Historical Ecology for Applied Archaeology: Climate Change, Resource Management, and Governance
Part of: Society for American Archaeology 82nd Annual Meeting, Vancouver, BC (2017)
Historical ecology is a research program concerned with the interactions of people and
environment through time and the consequences of those relationships on the formation
of contemporary and ancient landscapes, habitats and culture. Archaeology has
developed theoretical and methodological tools for contributing to historical ecological
research and constitutes a major part of this multidisciplinary effort. Through its applied
lens, historical ecology continues to grow as a major field of inquiry dealing with
questions around climate change, environmental conservation, Indigenous governance
and autonomy, and resource management systems. This session explores how
archaeologists are using the historical ecology research program to guide their research
design, praxis, and even ontologies. Such research will highlight current and on-going
archaeological contributions to climate change research, and ecological/heritage
management and conservation that is socially just.
Other Keywords
historical ecology •
Zooarchaeology •
Northwest Coast •
Conservation •
Marine Mammals •
Ethnoecology •
Ethnoarchaeology •
ancient DNA •
traditional ecological knowledge •
Human-environment dynamics
Geographic Keywords
North America (Continent) •
Yukon Territory (State / Territory) •
Alaska (State / Territory) •
North America - NW Coast/Alaska •
Alberta (State / Territory) •
New York (State / Territory) •
New Hampshire (State / Territory) •
Idaho (State / Territory) •
Maine (State / Territory) •
British Columbia (State / Territory)
Resources Inside This Collection (Viewing 1-14 of 14)
- Documents (14)
- Ancient DNA and Historical Ecology: An Innovative Approach to Environmental Conservation (2017)
- Can archaeology provide an evidence base for Realistic Disaster Scenarios that contribute to reducing vulnerability? (2017)
- Clam Gardens: Ancient and Living Landscapes in the Salish Sea (2017)
- Cultural Forests in Cross Section: The Exposure and Destruction of CMT Chronologies on Vancouver Island’s West Coast. (2017)
- Did Tlingit and Haida eat sea otters during the pre-contact period? an issue of intellectual property and cultural heritage (2017)
- Grassroots modernization: pastoral economies, climate, and political change in Iceland's 18th though 20th centuries (2017)
- The Historical Ecology of Laxgalts'ap – a Cultural Keystone Place of the Gitga’ata of Northern British Columbia (2017)
- HISTORICAL ECOLOGY OF TIV MIGRATION AND CONFLICTS IN THE BENUE VALLEY OF NIGERIA: IMPLICATIONS FOR FOOD SECURITY. (2017)
- Icelandic Livestock and Landscapes: Biometrical Signatures of Land Surface Change (2017)
- The Maritime Fur Trade before the Maritime Fur Trade on the Pacific Coast of North America (2017)
- Mountain Top to Ocean Floor: The Eco-cultural History of Hauyat (2017)
- Radiocarbon dating uncertainty constrains our ability to identify cyclical human-environment dynamics (2017)
- Relatives of the Deep: Situated Knowledge and Archaeological Remote Sensing to Assess Climate Change Vulnerability at Tl’ches (2017)
- Unique Ecologies of British Columbia (2017)