A field archaeological perspective on the Anthropocene

TY - JOUR

T1 - A field archaeological perspective on the Anthropocene

AU - Riede, Felix

AU - Sørensen, Christina Vestergaard

AU - Fredensborg, Kristoffer H.

PY - 2016

Y1 - 2016

N2 - In a recent Antiquity debate, Todd Braje and respondents discuss the merits or otherwise of the recently proposed and hotly contested geological ‘Age of Man’—the Anthropocene. These papers make a useful contribution to the rapidly growing literature on this epoch-in-the-making (cf. Swanson et al.2015). Recent publications by members of the Anthropocene Working Group (AWG; http://quaternary.stratigraphy.org/workinggroups/anthropocene/) suggest a start date for this epoch of c. 1950 (Zalasiewicz et al.2015; Waters et al.2016; Zalasiewicz & Waters 2016), the adoption of which would challenge archaeology as a discipline concerned with deep-time socio-ecological dynamics.

AB - In a recent Antiquity debate, Todd Braje and respondents discuss the merits or otherwise of the recently proposed and hotly contested geological ‘Age of Man’—the Anthropocene. These papers make a useful contribution to the rapidly growing literature on this epoch-in-the-making (cf. Swanson et al.2015). Recent publications by members of the Anthropocene Working Group (AWG; http://quaternary.stratigraphy.org/workinggroups/anthropocene/) suggest a start date for this epoch of c. 1950 (Zalasiewicz et al.2015; Waters et al.2016; Zalasiewicz & Waters 2016), the adoption of which would challenge archaeology as a discipline concerned with deep-time socio-ecological dynamics.

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U2 - 10.15184/aqy.2016.183

DO - 10.15184/aqy.2016.183

M3 - Comment/debate/letter to the editor

SN - 0003-598X

VL - 90

SP - 1

EP - 5

JO - Antiquity

JF - Antiquity

IS - 354

M1 - e7

ER -