A5036084291- Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology
- Anthropological Studies and Insights
- Global Maritime and Colonial Histories
- Archaeology and Rock Art Studies
- Maritime and Coastal Archaeology
- Archaeology and ancient environmental studies
- Conservation Techniques and Studies
- Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration
- Cultural Heritage Management and Preservation
- Urban and Rural Development Challenges
- Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
- Animal Diversity and Health Studies
- Colonialism, slavery, and trade
- Environmental DNA in Biodiversity Studies
- Forest Ecology and Biodiversity Studies
- Land Use and Ecosystem Services
- Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology
- African history and culture studies
- Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
- African Botany and Ecology Studies
- Geographies of human-animal interactions
University of Cambridge
2022-2024
Arthur B. McDonald-Canadian Astroparticle Physics Research Institute
2022
British Museum
2019-2021
Uppsala University
2016-2019
This paper presents the results of a consensus-driven process identifying 50 priority research questions for historical ecology obtained through crowdsourcing, literature reviews, and in-person workshopping. A deliberative approach was designed to maximize discussion debate with defined outcomes. Two workshops (in Sweden Canada) over course two years online discussions were peer facilitated define specific key from anthropological archaeological perspectives. The aim this is showcase variety...
Recent archaeological research has firmly established eastern Africa's offshore islands as important localities for understanding the region's pre-Swahili maritime adaptations and early Indian Ocean trade connections. While importance of sea small to development urbanized mercantile Swahili societies long been recognized, formative stages island colonization—and in particular processes by which migrating Iron Age groups essentially became "maritime"—are still relatively poorly understood....
The spectre of 'overgrazing' looms large in historical and political narratives ecological degradation savannah ecosystems. While pastoral exploitation is a conspicuous driver landscape variability modification, assumptions that such change inevitable or necessarily negative deserve to be continuously evaluated challenged. With reference three case studies from Kenya – the Laikipia Plateau, Lake Baringo basin, Amboseli ecosystem we argue impacts pastoralism are contingent on diachronic...
Most archaeological discussions of surplus production tend to focus either on its role in the emergence and maintenance social complexity (whether among hunter-gatherers, farming communities or incipient states) enabling properties as a basis for technological advances aesthetic elaboration. Here, we offer rather different perspective an initiator communitas driver ethnogenesis following period intense socio-ecological stress, environmental degradation localized demographic decline during...
Research on the social dimensions of climate change is increasingly focused people's experiences, values and relations to environment as a means understand how people interpret adapt changes. However, particular challenge has been making seemingly temporally geographically distant more immediate local so prompt behavioural change. Environmental humanists, anthropologists historians have tried address through analysis philosophies memories weather. Archaeology, commonly preoccupied by hard...
Research on recent African history remains largely focused the impact of colonial and post-colonial interventions local communities. This is commonly done at expense epistemologi...
"Archaeological perspectives on risk and community resilience in the Baringo Lowlands." Azania: Archaeological Research Africa, 54(1), p. 138
In 2020, our team organized a touring exhibition among Kenya's Ilchamus community that set out to make their oral history tangible and visual by including photographic, archival, ethnographic, archaeological materials. This paper discusses how the was designed it facilitated multivocality about past, fostered engagement with environmental cultural histories, identity (re)asserted over objects. particular, archival photographs assemblages were central evoking imagery of everyday life...
Climate and climate change can be impenetrable statistical concepts the sometimes hegemonic scientific narratives around them make seem purview of specialists, while at same time create an epistemic, geographic temporal distance between individual possible future consequences.However, has already changed communities throughout world have most closely experienced it through weather.Weather is medium which reality felt immediately, re-socialised, given cultural meanings functions, long-term...