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Mette Lovschal @lovschal.bsky.social · 2d

Anwen Cooper & Tina Roushannafas @ox.ac.uk have just published a beautiful piece in Archaeological Dialogues @universitypress.cambridge.org on how archaeological work can realign to meet the needs of pressing environmental agendas and be part of #nature #recovery projects. doi.org/10.1017/S138...

People and time in nature: Positioning archaeology in an ecoclimate crisis | Archaeological Dialogues | Cambridge Core

People and time in nature: Positioning archaeology in an ecoclimate crisis

doi.org

Mette Lovschal @lovschal.bsky.social · 9d

Here's an interesting #heathland #restoration project relying not only on grazing and burning but also "cutting scrub and gorse by hand, forestry work, bracken control, foraging heather and creating bare ground by scraping". #ERC_ANTHEA @nationaltrust.org.uk
www.nationaltrust.org.uk/visit/hampsh...

Restoring heathland on Ludshott Common

Find out how we're restoring heathland habitats and protecting wildlife at Ludshott Common, including the reintroduction of grazing cattle.

www.nationaltrust.org.uk

NiCHE Canada @nichecanada.bsky.social · 12d

New Master in Public Environmental Humanities - @greenhouseuis.net

2-year masters program for students who want to study today’s environmental challenges as deeply rooted in culture and history

Info sessions on November 11 & 21

niche-canada.org/2025/11/01/n...

#envhum #envhist #envstudies

New Master in Public Environmental Humanities

2-year masters program for students who want to study today’s environmental challenges as deeply rooted in culture and history

niche-canada.org

Mette Lovschal @lovschal.bsky.social · 16d

News from the Fens: @antiquity.ac.uk www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Fenscapes: archaeology, natural heritage and environmental change in the Fens of eastern England | Antiquity | Cambridge Core

Fenscapes: archaeology, natural heritage and environmental change in the Fens of eastern England

www.cambridge.org

EarthworkBec @earthworkbec.bsky.social · 20d

#LandscapeArchaeology 🏺
| projektwald.hypotheses.org/527

HigherJobz @higherjobz.bsky.social · 22d

#PhD in #Palaeoecology – University of Bern, Switzerland
Fully funded position under SNF project CIVES
Eligibility: MSc in #Ecology, Environmental Sciences, or Geography
Deadline: 28 Nov 2025
Details: higherjobz.com/phd-palaeoec...

#PhDPosition #EuropeJobs #AcademicJobs @izb-unibern.bsky.social

Fully Funded PhD in Palaeoecology at University of Bern | HigherJobz

Apply for a fully funded PhD in Palaeoecology at the University of Bern, Switzerland. Explore climate, land use, and vegetation history.

higherjobz.com

Mette Lovschal @lovschal.bsky.social · 22d

This one looks attractive and I'd be curious to know who gets the position #palynology #palaeoecology
higherjobz.com/postdoctoral...

Postdoctoral Research in Palynology – Bern | HigherJobz

Apply for a Postdoctoral Research position in Palynology and Palaeoecology at the University of Bern, Switzerland. Deadline: 28 Nov 2025

higherjobz.com

Antiquity Journal @antiquity.ac.uk · 23d

In the Nordic Bronze Age, bronze acquisition networks and the the sun's movement were tied together in cosmology, with barrows often aligned with the sun and wheels, wagons, ships and sun symbols often associated with each other in rock art 5/6

🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...

Map of Neolithic barrows in Jutland, Denmark parallel to a historical road.

Dolly Jørgensen @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social · 24d

The journal Environmental Humanities is still looking for midcareer/senior #envhum scholars interested in becoming a co-editor-in-chief from January 2026. You can apply as an individual and we'll find an appropriate co-editor match for you.

See environmentalhumanities.org

Environmental Humanities – A journal published by Duke University Press

environmentalhumanities.org

Mette Lovschal @lovschal.bsky.social · Oct 9

Are you going to be our new colleague at @au.dk @auarcher.bsky.social? Full professorship in #archaeology, deadline November 9.

international.au.dk/about/profil...

Full Professorship(s) in Archaeology - Vacancy at Aarhus University

Vacancy at School of Culture and Society - Department of Heritage Studies, Aarhus University

international.au.dk

Mette Lovschal @lovschal.bsky.social · Oct 8

Today was the opening day of The #Celtic World - Europe's Lost Legacy on display at Moesgaard, Aarhus, Denmark. With loans from 24 European museums, the exhibition is beyond spectacular. Go see it!
www.moesgaardmuseum.dk/kommende-uds...

Mette Lovschal @lovschal.bsky.social · Sep 10

Paper out by Shumon Hussain and Monika Stobiecka on conviviality thinking in archaeology and heritage landscapes. Anthropogenic #heathlands, modified for millennia by wildlife and livestock & fire regimes could be another example of a deep past ecology of #multispecies co-existence, co-shaping.

Convivial Heritage: A Disruptive Archaeology Of Species Coexistence | Archaeological Dialogues | Cambridge Core

Convivial Heritage: A Disruptive Archaeology Of Species Coexistence

www.cambridge.org

Shumon T. Hussain @shumon.bsky.social · Sep 3

I am looking for a multispecies archaeologist with a strong theoretical and interpretive profile to join my group (100%, 3 years): uni.koeln/2E7CR

Deadline: 30.09.2025.
Apply here: uni.koeln/ZQMKA ("Wiss2508-21")

@nakedprimate.bsky.social @mesh-research-hub.bsky.social @unicologne.bsky.social

Royal Society Publishing @royalsocietypublishing.org · Aug 27

This #PhilTransB issue brings together the major elements of a theory of human #evolution and #sustainability on Earth. It shows how diverse theories and approaches help to understand the past, present and future evolution of the #Anthropocene. Read more: royalsocietypublishing.org/toc/rstb/202...

EASLCE @easlce.bsky.social · Aug 27

#CFP: "Climate, arts, and activism: Critical inter- and transdisciplinary perspectives" for ACME: An International Journal for Critical Geographies (ed. Y. Schmidt, S. Thieme, M. Winkel)

Deadline: 15th of October 2025

Info: networks.h-net.org/group/announ...

#ecolit #ecocriticism #envhum #envhist

Call - Special Issue - Climate, arts, and activism | H-Net

We wish to draw your attention to a new special issue we are guest editing in the fully open access (and no author fees) journal ACME: An International Journal for Critical Geographies on the topic of...

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Mette Lovschal @lovschal.bsky.social · Jun 27

This symposium looks interesting!

Climate Havens: Humanistic Perspectives on Resilience, Migration, and Resources Symposium | H-Net

CALL FOR PAPERSClimate Havens: Humanistic Perspectives on Resilience, Migration, and Resources SymposiumUniversity of Rochester and Rochester Institute of Technology, April 16-17, 2026We invite papers...

networks.h-net.org

Mette Lovschal @lovschal.bsky.social · Jun 2

Toad comeback in recent heathland conservation project

Natterjack toad makes 'wonderful' comeback at national park

It is the first time natterjack toads have been recorded breeding at the Blackmoor site in 50 years.

www.bbc.com

Mette Lovschal @lovschal.bsky.social · May 30

Check out this special issue on "plant humanities".
Deadline August 1 2025.

#envhum #planthumanities #envhist #ecolit #ecocriticism

EASLCE @easlce.bsky.social · May 27

#CFP: "Plant Humanities". International Journal of Contemporary Humanities.

Deadline for full articles: August 1, 2025

Full call: www.amkrpub.com/ijch/call_fo...

#envhum #planthumanities #envhist #ecolit #ecocriticism

Poster for the CFP, featuring a a green cell-like blob on a lighter green background.

EASLCE @easlce.bsky.social · May 27

#CFP: "Plant Humanities". International Journal of Contemporary Humanities.

Deadline for full articles: August 1, 2025

Full call: www.amkrpub.com/ijch/call_fo...

#envhum #planthumanities #envhist #ecolit #ecocriticism

Mette Lovschal @lovschal.bsky.social · May 20

No#fence collars are becoming increasingly popular as a new grazing management technology, making the use of traditional fences redundant. Will this also be the end of traditional forms of human-livestock and -landscape management practices such as herding?

New technology to enhance landscape management

Lancashire Wildlife Trust has started a new research initiative that will change how landscapes are managed.

uk.news.yahoo.com

Mette Lovschal @lovschal.bsky.social · May 2

250 ha #heathland restoration in The New Forest National Park as part of creating mosaics of varied and interconnected ecosystems: www.countryfile.com/wildlife/res...

Smooth snakes, adders and sand lizards: UK national park to create huge haven for rare reptiles | Countryfile.com

Conservationists are enhancing 250 hectares of heathland – an area roughly the size of 350 football pitches.

www.countryfile.com

Mette Lovschal @lovschal.bsky.social · Apr 23

Check out this position at Lyngheisenteret in Norway. A fantastic place that has played a key role in disseminating human-heathland relations and ancient culture-historical landscape practices. Deadline May 4th
www.jobbnorge.no/ledige-still...

#HumanDimension #EnvHis #sustainability #nature

Fagansvarlig Kystlynghei (277638) | Museumssenteret i Hordaland

Stillingstittel: Fagansvarlig Kystlynghei (277638), Arbeidsgiver: Museumssenteret i Hordaland, Søknadsfrist: søndag 4. mai 2025

www.jobbnorge.no

Felix Riede @felixthehauskat.bsky.social · Mar 31

Interested in humans from a macro-ecological/macro-archaeological perspective? Here's the right postdoc for you international.au.dk/about/profil... - deadline tomorrow April 1st at 2359 CEST!

2-yr postdoc on human macroecology in a functional trait perspective Aarhus University (re-advertisement) - Vacancy at Aarhus University

Vacancy at School of Culture and Society - Department of Heritage Studies, Aarhus University

international.au.dk

Mette Lovschal @lovschal.bsky.social · Mar 31

This paper just landed on my desk, dealing with the #historical dynamics of socioecological 'traps':
link.springer.com/article/10.1...

- a really neat parallel to our writings on deep-time trajectories of entrapment:
rai.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

The logics of enclosure: deep‐time trajectories in the spread of land tenure boundaries in late prehistoric northern Europe

Invasive schemes involving the erection of land tenure boundaries are currently spreading quickly across vast areas throughout the globe, turning former unfenced forests and grasslands into closed-of...

rai.onlinelibrary.wiley.com

Mette Lovschal @lovschal.bsky.social · Mar 5

This week, I am featuring in a podcast on a deep-time perspective on #heathlands, fences and landscape-based communities by Mads Flinterup, Hedeselskabet. You can listen to it here (in Danish): www.spreaker.com/podcast/hede...

Hedeselskabet

www.spreaker.com

Mette Lovschal @lovschal.bsky.social · Feb 20

Super interesting discussion format - extended dialogues - at Arkitektskolen, Aarhus, DK organised by Heidi Merrild & Lotte Bjerregaard Jensen: aarch.dk/acrb-extende.... Check it out! Today on #regenerative #nature and resource use with panel speakers Rasmus Ejrnæs, Uffe Jørgensen and myself.

Extended Dialogues - Arkitektskolen Aarhus

aarch.dk

Mette Lovschal @lovschal.bsky.social · Feb 19

f you're looking for a postdoc position in #archaeology this seems to be the perfect place to land:
www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

Extremely interesting, kind and competent team
@uio.no funded by the Norwegian Research Council.

Postdoctoral Fellow in Prehistoric Archaeology (274478) | University of Oslo

Job title: Postdoctoral Fellow in Prehistoric Archaeology (274478), Employer: University of Oslo, Deadline: Thursday, March 20, 2025

www.jobbnorge.no

Mette Lovschal @lovschal.bsky.social · Feb 13

Fresh from the press: "Agropastoral possibilism and the trajectorial affordances of Danish inland heaths" in @JRAI by sharp Zac Caple and myself. About #deep-time #entrapment in the relationship between pastoralism, swidden agriculture and manuring:
rai.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Agropastoral possibilism and the trajectorial affordances of Danish inland heaths: a study of deep‐time entrapment

History does not unfold along a single trajectory, and yet the socioecological configuration of landscapes may narrow the directions history can take. This article develops a framework for assessing ...

rai.onlinelibrary.wiley.com

Mette Lovschal @lovschal.bsky.social · Feb 12

Our conference A place for the heathlands? ended on Friday with a happy crowd. Discussions will continue on
heathland.place
projects.au.dk/anthropogeni...
and #ERC_ANTHEA

Mette Lovschal @lovschal.bsky.social · Feb 10

New sharp and inspiring study out from @drsueoosthuizen.bsky.social on #collective governance and #landscapes.

Dr Sue Oosthuizen @drsueoosthuizen.bsky.social · Feb 9

How do ancient #traditions of #collective governance help societies weather unpredictable change?

🎺Just published! 🎺

'Panarchy & #commons across the longue durée’

Open access via heathland.place/panarchy-and....

📷 Minchinhampton Common (c) Geoff March, Stroud Times, 12.5.2023

White and brown cattle resting on grassland, views over distant hills.

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