FORAGER
Alternative trajectories for human demographic growth in pre-agricultural societies
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FORAGER is a European reseach council (ERC) funded Synergy project that will investigate alternative trajectories for human demographic growth in temperate hunter-gatherer-fishers during the Holocene.
FORAGER is a European reseach council (ERC) funded Synergy project that will investigate alternative trajectories for human demographic growth in temperate hunter-gatherer-fishers during the Holocene.
Over the next 6 years, we will examine the causes and consequences of ‘booms’ in forager populations, often comparable in scale to those experienced by early agricultural societies. We will focus on four tempearate regions in the Northern Hemisphere with rich records of forager archaeology: Japan, the Baltic, the Pacific North-west, and the Northeasten North America. We will co-create new knowledge with our Indigenous partners to elucidate existential possibilities long eclipsed by the recent historical penetration of industrialised farming into much of the temperate world.
Over the next 6 years, we will examine the causes and consequences of ‘booms’ in forager populations, often comparable in scale to those experienced by early agricultural societies. We will focus on four tempearate regions in the Northern Hemisphere with rich records of forager archaeology: Japan, the Baltic, the Pacific North-west, and the Northeasten North America. We will co-create new knowledge with our Indigenous partners to elucidate existential possibilities long eclipsed by the recent historical penetration of industrialised farming into much of the temperate world.
FORAGER will be led by four PIs - Oliver Craig , Enrico Crema , Peter Jordan, and Anna Prentiss - uniting core expertise in biomolecular archaeology, statistical modelling, cultural evolution and settlement archaeology. We will be working in a team of 37 scientists from nine institutions across seven countries. The project will examine lines of evidence across scales, from food crusts in pottery to global-scale climate simulation models. Our project will be organised into seven distinct working packages, looking at different aspects of prehistoric hunter-gatherer lifeways, from subsistence to social organisation.
FORAGER will be led by four PIs - Oliver Craig , Enrico Crema , Peter Jordan, and Anna Prentiss - uniting core expertise in biomolecular archaeology, statistical modelling, cultural evolution and settlement archaeology. We will be working in a team of 37 scientists from nine institutions across seven countries. The project will examine lines of evidence across scales, from food crusts in pottery to global-scale climate simulation models. Our project will be organised into seven distinct working packages, looking at different aspects of prehistoric hunter-gatherer lifeways, from subsistence to social organisation.
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