Rethinking the Archaeology of Human/Environmental Interactions in Deep Time History

2013 ◽  
pp. 183-200 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kent G. Lightfoot
Keyword(s):  
Time History ◽  
Deep Time ◽  
Environmental Interactions

Towards a New Vision for Australian Politics

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anne Tiernan
Keyword(s):  
Time History ◽  
Deep Time ◽  
European Settlement ◽  
Relative Success ◽  
Australian Continent ◽  
Political Studies ◽  
Political Traditions ◽  
History Of ◽  
Thematic Approach ◽  
New Vision

Australian politics is often characterized as derivative, pragmatic, and utilitarian—as insufficiently interesting or important to devote much time to. This Handbook challenges that contention, arguing it reflects a narrow, colonial perspective and ignores the richness and diversity of the deep-time history of the Australian continent and the unique inheritance the blending of Australia’s many histories and traditions has produced. Australian political studies encompasses a broad family of research disciplines, whose diverse and methodologically plural efforts have transformed our understanding of Aboriginal cultures and of European settlement. This volume’s thematic approach captures the politics, policies, and societies that have evolved in Australia’s many different landscapes and places. Its chapters present a theoretically rigorous, empirically informed, and historically nuanced account of what is distinctive about Australian politics, its capacity for democratic innovation and what accounts (its many shortcomings notwithstanding), for the resilience of its political traditions and Australia’s relative success.

Early Cretaceous mealybug herbivory on a laurel highlights the deep‐time history of angiosperm–scale insect associations

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lifang Xiao ◽  
Conrad C. Labandeira ◽  
Ben‐Dov Yair ◽  
S. Augusta Maccracken ◽  
Chungkun Shih ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Early Cretaceous ◽  
Time History ◽  
Scale Insect ◽  
Deep Time ◽  
History Of

scholarly journals 2000 Year-old Bogong moth (Agrotis infusa) Aboriginal food remains, Australia

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Birgitta Stephenson ◽  
◽  
Bruno David ◽  
Joanna Fresløv ◽  
Lee J. Arnold ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Time History ◽  
Mountain Range ◽  
Dietary Practices ◽  
Archaeological Evidence ◽  
Deep Time ◽  
Language Groups ◽  
Australian Alps ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
Aboriginal Groups

AbstractInsects form an important source of food for many people around the world, but little is known of the deep-time history of insect harvesting from the archaeological record. In Australia, early settler writings from the 1830s to mid-1800s reported congregations of Aboriginal groups from multiple clans and language groups taking advantage of the annual migration of Bogong moths (Agrotis infusa) in and near the Australian Alps, the continent’s highest mountain range. The moths were targeted as a food item for their large numbers and high fat contents. Within 30 years of initial colonial contact, however, the Bogong moth festivals had ceased until their recent revival. No reliable archaeological evidence of Bogong moth exploitation or processing has ever been discovered, signalling a major gap in the archaeological history of Aboriginal groups. Here we report on microscopic remains of ground and cooked Bogong moths on a recently excavated grindstone from Cloggs Cave, in the southern foothills of the Australian Alps. These findings represent the first conclusive archaeological evidence of insect foods in Australia, and, as far as we know, of their remains on stone artefacts in the world. They provide insights into the antiquity of important Aboriginal dietary practices that have until now remained archaeologically invisible.

scholarly journals Tropical islands of the Anthropocene: Deep histories of anthropogenic terrestrial–marine entanglement in the Pacific and Caribbean

2021 ◽  
Vol 118 (40) ◽  
pp. e2022209118 ◽  
Author(s):  
Scott M. Fitzpatrick ◽  
Christina M. Giovas
Keyword(s):  
Tropical Forests ◽  
Model Systems ◽  
Anthropogenic Effects ◽  
Tropical Islands ◽  
Deep Time ◽  
Environmental Interactions ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
Near Shore ◽  
Cultural Responses

Islands are useful model systems for examining human–environmental interactions. While many anthropogenic effects visible in the archaeological and paleoecological records are terrestrial in nature (e.g., clearance of tropical forests for agriculture and settlement; introduction of nonnative flora and fauna), native peoples also relied heavily on marine environments for their subsistence and livelihood. Here we use two island case studies—Palau (Micronesia) and the Lesser Antilles (Caribbean)—and approach their long-term settlement history through a “ridge-to-reef” perspective to assess the role that human activity played in land- and seascape change over deep time. In particular, we examine the entanglement of terrestrial and marine ecosystems resulting from anthropogenic effects and cultural responses to socio-environmental feedback. We suggest that on the humanized tropical islands of the Anthropocene, mangroves, near shore and littoral areas, and coral reefs were major sites of terrestrial–marine interface chronicling and modulating anthropogenic effects.

Herding the Cats of Deep Time

2018 ◽  
pp. 1-25
Author(s):  
David Wood
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Sexual Difference ◽  
Life Science ◽  
Time History ◽  
Uneven Development ◽  
Deep Time ◽  
The Past ◽  
Structural Inertia ◽  
Methodological Considerations ◽  
Philosophical Questions

This chapter aligns scientific and pre-philosophical angles on history with various reflective and methodological considerations. The past, a philosophical puzzle at the best of times, presents itself to us in many ways and at many different scales. If we abandon ideas of providence or progress for more naturalism we are left with numerous often incommensurable stories. And our inescapable performative interest we have in such accounts impacts our understanding of the present age and our arguably dark future. We draw here on phenomenological, hermeneutic, and deconstructive critique to articulate a provisional temporal phronesis by which to address the challenges of Deep Time. This brings to the fore such notions as irreversibility, fatal delay, structural inertia, uneven development, tipping points, time unimaginable, multiple strands, and aporetic time. Every age raises deep philosophical questions in its own way. War, freedom, justice, sexual difference have all had their day, but today the spectacle of anthropogenic climate change presses philosophy to the limit. Agency, responsibility, time, history, nature, earth, life, science, even truth—are not only live issues, they are becoming perspicuously mortal concerns. How to deal with the passions aroused by our situation, which both drive and block an adequate response to it?

scholarly journals Vertebrate Palaeoecology of the Pisco Formation (Miocene, Peru): Glimpses into the Ancient Humboldt Current Ecosystem

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (11) ◽  
pp. 1188
Author(s):  
Alberto Collareta ◽  
Olivier Lambert ◽  
Felix G. Marx ◽  
Christian de Muizon ◽  
Rafael Varas-Malca ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Middle Miocene ◽  
Time History ◽  
Western Coast ◽  
Apex Predators ◽  
Humboldt Current ◽  
Deep Time ◽  
High Productivity ◽  
Pisco Formation ◽  
Bony Fishes ◽  
Vertebrate Assemblage

The northward-flowing Humboldt Current hosts perpetually high levels of productivity along the western coast of South America. Here, we aim to elucidate the deep-time history of this globally important ecosystem based on a detailed palaeoecological analysis of the exceptionally preserved middle–upper Miocene vertebrate assemblages of the Pisco Formation of the East Pisco Basin, southern Peru. We summarise observations on hundreds of fossil whales, dolphins, seals, seabirds, turtles, crocodiles, sharks, rays, and bony fishes to reconstruct ecological relationships in the wake of the Middle Miocene Climatic Optimum, and the marked cooling that followed it. The lowermost, middle Miocene Pisco sequence (P0) and its vertebrate assemblage testify to a warm, semi-enclosed, near-shore palaeoenvironment. During the first part of the Tortonian (P1), high productivity within a prominent upwelling system supported a diverse assemblage of mesopredators, at least some of which permanently resided in the Pisco embayment and used it as a nursery or breeding/calving area. Younger portions of the Pisco Formation (P2) reveal a more open setting, with wide-ranging species like rorquals increasingly dominating the vertebrate assemblage, but also local differences reflecting distance from the coast. Like today, these ancient precursors of the modern Humboldt Current Ecosystem were based on sardines, but notably differed from their present-day equivalent in being dominated by extremely large-bodied apex predators like Livyatan melvillei and Carcharocles megalodon.

PERILAKU STRUKTUR BAJA TIPE MRF DENGAN BEBAN LATERAL BERDASARKAN SNI 1726-2012 DAN METODE PERFORMANCE BASED PLASTIC DESIGN (PBPD)

2014 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Nidiasari Jati Sunaryati Eem Ikhsan
Keyword(s):  
Pushover Analysis ◽  
Time History ◽  
Time History Analysis ◽  
Plastic Design ◽  
History Analysis ◽  
Non Linear ◽  
Static Pushover Analysis

Struktur rangka baja pemikul momen merupakan jenis struktur baja tahan gempa yang populer digunakan. Daktilitas struktur yang tinggi merupakan salah satu keunggulan struktur ini, sehingga mampu menahan deformasi inelastik yang besar. Dalam desain, penggunaan metode desain elastis berupa evaluasi non-linear static (Pushover analysis) maupun evaluasi non-linear analisis (Time History Analysis) masih digunakan sebagai dasar perencanaan meskipun perilaku struktur sebenarnya saat kondisi inelastik tidak dapat digambarkan dengan baik. Metode Performance-Based Plastic Design (PBPD) berkembang untuk melihat perilaku struktur sebenarnya dengan cara menetapkan terlebih dahulu simpangan dan mekanisme leleh struktur sehingga gaya geser dasar yang digunakan adalah sama dengan usaha yang dibutuhkan untuk mendorong struktur hingga tercapai simpangan yang telah direncanakan. Studi dilakukan terhadap struktur baja 5 lantai yang diberi beban gempa berdasarkan SNI 1726, 2012 dan berdasarkan metode PBPD. Hasil analisa menunjukkan bahwa struktur yang diberi gaya gempa berdasarkan metode PBPD mencapai simpangan maksimum sesuai simpangan rencana dan kinerja struktur yang dihasilkan lebih baik .

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