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Uncovering the Multibiome Environmental and Earth System Legacies of Past Human Societies

2024; Annual Reviews; Volume: 49; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1146/annurev-environ-112321-101257

1545-2050

Patrick Roberts, Victor Lery Caetano Andrade, Michael Fisher, Rebecca Hamilton, Rachel Rudd, Freg Stokes, Noel Amano, Mariya Antonosyan, Andrew Dugmore, David Max Findley, Verónica Zuccarelli Freire, Laura Pereira Furquim, Michael‐Shawn Fletcher, George Hambrecht, Phoebe Heddell-Stevens, Victor Iminjili, Deepak Kumar Jha, Gopesh Jha, Rahab N. Kinyanjui, S. Yoshi Maezumi, Kathleen D. Morrison, Jürgen Renn, Janelle Stevenson, Ricarda Winkelmann, Michael J. Ziegler, Vernon L. Scarborough, Sam White, Dagomar Degroot, Adam S. Green, Christian Isendahl,

Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies

It has been argued that we have now entered the Anthropocene, a proposed epoch in which humans are having a dominant impact on the Earth system. While some geologists have sought to formalize the Anthropocene as beginning in the mid-twentieth century, its social, geophysical, and environmental roots undoubtedly lie deeper in the past. In this review, we highlight the ways in which human activities across the major biomes of our planet significantly altered parts of the Earth system prior to the Industrial Age. We demonstrate ways in which novel, multidisciplinary approaches can provide detailed insights into long-term human–environment–Earth system interactions. We argue that there is clear evidence for lasting Earth system legacies of pre-Industrial human societies and that archaeology, paleoecology, and historical ecology can provide important, practical insights to help navigate current and future relationships with the planet in more equitable and sustainable ways.