Traversing Past Landscapes and Human-Environment Interactions

Landscape archaeology emphasizes the ways that past peoples shaped the environment and how the environment can simultaneously impact human societies. Not bound by study region or time period, this session emphasizes the diverse landscapes that humans have co-created and called home through time. We seek to showcase human-environment interactions through various archaeological subfields, theoretical lenses, and methodological approaches. Presenters interested in human-animal and human-plant relationships are welcome, but so too are those interested in biomolecular archaeology, the built environment, paleoclimate modeling, and beyond. Our goal is to highlight the ethnobiological relevance of landscape archaeology and to provide new ways to appreciate the dynamic history of places.