- Michael Allen
- Jennifer Colten
- Matthew Fluharty
- Gavin Kroeber
- Natalie Mueller
- Lynn Peemoeller
- Robert N. Spengler
- William Taylor
- Jesse Vogler
Midway Meeting St. Louis
Documentation of the Public Symposium, Transect Walk, and Exhibition Opening on March 10, 2019
How are local histories inscribed into the environment? At the “Midway Meeting,” project partners examined the multiple temporalities and social realities present in St. Louis and its adjacent regions.
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Exhibition Opening at G-CADD, ST. Louis
Reflection, Climate change, Water, Epistemology, Debate
- contributionJesse Vogler
Transect Walk: Cahokia Mounds to Fairmont City
The entire history of American settlement experienced in one afternoon stroll.
Reflection, Water, Flood, Urbanism, Infrastructure, Transportation, Commodities, Anthropology, History
- contributionMichael Allen
How Not What—Power, Time & Landscape
“Property is the worst form of pollution.” A lecture performance on the landscapes of the American Bottom.
Reflection, Pollution, Landscape
- contributionRobert N. Spengler
Plant Domestication and Dispersal
How did the agricultural practices of prehistoric civilizations contribute to the environmental conditions of the Anthropocene?
Field Work, Agriculture, History, Urbanism
- contributionNatalie Mueller
Understanding the North American Lost Crops
Which kind of ancient crops were cultivated by prehistoric civilizations in eastern North America? Archaeologist Natalie Mueller pursues this question in her research on “lost crops”
Field Study, Agriculture, Deep time, History, Human-environment relations
- contributionJennifer Colten, Matthew Fluharty
Monsanto Town
In what ways is the Anthropocene embodied in communities and everyday life? An introduction to the conflicting histories of Sauget, Illinois, formerly known as Monsanto Town.
Case Study, Agriculture, History, Capitalism
- contributionLynn Peemoeller
Eating the Anthropocene
How can we encounter ourselves in the Anthropocene? A study in the deconstruction of cows and an introduction to “The Lost Crops of America” project.
Field Study, Extinction, Biodiversity, Agriculture, Human-animal relations, Human-environment relations, Socio-ecological design, History, Deep time, Metabolism, Landscape, Food
- contributionJennifer Colten, Jesse Vogler
Significant and Insignificant Mounds: Presentation
What can the mounds of North America—from temples to landfills—tell us about the history of settlement and the anthropogenic condition we inhabit today?
Reflection, Field Study, Deep time, History, Urbanism, Landscape, Epistemology
- contributionJürgen Renn, Bernd M. Scherer, Maria Wilke
Anthropocene. Archaeology of the Present
Opening words to the symposium and the Anthropocene River project.
Reflection, Anthropos, Water, Ecology, Climate change, Epistemology
