Historical Ecology in the Cold and Wet: Carole Crumley’s North Atlantic Legacy

Summary

In 1990 Carole Crumley organized a School of American Research (SAR) seminar that brought together a group of researchers from different areas with interests in a wide range of periods and topics in world archaeology and human ecology. This disparate group was united by Carole’s vision of a fresh approach to the interactions of environment and society through time- something beyond the increasingly stale processual/ post-processual debates of that period. Her vision of a dynamic interaction of place, people, history, climate, and dialectical inter-relation of nature and culture owed much to her own exposure to the Annales school and its notion of long term interactions of variables operating at different temporal and spatial scales, of the cross cutting conjunctures that could create transformative change, and of the importance of a sustained regional research focus. The 1990 SAR seminar generated the hugely influential 1994 edited volume and likewise altered the professional trajectories of many of the participants. This presentation provides an overview of the impact of Carole’s longitudinal research strategy in two decades of North Atlantic research.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Society for American Archaeology 81st Annual Meeting, Orlando, FL (2016)   •
• Historical Ecology, Heterarchy and Multitemporal Dynamics: Papers in Honor of Carole Crumley

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