Theme:
Theories and methods in archaeological sciences
Session format:
Discussion session: round table
Title:
Land use in Africa: New methods, perspectives, and data challenges
Content:
The study of Land Use and Land Cover (LULC) in Holocene Africa has been geographically and temporally unbalanced, particularly with regard to the integration of archaeological data into the reconstruction of past land use. Past African dynamics have often worked on a very large scale, and changes in LULC are extremely significant to the study of the development of cultural trajectories on a truly continental perspective. In this session we will gather experts from different regions of Africa with the aim of discussing possible directions for research on LULC in Africa, with a special focus on the regions that have not yet been the subject of land use studies. This session will also explore the viability of integrating new methods, perspectives on the relevance and future application of these studies, and the many data challenges present in the archaeological record.
Keywords:
Africa, Land-use, Land-Cover, Holocene
Session associated with MERC:
no
Session associated with CIfA:
no
Session associated with SAfA:
yes
Main organiser:
Andrea Kay (Switzerland) 1
Co-organisers:
Stefano Biagetti (Spain) 2
Affiliations:
1. University of Lausanne
2. Universitat Pompeu Fabra
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