ERC Starting Grant · 2019
Anthropogenic Heathlands: The Social Organization of Past Grazing Landscapes
In a time of accelerating human-caused ecological catastrophe, questions of institutional resilience have become extremely timely. In bringing the archaeological perspective of a 4200-year timespan, ANTHEA seeks to fundamentally rethink the concept of resilience in past forms of social organization. By shifting attention away from seeing institutional robustness as equilibrium, stability and continuity and placing the questions of instability, uncertainty, and areal flexibility at the centre, ANTHEA introduces a new archaeology of the long-term temporal dynamics that promote super-resilient past land-use regimes. ANTHEA will show how collaborative institutions of common land use were…
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