Archaeological Considerations in the Study of the Anthropocene
Author(s): James Gibb
Year: 2016
Summary
The Anthropocene epoch, garnering the interest of geologists and environmental scientists for the past decade, has now entered the archaeological lexicon. As in other disciplines, questions remain about what Anthropocene means and when it began, as well as how it differs from the Holocene. This presentation explores some of these issues and offers a ground-up approach by which conventional approaches in archaeology might be adapted to a reassessment of the human experience and the role of humanity in this newly defined geological epoch.
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Archaeological Considerations in the Study of the Anthropocene. James Gibb. Presented at The 81st Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Orlando, Florida. 2016 ( tDAR id: 405023)
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Keywords
General
Anthropocene
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Methods
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Theory
Geographic Keywords
North America - Mid-Atlantic
Spatial Coverage
min long: -84.067; min lat: 36.031 ; max long: -72.026; max lat: 43.325 ;