PANTROPOCENE: Finding a Pre-Industrial, Pan-Tropical Anthropocene
Case Study Room, Social Sciences Building
05 May 2023 02:00 pm
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05 May 2023 03:30 pm
The Department of History and the Department of Sociology and Anthropology of the School of Social Sciences invite you to
PANTROPOCENE:
Finding a Pre-Industrial, Pan-Tropical Anthropocene
05 May 2023
2:00 to 3:30PM
Case Study Room
Social Science Building
About the Pantropocene
The PANTROPOCENE project explores how the origins of the Anthropocene, the global epoch when human activity is the dominant force shaping the Earth System, are linked to historical changes in human interactions with tropical forests. The project specifically studies the Philippine Archipelago immediately prior to and throughout the Spanish Colonial Period (1565-1898). For the last two years, the project has conducted a multi-disciplinary literature review and novel research in archaeology, anthropology, paleoecology, remote sensing and history to construct unprecedentedly-detailed historic land use models, which visualize changing land use patterns throughout the colonial period and how said changes potentially affected forest cover over time. Ultimately, by reliably categorizing and estimating the biophysical effects of diverse and historic Philippine lifestyles, the project hopes to create a framework that can be exported to other former Spanish colonies and greater Southeast Asia. The desired result would be a newly quantified history of the early Anthropocene with the Philippines at the center.
About the Team
PANTROPOCENE is a multi-disciplinary research project led by Dr. Patrick Roberts and based at the Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology in Jena, Germany. The project researches the pan-tropical origins of the Anthropocene by modelling historic land use and forest cover between 1492 and 1900, focusing particularly on the Philippine Archipelago just prior to and throughout the Spanish Colonial Period (1565-1898). Land use models are generated from extensive reviews and novel research in a number of historically-oriented fields, including archaeology, anthropology, ethnography, paleoecology, zoology, botany, history, and geography. Pantropocene is partnered with the School of Archaeology at the University of the Philippines, and the project has ongoing collaborations with researchers at Ateneo de Manila and other research institutions across Eurasia and the United States.
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