<html>Looking at the Present to Understand the Past or <i>vice versa</i>? The Role of Long-Term Knowledge in Present and Future Policies</html>
Author(s): Carla Lancelotti
Year: 2025
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This is an abstract from the "Modelling Human Behaviour through Ethnoarchaeology: Ethnoarchaeology as Long-Term Traditional Knowledge (L-TeK)" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.
In this paper I reflect on how an ethnoarchaeological approach to food sustainability can potentially impact the design of sustainable policies by offering an alternative perspective to mainstream knowledge. In recent years the incorporation of time-tested practices, encompassing Traditional Knowledge (TK), Local Knowledge (LK) and Indigenous Knowledge (IK) into the framework of sustainable agrifood systems has gained substantial traction. While TK encapsulates millennia of experiential wisdom and practices well adapted to the environmental and climatic conditions, the insights derived from Long-Term Knowledge (L-TK) have yet to be fully harnessed. Building on the results of the RAINDROPS project (Resilience and Adaptation to Drylands) I will showcase how a combination of ethnographic, modelling and archaeological data can potentially contribute to devising sustainable practices for agriculture in arid and hyper-arid areas.
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Looking at the Present to Understand the Past or vice versa? The Role of Long-Term Knowledge in Present and Future Policies. Carla Lancelotti. Presented at The 90th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. 2025 ( tDAR id: 509460)
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Abstract Id(s): 52885