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Human Ecodynamics (Paperback)
G. Bailey, Ruth Charles, Nick Winder
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The papers in this book were first presented at the Association for
Environmental Archaeology conference at Newcastle upon Tyne in
1998. The aim of the conference was to encourage contributors to
examine the inter-relationships between classes of data that have
increasingly come to be treated in isolation and to encourage
thinking about theory in environmental archaeology. Authors have
focused on explicit development of theory, others on bridging
barriers between different fields of study or classes of evidence.
The notion that people are influenced, but not necessarily
determined, by the environments in which they live, may seem like a
truism, but an ecodynamic perspective however requires us to
question the human impact on the environment, disregarding
agricultural influences. Human Ecodynamics discuss how people have
been affecting, and affected by environmental variables around them
since the beginning of time. Archaeologists are peculiarly well
placed to link culture and nature together as the discipline
discerns thriving socio-cultural and biological traditions. This
thinking is applied to the way in which we conduct our studies of
the world around us, and to the boundaries between the various
disciplines and sub-disciplines into which we sub-divide the
subject matter of investigation.
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