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DOI	10.1002/wcc.667
	Paleoenvironmental humanities: Challenges and prospects of writing deep environmental histories
	Hussain S.T.; Riede F.
发表日期	2020
ISSN	1757-7780
卷号	11 期号:5
英文摘要	Environmental uncertainty, climate change, and ecological crisis loom large in the present and permeate scenarios of potential futures. To understand these predicaments and prepare for potentially catastrophic scenarios, there have been repeated calls to explore the diverse human–climate relations of human societies in the past. The archeological record offers rich datasets on human–environment articulations reflected in artifacts, ecofacts, and their relational entanglements. Much of these human–environment conjugations are, in the absence of written records, only accessible archeologically, yet that discipline has played little role in the “environmental turn” of the humanities or the climate change debate. In an effort to articulate archeological research traditions with these concerns, we frame the notion of the paleoenvironmental humanities (pEH): a deep-time training ground for current ideas and theories on the interrelationship of human behavior, climate, and environmental change. The key objective of the pEH is to offer a rejoinder between ecological reductionism and the adoption of full-scale environmental relativism, opening up new interpretive and comparative terrain for the examination of human–climate relations. We probe the potential of this perspective by drawing on insights from Pleistocene archeology. The long-term temporalities of the Pleistocene, we argue, promote alternative imaginaries of the human–climate nexus and draw attention to similarly long-term futures. We end our proposal with a reflection on the responsibility of archeological practitioners to balance hopeful narratives of human adaptability with those of societal collapse, countering the emergent linkage between climate skepticism and right-wing nationalism, and to bring such issues to public attention. This article is categorized under: Climate, History, Society, Culture > Disciplinary Perspectives. © 2020 The Authors. WIREs Climate Change published by Wiley Periodicals LLC.
英文关键词	climate change; deep history; eco-criticism; environmental archeology; environmental humanities
语种	英语
scopus关键词	Behavioral research; Ecology; History; Disciplinary perspective; Ecological crisis; Environmental change; Environmental history; Environmental uncertainty; Human behaviors; Long-term future; Research traditions; Climate change; archaeological evidence; archaeology; catastrophic event; climate variation; nature-society relations; paleoclimate; paleoenvironment; Pleistocene; social history
来源期刊	Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/142279
作者单位	Department of Archaeology and Heritage Studies, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark; Centre for Environmental Humanities, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark; BIOCHANGE – Center for Biodiversity Dynamics in a Changing World, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark; Centre for Interdisciplinary Research (ZiF), University of Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany; OSEH – Oslo School of Environmental Humanities, Oslo University, Oslo, Norway
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Hussain S.T.,Riede F.. Paleoenvironmental humanities: Challenges and prospects of writing deep environmental histories[J],2020,11(5).
APA	Hussain S.T.,&Riede F..(2020).Paleoenvironmental humanities: Challenges and prospects of writing deep environmental histories.Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change,11(5).
MLA	Hussain S.T.,et al."Paleoenvironmental humanities: Challenges and prospects of writing deep environmental histories".Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change 11.5(2020).