Rewilding later prehistory

Publications

Roushannafas, T., Baker, P., Campbell, G., Jenkins, E., Parker Wooding, J., Pelling, R., Vander Linden, M., Worley, F. and Cooper, A. 2024 Digitally Enlightened or Still in the Dark? Establishing a Sector-Wide Approach to Enhancing Data Synthesis and Research Potential in British Environmental Archaeology and Beyond, Internet Archaeology 67. https://doi.org/10.11141/ia.67.7  

Cooper, A., Roushannafas, T., 2023. ‘Rewilding’ Later Prehistory: using palaeoenvironmental evidence to reveal the ‘wonder and enchantment’ of past wildlife, and to showcase archaeology’s central role in future nature recovery. The Archaeologist 119. https://doi.org/10.11588/cifatamag.2023.1.97047 

Talks

Upcoming

Wednesday 20th November 2024. Oxford Archaeology AGM ‘Interactions with the Natural Environment’

Friday 22nd November 2024. Kellogg College, Oxford. ‘Rewilding Later Prehistory: Can prehistory inform our relationships with nature in the present day?’ (Tina Roushannafas) https://www.kellogg.ox.ac.uk/events/archaeology-seminar-3/ 

Wednesday 26th March 2025. Chester History & Archaeology Seminar Series 

Past

Tuesday 19th November 2024. Research seminar, University of Southampton 

Monday 11th November 2024. UHI guest lecture, Sustainability Past and Present courseps://www.biodiversity.ox.ac.uk/research_stories/biodiversity-network-coffee-mornings-michaelmas-term/

Thusday 7th November 2024. Oxford Biodiversity Network coffee morning talk

Monday 7th October 2024. Cambridge Antiquarian Society/Prehistoric Society, McDonald Institute, Cambridge: ‘Rewilding’ later prehistory: Archaeological wildlife and its role in contemporary nature recovery (Anwen Cooper) https://www.camantsoc.org/event/cas-talk-rewilding-later-prehistory-archaeological-wildlife-and-its-role-in-contemporary-nature-recovery/?instance_id=91 

Thursday 26th September 2024. , ALGAO SE Forum (online)

Thursday 20 June 2024. Dorset Natural History and Archaeology Society, Dorset County Museum: ‘Rewilding’ later prehistory: Archaeological wildlife and its role in contemporary nature recovery (Anwen Cooper) https://www.dorsetmuseum.org/event/rewilding-later-prehistory-archaeological-wildlife-and-its-role-in-contemporary-nature-recovery/

Thursday 25 April 2024. CIfA 2024 Conference, Chester: ‘Rewilding’ later prehistory: Shaping a new research landscape from development-led archaeology (Anwen Cooper)

Saturday 16 March 2024. OUDCE Day school, Oxford: Archaeology and Climate Change: Sustained Pasts, Sustainable Futures. ‘‘Rewilding’ later prehistory. Thinking through if and how archaeology can help to address current concerns about ecological change’. (Anwen Cooper)

Friday 8th March 2024. School of Archaeology (University of Oxford) World Archaeology Seminar: ‘The ‘Rewilding’ Later Prehistory Project: Humans and ‘the Wild’ in Later Prehistoric Britain‘ (Tina Roushannafas)

Wednesday 28th February 2024. University of Glasgow seminar series: ‘Rewilding’ later prehistory: Archaeological wildlife and its role in contemporary nature recovery’.  https://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/humanities/research/archaeologyresearch/latestnews/headline_1049660_en.html (Anwen Cooper)

Wednesday 22nd November 2023. OA AGM: Archaeology and climate change (Anwen Cooper and Tina Roushannafas)

Wednesday 30th September 2023. 29th European Association of Archaeologists Meeting, Belfast: ‘Rewilding’ later prehistoric Britain: Hunting and Gathering ‘Big Data’ on Prehistoric Entanglements with Wildlife (Tina Roushannafas)

Saturday 1st April 2023. Integrated Microscopy Approaches in Archaeobotany. University of Reading: ‘Rewilding’ later prehistory. Finding a niche for Environmental Archaeology in the Anthropocene (Tina Roushannafas)

Sunday 4 December 2022. Association for Environmental Archaeologists Annual Conference 2022, University of Glasgow: ‘Rewilding’ later prehistory: what can archaeological wildlife tell us about human-landscape relations now and in the past? (Anwen Cooper and Ruth Pelling)5