We are organizing a new PhD course on Play and #envhum in Stavanger in December! This should be very cool. 5 ECTS, no registration cost, though students pay their own expenses. Students in NoRS-EH and ANEST can have some or all travel expenses paid.
5 ECTS PhD course in Environmental Humanities to be held in Stavanger, 2-6 December 2024
Starting Thursday: 17th Archaeological Conference of Central Germany in Halle (Saale) from 25-28 September 2024: „A Stone Age History of Clothing“. The program is featuring a lot of great colleagues presenting their latest research. #archaeologywww.lda-lsa.de/en/mda17
In this commentary essay of the inaugural issue of Animal History, I discuss what "animal prehistory" is, and why it must also be a critical-conceptual project; I further propose that historicity, zoo-difference, and zoo-literacy must be at the core of the project #animalsdoi.org/10.1525/ah.2...
This paper engages animal archaeologies with key debates in animal history. Animal archaeology is currently and primarily framed as a multi-species venture, and a brief review of its disciplinary gene...
New paper on the relationship between human cultural practice, ecosystem complexity, and biodiversity. We point out that biodiversity is tied to recursive human-ecosystem relations and that human agency in the deep past often also had curative biodiversity effects: doi.org/10.1098/rstb...
Today's biodiversity crisis fundamentally threatens the habitability of the planet, thus ranking among the primary human challenges of our time. Much emphasis is currently placed on the loss of biodiv...
CfP „From Different Worlds – Interdisziplinäre Kombination und Adaption von Theorien in den Altertumswissenschaften“ Die AG TidA (@agtida.bsky.socialwww.agtida.de/cfp-from-dif...
Bowheading north? 🐋🐳 Our attempt to work towards a "blue humanities" perspective on the deep human past, exploring the overlooked role of pioneer whales for human sustenance at the incipient North Atlantic seabord in Southern Scandinavia at the end of the Ice Age: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
LOL, ja. 🤣
DS9 = Black Sheep of the Golden Age of ST? 😇
Das kann doch nicht Kanon sein!
Must read for all human evolutionary behavioural scientists, not just behavioural ecologists
If we could all avoid producing, reviewing, and reading these papers ever again, we would divert a substantial amount of talent toward productive research.
There are two papers which have been published often enough now that they deserve special consideration. These papers contribute little to cumulative science but are difficult to eradicate.