An Archaeologist Writes against the Anthropocene
Much of what archaeologists do is study how humans adapt to the environment. After Gordon Willey’s (1953) groundbreaking investigation into the entire history of occupation of a small valley in Peru, understanding how humans lived in and modified their environment became commonplace. Indeed, the “Ne...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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University of Minnesota Libraries Publishing
2019-08-01
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| Series: | Open Rivers |
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https://editions.lib.umn.edu/openrivers/article/against-the-anthropocene/
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| Summary: | Much of what archaeologists do is study how humans adapt to the environment. After Gordon Willey’s (1953) groundbreaking investigation into the entire history of occupation of a small valley in Peru, understanding how humans lived in and modified their environment became commonplace. Indeed, the “New Archeology” that took the American academy by storm in the 1960s and strove to make the discipline more scientific made human-environment interactions and the understanding of human-environmental relations one of its central goals... |
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| ISSN: | 2471-190X |