The article “Conservation through Biocultural Heritage—Examples from Sub-Saharan Africa” which appears in Land special issue “Biodiversity and Protected Areas” is a contribution to the Integrated History and Future of People on…

The IHOPE-project  Domesticated Landscapes of the Peloponnese (DoLP) explores human-environment interactions in the Peloponnese (southern Greece) over the long-term. The latest contribution from the project “Resilience and persistence of ancient…

As water availability, management and conservation become global challenges, there is now wide consensus that historical knowledge can provide crucial information to address present crises, offering unique opportunities to appreciate…

Dr. Fredrik Charpentier Ljungqvist, Department of History at Stockholm University, has been appointed Pro Futura Scientia Fellow by the Swedish Collegium of Advanced Study and the Bank of Sweden Tercentenary Foundation….

Uppsala University hereby announces as vacant the following two-year position as  Postdoctoral Research Fellow in palaeoecology in the research project Contesting Marginality: The Boreal Forest of Inland Scandinavia and the…

Sjoerd Kluiving (VU/ CLUE+) receives a 4 MY grant from the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Innovative Training Networks (ITN), Horizon2020 of the European Commission. TerraNova trains 15 Early Stage Researchers in an…

Denise Pahl Schaan, 55, a major figure in Amazonian archaeology and professor in the graduate anthropology program at the Universidade Federal do Pará (UFPa), died from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS)…

The Herring School and the Clam Garden Network aim to bring together culture, ecology, and governance to support sustainability of coastal communities of the Northwest Coast of North America. The…

Issues and Concepts in Historical Ecology examines key terms and practices within the research framework of historical ecology. Employing a novel approach to collaborative writing projects, the authors examine three…

The African Quaternary: Environments, Ecology and Humans (AFQUA) have opened a call for session and workshop proposals for the second International Conference and Workshops, held at the National Museum of Kenya, Nairobi, Kenya…