The biodiversity crisis, the wild and the archaeological imagination

2025/12/10 by Anna Collar · 1 voice
Arts and Humanities · Social Sciences · #Amazonian Archaeology and Ethnohistory #Environmental, Ecological, and Cultural Studies #Archaeology and Rock Art Studies

paper · pdf · doi:10.15184/aqy.2025.10253

Abstract

Global biodiversity is decreasing at an alarming rate, and Britain is now one of the most nature-depleted countries on the planet. This matters to archaeologists as it places limitations on our personal experience of ‘nature’ and damages the collective archaeological imagination, diluting our capacity to envisage the richness and diversity of the past worlds we seek to understand. Here, the author argues that we must learn, from contemporary biodiversity projects, animate Indigenous worldviews and enmeshed human-nonhuman ecosystems, to rewild our minds—for the sake of the past worlds we study and the future worlds that our narratives help shape.

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