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Historical ecology draws from archaeology, archival research, ethnography, the humanities, and the biophysical sciences to merge the history of the Earth's biophysical system with the history of humanity.
List of contents
Foreword; Historical Ecologies, Heterarchies and Transtemporal Landscapes: Introductory Perspectives; SECTION ONE: Ideologies and Applications of Historical Ecology and Heterarchy; Chapter 1: Dialectic in Historical Ecology; Chapter 2: Historical Ecology and Longitudinal Research Strategies around Lake Mývatn, Iceland; Chapter 3: Gender, Feminism, and Heterarchy; Chapter 4: 'Can you hear me now?': Heterarchy as an Instrument and Outcome of Collective Action in Iron Age and Medieval Europe; SECTION TWO: Identifying Resilience; Chapter 5: Reconstructing African Landscape Historical Ecologies: An Integrative Approach for Managing Biocultural Heritage; Chapter 6: Resilience of Agrarian Land Use Practices in Burgundy, France: Evolving Approaches to Historical Ecology; Chapter 7: Resilience, Heterarchy, and the Native American Cultural Landscapes of the Yazoo Basin and the Mississippi River Delta; SECTION THREE: Social, Settlement and Territorial Dynamics of the European Iron Age; Chapter 8: Mapping British and Irish Hillforts; Chapter 9: Humanizing the Western Cantabrian Mountains in Northwestern Iberia: a Diachronic Perspective on the Exploitation of the Uplands during Late Prehistory; Chapter 10: The End of Iron Age Societies in Northwestern Iberia: Egalitarianism, Heterarchy and Hierarchy in Contexts of Interaction; Chapter 11: Iron Age Societies at Work: Towns, Kinship and Territory in Historical Analogy; SECTION FOUR: Ritual Landscapes and Monumentality; Chapter 12: Empires of Stone, Politics of Shadow: The Historical Ecology and Political Economy of Mortuary Monuments in Mongolia (1500 BC- 1400 AD); Chapter 13: A Landscape of Ancestors-Looking Back and Thinking Forward; Chapter 14: Civic-Ceremonial Transition at Lambityeco, Oaxaca, Mexico; Chapter 15: Sacred Wells across the
Longue Durée; Afterword: Integrating Time and Space in Dynamic Systems
About the author
Celeste Ray is Professor of Environmental Arts and Humanities and Anthropology at the University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee. She is the author of
The Origins of Ireland's Holy Wells and
Highland Heritage: Scottish Americans in the American South, and is the editor of volumes considering Scottish identities or Southern Culture, including
Transatlantic Scots,
Southern Heritage on Display and
Ethnicity (Volume Six of the
Encyclopedia of Southern Culture).
Manuel Fernández-Götz is Reader in Archaeology at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, and winner of the Philip Leverhulme Prize. He has authored more than 150 publications on Iron Age societies and the Roman conquest, including the monographs
Identity and Power: The Transformation of Iron Age Societies in Northeast Gaul (2014), and the edited volumes
Eurasia at the Dawn of History (2016) and
Conflict Archaeology: Materialities of Collective Violence from Prehistory to Late Antiquity (2018). He has directed fieldwork in Germany, Spain, Scotland and Croatia.
Summary
Historical ecology draws from archaeology, archival research, ethnography, the humanities, and the biophysical sciences to merge the history of the Earth’s biophysical system with the history of humanity.
