Event Details
Thursday, Mar 19, 2020
Archaeology Talk: Forgotten Ecologies
Time: 7:00 pm til 8:00 pm
Location: Weedon Island Preserve, 1800 Weedon Dr NE, St Pete
Description: This monthly CGCAS Archaeology Lecture series is sponsored by the Alliance for Weedon Island Archaeological Research and Education (AWIARE).
Forgotten Ecologies: Recent Vegetation Transformations Reveal Past Human Influence
Christopher A. Kiahtipes, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Scholar, Institute for the Advanced Study of Culture and the Environment, University of South Florida
Humans leave lasting environmental legacies on the landscapes they occupy. From the fire-stick to the farm, human interventions in ecological process have important ramifications for future vegetation cover. Yet disentangling human-driven (anthropogenic) vegetation change from natural fluctuations in climate has proven difficult in the sedimentary record. I explore the conceptual and empirical challenges of identifying and assessing human-driven environmental change in archaeological and paleoecological contexts. I do so using my own research in the Mai Ndombe, Equateur, and Tchuapa provinces of the Democratic Republic of Congo. Coring of deposits associated with archaeological sites and offsite peat-land complexes dispersed across the interior forest zone reveals regional patterns in climatic-forcing as wel
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