence of climate change on the human past

Degroot

Anchukaitis²,

Tierney³

et al. 2022

Environ. Res. Lett.

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“…The early and mid-twentieth century saw the first of such explicitly interdisciplinary archaeological projects, incorporating archaeology and the natural sciences, such as excavations at Fayum (Egypt, 1920s), Mesolithic Star Carr (United Kingdom, 1950s) and Jarmo (Iraq, 1950s) (Butzer 2009;Murphy and Fuller 2017). While environmental archaeology and archaeological science more broadly have blossomed as subfields of archaeology in the latter part of the twentieth century, the emergence of processual archaeology, cultural ecology, systems theory, and other frameworks for conceptualizing the past led to the post-processual movement's rejection of simplistic or monocausal climate-based explanations for changes in human behaviour.…”

Section: Climate Change In Archaeologymentioning

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Archaeologies of Climate Change: Perceptions and Prospects

Britton

Hillerdal

2020

etudinuit

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“…As a late attempt to redress this balance, there has been a recent flurry of position statements calling for recognition of archaeology's relevance to Anthropocene discourse (e.g. Ellis et al 2016;Murphy and Fuller 2017), particularly its framing by earth scientists as a largely post-Industrial Revolution phenomenon (Crutzen and Stoermer 2000). Murphy and Fuller (2017, 8), in a historiographic overview of environmental archaeology's relevance to current concerns, see the current scholarly milieu as the latest of four phases of environmental archaeology, 'one in which it has a key role to play not just in holistic archaeological investigation but also in making archaeological results relevant to research on climate change, landscape ecology and conservation, human diet, and, more broadly Anthropocene studies'.…”

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“…Past:present:future adaptation to climate change and weather stress Climate-based models are increasingly prevalent in archaeological narratives of urban decline and 'collapse' (e.g. Dixit et al 2014), and their potential relevance for 'present and future environmental problems and solutions' (Murphy and Fuller 2017) feature prominently in such accounts. Climate change is also a major theme in recent accounts of agrarian (d'Alpoim Guedes, Guiyun and Bocinsky 2015), cultural (d'Alpoim Guedes et al 2016) and socio-ecological change (Boivin et al 2016).…”

Section: Archaeology Environmental Humanities and Anthropocene Studiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Archaeology, climate change and environmental ethics: diachronic perspectives on human:non-human:environment worldviews, activism and care

Shaw

2016

World Archaeology

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This paper calls for archaeological engagement with the ethical dimension of past:present:future global environmental discourse and Anthropocene studies. In contrast to the recent chronological focus of archaeology's engagement with Anthropocene studies, and its often rather generalised call for recognising the relevance of historically attested adaptive responses to climate change to current challenges, it highlights the need to examine the individual contributing and resulting factors of climate change and extreme environmental events. It advocates an approach that combines archaeology's traditional focus on the practical and material elements of disaster management, with one that explores historical epistemologies of human:non-human care and entanglement, and socio-religious and collective ideological movements as driving forces behind historically specific environmental ethics. In relation to the 'non-human' element of the human:non-human:environment configuration there is special emphasis not only on non-human animals, but also conceptualisations of divine, 'supra-human', and numinous entities and spheres such as gods, spirits, and sacred places which are essential for attaining fully syncretic perspectives on diachronic environmental ethics. A key argument is that recognition of the multi-directional dynamics of human: environment entanglement, drawing on developments within religious studies, the environmental and medical humanities, as well as environmental health discourse, is crutical for achieving more widespread engagement with environmental activism, and movement towards long term behavioural changes that ultimately reduce global suffering and increase environmental, economic and human wellbeing.

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The Future is Long‐term: past and current directions in environmental archaeology

Cited by 5 publications

References 12 publications

The history of climate and society: a review of the influence of climate change on the human past

The history of climate and society: a review of the influence of climate change on the human past

Archaeologies of Climate Change: Perceptions and Prospects

Archaeology, climate change and environmental ethics: diachronic perspectives on human:non-human:environment worldviews, activism and care

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