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🌍 Workshop Announcement: Linguistic Prehistory and Ecology in the Northern Pacific Rim 🌍 I’m excited to share that I’ll be attending the Workshop on Linguistic Prehistory and Ecology in the Northern Pacific Rim hosted by the Language and the Anthropocene Research Group. The event will take place at Volkshaus Jena, Germany, from August 28-29, 2024. Workshop Highlights: Exploring the Anthropocene: Understanding how human activities have shaped the Earth's climate and ecosystems over the past 10,000 years. Linguistics and Environmental Knowledge: Investigating how language serves as an archive of ecological knowledge, particularly in the Northern Pacific Rim region. Interdisciplinary Case Studies: Integrating insights from linguistics, anthropology, archaeobotany, ecology, and ethnobiology to reveal historical human-environment interactions. Key Topics: Plant use and animal husbandry Hunting and aquatic resource exploitation Linguistic reconstruction and interdisciplinary perspectives This workshop offers a unique opportunity to delve into how languages encode historical interactions with the environment and to contribute to the growing field of Geoanthropology and Historical Ecology. For more details or inquiries, contact Martine Robbeets at [email protected]. Looking forward to an engaging and insightful experience! #LinguisticPrehistory #Ecology #Anthropocene #Geoanthropology #HistoricalEcology #InterdisciplinaryResearch #Workshop #NorthernPacificRim

A model has been developed that captures the course of human dispersal across Europe during the last Ice Age. In addition to exploring the past, the approach could be adapted for future climate driven migration forecasting. The approach combines paleoclimate, archaeology, human existence potential and population density to create a machine learning approach that can track populations through the Aurignacian (approximately 43,000 to 32,000 years ago). The period is interesting as it contains a number of climatic disruptions including Heinrich events and Dansgaard–Oeschger events, the later believed to be attributed to AMOC pauses. The model reveals four phases of the process. The first phase saw a slow expansion of human settlement from the Levant to the Balkans, followed by the second phase of rapid expansion into western Europe. The subsequent third phase was characterized by a decline in human population, and the fourth phase brought regional increases in population density and further advances into previously unsettled areas of Great Britain and the Iberian Peninsula. IMHO the approach could be used to determine regional and temporal human existence potential when provided climate model data for a warming world from +1.5 to say +5C over a 500 year period. The output could be used to determine more reliable migration potential to inform policy and raise awareness of this critical impact of climate change. Even if that’s not possible, the paper is a fascinating read and is relevant to climate induced migration pressure of all species, not just humans, in unprecedented detail. Applied to animal species it could inform policy on the creation of appropriate wildlife corridors. Paper: https://lnkd.in/e2uMPGRs Press release: https://lnkd.in/eUUJ2uBg #migration #anthropology #archaeology #iceage #europe #pleistocene #climatechange

I'm very pleased to announce that the AHRC and DFG have selected our proposal: "Toxic Heritage: Socio-natural Landscapes of Extraction and Pollution in the Harz and Cornwall," for funding. Professor Tina Asmussen, from Deutsches Bergbau-Museum Bochum, will be the German Principal Investigator, whilst I will be the Principal Investigator on the UK side. "Toxic Heritage" will explore sites in the mining landscapes of the Harz Mountains (Germany) and Cornwall and Devon (England) as socio-natural entities that reveal centuries of human-induced environmental transformations. By focusing on the toxic residues left behind by mining, we aim to reframe mining heritage—not just as a story of economic and technological development, but as an enduring legacy of environmental and socio-cultural impact. By interrogating a range of post-mining sites and texts from the late medieval period up to the present, this interdisciplinary project will combine ethnographic and historical methods to examine mining’s long-term environmental effects. The project will be starting early in 2025, and I will be flagging the UK team recruitment adverts on LinkedIn. #ToxicHeritage #EnvironmentalHistory #MiningLandscapes #CulturalHeritage #RoyalCollegeofArt #RCA #AHRC #UKRI #ArtsandHumanitiesResearchCouncil #Anthropology #Ethnography

We’re thrilled to announce the expansion of our services with the addition of anthropology and cultural heritage expertise, led by Scott Heyes, PhD. Based in our Perth office, Scott joins us as the Senior Principal of this new team, bringing over 25 years of cross-disciplinary experience across Australia, Fiji, and Arctic Canada. With a background spanning museum, corporate, mining, research, and academic sectors, Scott’s expertise complements our existing focus on social surroundings and First Nations engagement. His passion for understanding the connections between people and the environment drives our mission to integrate tangible and intangible cultural heritage into ecological and planning processes. Working alongside our ecology, planning, spatial sciences, bushfire management, and heritage teams, this service broadens our ability to provide holistic, community-focused solutions. This service offer addresses the growing need for comprehensive cultural heritage strategies in Western Australia and South Australia. Here’s to new beginnings and meaningful collaborations! 🌱Learn more about what we can provide and how we’re embedding cultural heritage into environmental practices on our website - https://lnkd.in/ghRFhDWV Warren McGrath I Jeremy Mitchell I Louise Swann I Garry Straughton #EcoLogicalAustralia #TetraTech #LeadingWithScience #FindYourPeople #ApproachableExperts #EnvironmentalConsulting #MakeADifference #CulturalHeritage #Anthropology #NewBeginnings #WestAustralia #SouthAustralia

Bula Vinaka! I am thrilled to co-chair a panel on 'Critical Ecologies of Oceania' at the Australian Anthropological Society's Conference on 27-29 November in Perth, and we are looking for authors of conference papers! Please share and, if interested, submit your abstract by the 25th of August (2024) by clicking on following link https://lnkd.in/gvjsZYCW 9. Critical Climate Ecologies of Oceania Convenors: Gregoire Randin (University of Sydney), Sally Babidge (University of Queensland) Abstract  This panel invites papers from environmental anthropology and social sciences that critically engage with matters of socio-ecological change in Oceania and contribute to a rethinking of dominant discourses about the consequences of and responses to that change. We are interested in ethnographic and qualitative explorations of underrepresented aspects of how people experience climate and environmental changes (including, but not limited to sea level rise, changing weather patterns, floods, fires and other disasters as well as more mundane forms of change), and how such changes inform broader systems of human and more-than-human relations and knowledge. Associated questions include experiences of technoscientific, extractivist, and managerial adjustments in the name of climate change, such as geoengineering, government and non-government development and resilience projects, transitions to ‘green economy’, and socioenvironmental responses to the ‘critical minerals’ boom. We welcome contributions that use decolonizing methods and conceptualizations, and which engage ethnographically with Oceania (as mainland Australia, the Pacific, NZ and insular southeast Asia) on matters of climate, ecology and criticality.

https://lnkd.in/gngMU9mh Explore the fascinating relationship between biological anthropology, earth science, and environmental science in this video! Discover how human evolution has been shaped by geological events, climate change, and environmental pressures over time. Learn about the adaptations humans made to survive extreme environments and what we can learn from ancient civilizations about sustainability. Key topics covered: How climate and geology influenced human evolution Adaptations to extreme environments (altitude, climate) The collapse of ancient civilizations like the Maya due to environmental mismanagement How these lessons guide modern sustainability efforts This video is perfect for students, educators, and anyone interested in the intersection of human evolution, earth sciences, and environmental challenges. Don’t forget to like, share, and subscribe for more insightful videos on anthropology, evolution, and environmental science! #HumanEvolution #EarthScience #EnvironmentalScience #BiologicalAnthropology #Sustainability #AncientCivilizations #ClimateChange #AnthropologyExplained #Unfinished_Curious_Miles #YouTube #LinkedIn

I am co-convening a panel at The 28th European Conference for South Asian Studies from 1st to 4th October 2025. Our panel is called Mapping the Risk Geographies of the Himalayas. If this panel aligns with your work, please apply before 30th January 2025. Abstract This panel aims to study the Himalayas as a geo-political ecosystem, focusing on the diverse causes and implications of risk and disaster in the Himalayas. Extreme environmental events that rise in scale and frequency in the Himalayan region are mired in human and more-than-human causes. The fragile topography of the young mountains and colonial legacies of ‘development’ in the region interact to create multiple risk geographies. To comprehensively understand the Himalayan landscape, this panel aims to initiate a conversation between environmental history, political ecology, anthropology and human geography. The panel aims to explore questions such as: how have the diverse meanings of what constitutes ecological risk in upland ecologies evolved historically? How do we map the diversity of lived experiences and complexity of disaster vulnerability that emerge in the Himalayas, owing to the geographical, social and economic diversity within the Himalayan ecosystem? Papers are particularly welcome that delve into lesser-known spatial/thematic case studies of the Himalayan landscapes of risk. Potential themes could include: • Colonial legacies of ecological intervention in the region • Nature of interaction between state and non-state methods of disaster risk mitigation • More than human causes and implications of climate change • Transborder geographies of risk and migration • Conflict, militarisation and ecological implications https://lnkd.in/duSkaS8w

“Geographies of Race in Poland and Central and Eastern Europe" - published in Ethnic and Racial Studies. By @Dr. Bolaji Balogun & Dr Margaret Amaka Ohia-Nowak (she/her) “Drawing on sociological, migration, historical, and anthropological approaches, particularly in Poland, the article emphasises the importance of geography in discussions around race, decolonisation, and whiteness. It aims to broaden the scope of the geographies of race and foster a more inclusive and global understanding of race and colonisation.” It's freely available for download via Open Access: https://lnkd.in/dKrW3dgE

📄𝗡𝗘𝗪 𝗣𝗨𝗕𝗟𝗜𝗖𝗔𝗧𝗜𝗢𝗡 by Bernard Siman OBE EGMONT - Royal Institute for International Relations "Geopolitics and Geography: A Realigned EU Strategy for Stability in the Middle East and Eastern Mediterranean" *The new EU Commission should commence its geopolitical thinking by acknowledging that geography is not kind to those who ignore her *The new EU Commission should commence its geopolitical thinking by acknowledging that geography is not kind to those who ignore her *The lesson for the EU is a simple one: A values-based approach to geopolitics should be firmly anchored, first and foremost, in the realities of geography and the maps as they exist today #MiddleEast #EU 𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗱 𝗺𝗼𝗿𝗲 👉 https://bit.ly/40pqgJZ

The Impact of Human Interaction with the Physical Environment on the Development of Ancient Cultures Understanding how ancient civilizations interacted with their physical environments is crucial for appreciating the development of human history. The ancient cultures of the Fertile Crescent, Persia, Egypt, Kush, Greece, India, China, Rome, and pre-Columbian America were profoundly shaped by their geography, climate, and natural resources. This article delves into these interactions, highlighting the unique and common ways these civilizations adapted to and transformed their surroundings.....https://lnkd.in/gAZQtYEC #humaninteraction #physicalenvironment #ancientcultures #development #impact #environmentalenvironment #adaptation #technology #agriculture #urbanization #climatechange #resources #sustainability #ecology #archaeology #anthropology #history #socialchange #culturaldiversity #globalization #光る君へ #IMPINKY #AlainDelon #classassignment #class #assignment #ebook #pdf #book