3 Historical Ecology: Using What Works to Cross the Divide William J. Meyer and Carole L. Crumley 1 IN TR O D U C T I O N In this contribution, we advance historical ecology as one of a number of approaches to new studies of the first millennium bc. Crumley and her colleagues have elaborated this cluster of concepts over thirty years of fieldwork in southern Burgundy, integrating the methods and theories of several disciplines. In the later part of this essay, we provide a guideline for how a research team might organize a historical ecological project (in this case, a study of Atlantic Europe during the first millennium bc). We intend this outline to fill a gap in the current literature by providing a ‘scalable’ model for future studies in historical ecology; one useful at any number of geographic and/or temporal scales. 2 W H A T IS H I S T O R I C A L EC O L O G Y ? Historical ecology is a cluster of concepts that offers a holistic, practical perspective to the study of environmental change. It may be applied to spatial and temporal frames at any resolution, but finds particularly rich data sources at what is loosely termed the ‘landscape’ scale—where human activity and biophysical systems interact and archaeological, historical, and ethnographic records are plentiful. The term assumes a definition of ecology that includes humans as a component of all ecosystems, and a definition of history that encompasses both the history of the Earth system as well as the social and physical past of our species (Balée 2006; Crumley 2007b). Historical ecology is predicated upon the assumption that it is possible to construct an evidence-validated narrative of landscape transformation resulting from the continual interaction between (spatially and temporally) diverse human activities and changing environmental conditions. Historical ecology is a term that may not be familiar to archaeologists, but its salient characteristics will be recognized as those which undergird most archaeological practice. Chief among these are emphases on transdisciplinarity and on collaborative research. Historical ecology perforce draws on a broad 110 Meyer and Crumley spectrum of concepts, methods, theories, and evidence, taken from the biological and physical sciences, ecology, the social sciences, and the humanities. For example, inasmuch as ethnographically documented traditional environmental knowledge (TEK) is equally valued with science, historical ecology draws from cultural ecology. Recently, theoretical ecology has also contributed to its development with a sophisticated approach to the study of complex adaptive systems termed ‘resilience’ (Berkes, Colding, and Folke 2003; Gunderson and Holling 2002; Holling 1973). The independent data sets derived from the standard procedures of these various disciplines provide critical ‘cross-checks’ upon one another, revealing patterns of association to researchers and often yielding further intriguing questions. Historical ecology is a framework designed to assist collaboration among differently trained researchers and other stakeholders who could be impacted by a project, including the residents of the area under study. This framework provides a kind of intellectual ‘contact zone’ (Pratt 1991) in which these diverse communities can exchange information about the past and present of a physical region and discuss various courses of action for its future. As in any contact zone, such exchanges require a strong commitment to dialogue, extensive translation, and significant efforts at coordination. 2.1 The development of historical ecology Edward S. Deevey, who directed the Historical Ecology Project at the University of Florida in the early 1970s, introduced the term ‘historical ecology’. Deevey’s son Brian finds the first mention of historical ecology in his father’s publications of 1964. His father used the term ‘palaeo-ecology’ in letters home to his parents as early as 1936, and the younger Deevey speculates that his father later switched to historical ecology as a more popular-sounding equivalent. In the early 1980s, historian Lester J. Bilsky solicited the contributions of anthropologists, a human ecologist, an economist, and fellow historians for Historical Ecology: Essays on environment and social change (1980). Not long after, anthropologist Alice Ingerson organized a session on historical ecology at the 1984 annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association. This session addressed the chasm between cultural (e.g. nature as metaphor) and environmental (e.g. energy cycle) studies within anthropology, and explored political economy and social history approaches in the discipline. By the late 1980s, Crumley (Crumley and Marquardt 1987)—drawing on anthropology, archaeology, history, and the biophysical sciences—identified historical ecology as an approach to the study of regional change. Later, she collaborated with an evolutionary ecologist, archaeologists, and anthropologists to produce the edited volume Historical Ecology: Cultural knowledge and changing landscapes (Crumley 1994). Independent of Crumley and her colleagues’ work, William Balée and colleagues, working in South America, enriched the traditional cultural ecology approach to include history. Balée organized a conference of anthropologists, historians, and geographers at Tulane University in 1994; the papers were published as Advances in Historical Ecology (Balée 1998). Historical Ecology: Using What Works to Cross the Divide 111 Working together since the mid-1990s, Balée and Crumley have furthered the approach with the creation of two fruitful publishing venues for historical ecology. The first was a Columbia University Press series which produced seven volumes. Their current series focuses on applications of historical ecology and is published by Left Coast Press. 2.2 A conceptual toolbox As Bruce Winterhalder noted in his contribution to Historical Ecology, ‘historical ecology might mean several things: a commitment to certain theoretical principles, a methodology or form of investigation, a predilection to certain topics, or investigation within a framework provided by a certain set of concepts’ (Winterhalder 1994: 18). The question of how to think about historical ecology has presented itself time and again, even bedevilling us as we began work on this essay. At varying points, practitioners have thought to describe this creature as a discipline, as a method, and as a theory (or body of theories). We submit that none of these labels is quite appropriate. A discipline might be thought of as a branch of knowledge, instruction, or learning with particular perspectives arrived at and reproduced through regular, systematic action. Scientific disciplines are recognizable in the routinized activities of their practitioners, in the equipment that they enrol, in the material or phenomena that they examine, as well as in the regularized nature of their research questions, their hypotheses, and the results that they obtain. By contrast, practitioners of historical ecology are far more concerned with ‘using what works’ than with disciplinary routines. Historical ecology not only looks to integrate conclusions from otherwise separate sources, it requires this kind of integration. In this sense, it is not simply transdisciplinary, but poly-disciplinary. The flexibility of thought and action engendered by this poly-disciplinarity leaves the label of ‘discipline’ both imprecise and inadequate to describe historical ecology. For similar reasons, ‘method’ also falls short. If we consider methods to be the regular and systematic procedures and techniques characteristic of a particular discipline, the problem becomes readily apparent. Just as historical ecology draws on several different disciplines in studying a topic, so too does it employ the many different methods offered by them. Without compromising scientific rigour, historical ecology values methodological practicality above formalism. Related to methods are theories. Theories are systematically organized bodies of knowledge applicable in a variety of circumstances. In science, they are systems of assumptions, accepted principles, and procedural rules designed to analyse, predict, or otherwise explain the nature of phenomena being examined. While methods are the means by which scientists interact directly with the world(s) that they study, theories guide this interaction. Researchers adhering to different theories or bodies of theory might choose to utilize the same methods, though perhaps with different expectations and/or explanations of the outcome. The results derived from applying a particular method are then used to expand or revise the theory that directed the analysis. As a conceptual framework which 112 Meyer and Crumley guides how researchers think about and act within the world, ‘theory’ comes close to describing what historical ecology is. Balée is a strong advocate of the notion that historical ecology is a body of theory, identifying ‘a core of interdependent postulates’ that it uses to explain human/biosphere interactions (Balée 1998: 14). While his postulates capture a number of the concerns that lie at the core of historical ecology, Balée overlooks the reality that any single concern might be addressed very differently by researchers from different, firmly established theoretical backgrounds. For example, a gender archaeologist is likely to adopt a far different approach to testing hypotheses than a processual archaeologist. Historical ecology is far more adaptable to the purposes of its practitioners than feminist theory, queer theory, or New Archaeology, each of which tends to demand that its users accept a more rigid set of core principles. This mutability is one of historical ecology’s major strengths, but it is also the quality that most challenges the description of historical ecology as a theory. But having ruled out historical ecology as a discipline, method, or theory, what is left to describe it? Winterhalder’s final option is perhaps the most appropriate: ‘investigation within a framework provided by a certain set of concepts’ (Winterhalder 1994: 18). Concepts are flexible, both in the breadth of their applicability and in the fact that they are given to change. Because of this flexibility, they are particularly useful heuristics whose importance is often overlooked. We see historical ecology as a cluster or ‘toolbox’ of concepts. Ironically, concepts do not go very far or change very much without theory and methods (perhaps explaining why it is so difficult to appropriately describe historical ecology). It is important to understand all at once the concept, the abstract theories that address it, and the practical methods used to explore it. This robust balance is illustrated most simply by a triad of concept, method, and theory, as on the left side of figure 3.1. But this concept-method-theory triad is highly oversimplified. In reality, no single method characterizes any particular theory; no single theory requires any particular method. Further, the same theories and methods—in similar or different combinations—can be used to explore more than one concept. Finally, no concept exists in isolation. The concept–method–theory balance is better envisioned as a meshwork of interdependent relationships, as shown on the right side of Figure 3.1. Historical ecology, with its ‘conceptual toolbox’, is one such meshwork. 2.2.1 Some conceptual tools In what follows, we discuss a few of the tools in this conceptual toolbox. This list is by no means exhaustive and none of these tools exists in isolation. Rather, considerable interconnection exists among the concepts employed by historical ecology. Complex adaptive systems While historical ecology was elaborating a coherent framework, complexity science was developing its own. Complexity science is the transdisciplinary study of complex adaptive systems (CAS). Complex adaptive systems are dynamic, 113 Historical Ecology: Using What Works to Cross the Divide CONCEPT THEORY ME TH OD TH EO RY CO NC EP T OD TH ME CO NC EP T METHOD THEORY THEORY T EP NC CO RY EO TH RY MET HO EO D TH METHOD T EP NC CO TH EO RY CONCEPT OD TH ME METHOD CONCEPT Figure 3.1. The concept–method–theory triad and meshwork. non-linear systems that are not in equilibrium and do not act predictably. These key features distinguish contemporary complex systems thinking from earlier systems theory, which generally assumed that ‘natural’ systems could be modelled with a few key variables and would return to equilibrium after being disturbed. Complexity thinking abandons earlier assumptions, especially in ecology, about equilibrium states and bounded systems (e.g. ecosystems). The exploration of CAS has resulted in the creation/recognition of several new processes and phenomena. The CAS concept thus represents a highly practical ‘multi-tool’ in the historical ecologist’s toolbox. For example, the study of CAS has revealed that unanticipated interactions among a multitude of diverse elements at many temporal and spatial scales can produce novel features within a system. This production of novelty is termed emergence. Further, communication (i.e. information sharing among elements, a characteristic of networks) and system history/ initial conditions have considerable effects on the behaviour of dynamic systems and on the features that emerge within them. These characteristics of CAS— emergence, communication, and sensitivity to system history/initial conditions— correspond with key features of social systems as traditionally recognized, for example: creativity and innovation (emergence); empirical knowledge-sharing through language, writing, and education (communication); and the formative power of traditions, structures and materials, strategies, and habits of mind (system history/initial conditions). The insights that accompany the CAS concept are as appropriate to biophysical systems as they are to social systems. They are particularly well suited to the study of heterogeneous complex systems—networks that incorporate physical, biological, and social elements—like those studied by historical ecology. The largest such complex system that we know is our planet and it has any number of facets with both human and biophysical components, such as anthropogenic 114 Meyer and Crumley climate change, the efficacy of institutions (e.g. hospitals, cities, governments), and global human health. As awareness grows of the human role in global environmental change and the future impacts of these changes on humans, complex-systems thinking will be an important tool that allows critical intraand transdisciplinary collaboration by means of a common vocabulary (Newell et al. 2005). Discourse within and about CAS holds the promise of closing the distance between what C. P. Snow (1959) called the ‘Two Cultures’: the biophysical sciences and the social sciences/humanities. In this, complexity science and CAS not only provide useful conceptual tools to historical ecology, they also share a common set of goals and challenges. Resilience The concept of adaptation, meaning the accommodating response of humans to environmental conditions, was widely adopted by archaeologists and cultural ecologists beginning in the 1950s. It has come under considerable—and justified— criticism in recent years, primarily because it attributes a largely passive role to humans. Since human activities are central to contemporary global environmental change, this relationship must be seen as reciprocal. For a growing number of researchers, adaptation has been replaced by another concept, resilience, with a focus on the characteristics of human systems that do not degrade critical resources. The new Stockholm Resilience Centre is a world leader in applying the concept of resilience to the study of socio-ecological systems, using conceptual frameworks adapted from complexity science (Berkes, Colding, and Folke 2003). Historical ecology offers a pragmatic means of using the past as a laboratory for the study of resilience (cf. Redman 2005). Diversity, region, and scale Understanding resilience involves exploring a suite of interrelated concepts that includes diversity, region, and scale. Diversity is the variation of elements within a system. ‘Biodiversity’ is the number of species within a given biome. Similarly, ‘ecological diversity’ is the variety of biological communities or ecosystems in a given area. Both kinds of diversity measure the health of biological systems. Archaeologists are familiar with the concept of diversity as our everyday practice involves identifying similarity and difference across space and/or through time. The concept of region is intimately linked to diversity. Regions may be biophysical (e.g. river valleys, climate regimes), historical/sociopolitical (e.g. Burgundy as a political entity), and/or analytical (e.g. a project’s ‘study area’). Noting the geographic distribution of material cultural diversity, archaeologists have deployed diverse theories (e.g. peer–polity interactions, interaction spheres) and methods (e.g. plotting Thiessen polygons) to identify meaningful social ‘regions’ in the past. Critical to an archaeologist’s understanding of such regions is the knowledge that over time some grow, others shrink, and some seem to disappear completely. For example, scholars of the late Bronze and early Iron Ages have often discussed relatively clear distinctions between the Hallstatt ‘provinces’ or ‘zones’ of Western and Central Europe (Arnold 1995; Déchelette 1927; Wells 1980). By the later (i.e. La Tène) Iron Age, the material record appears to show a coalescence of these earlier regions with a concomitant reduction in diversity—a 115 Historical Ecology: Using What Works to Cross the Divide phenomenon that allowed early proponents of European unification to laud the Celts as the ‘first Europeans’ (Crumley 1991; Dietler 1994, 1998). Another example highlights the degree to which regions expand and contract through time. Founded in the mid-fifth century ad, the polity of Burgundy has undergone numerous changes in size and shape. At its largest, the region encompassed the Low Countries and exercised political influence as far east as Austria. By comparison, the Burgundy that we study today appears ‘domesticated’. It remains a centre of agricultural production, but one that has been fractured and entirely enveloped by France. It is much smaller and far less politically influential than in times past. It is not only sociopolitical regions that ‘breathe’. Biophysical regions also expand and contract. In a 1993 article, Crumley examined environmental proxy data to trace the movements of Europe’s three major climatic regimes—Atlantic, Continental, and Mediterranean—over two millennia. As shown in Figure 3.2, she found that the ecotones between these three regimes varied markedly throughout the period. A warm, stable period, the so-called ‘Roman Climate Optimum (RCO)’, began at about 300 bc and lasted until around 300 ad. In an ideal N N E W N E W S E W S S C A M C A M M 500 275 0 C A 500 275 500 Kilometers 0 500 Kilometers 1200 to 300 BC 500 275 0 500 Kilometers 300 BC to AD 300 AD 500 to AD 900 N E W S RANGE OF CLIMATIC VARIATION Late Holocene Temperate-Subtropical 500 275 0 500 Kilometers Figure 3.2. Variation in three major climatic regimes—Atlantic (A), Continental (C) and Mediterranean (M)—from 1200 bc to 900 ce (adapted from Crumley 1993). 116 Meyer and Crumley demonstration of the intimate connection between climate and human activity, the RCO likely pushed prime agricultural land as far north as the Baltic Coast and the shores of Britain. Not surprisingly, this is the period of Roman expansion out of the Mediterranean Basin. When cooler and more variable weather returned to dominance after 300 ad, the Romans in the Western Empire fell back southward, making way for (or being pushed by) populations whose means of production were better suited to the cooler, more temperate Atlantic and Continental regimes. Clearly the breathing of biophysical regions has an impact on the size and shape of sociopolitical regions. Recent realizations about the human role in producing global climate change make it clear that the opposite also holds true. As Edith Pielou reminded us several decades ago (1975), scale defines diversity. We must think of scale both in terms of how systems organize themselves and in terms of how we, in turn, study them. Scale—spatio-temporal, economic, social, and/or political—is of central importance to the archaeologist. It is in addressing this issue that archaeologists describe diversity in the past. If we choose the wrong analytic scale, we may miss critical evidence of similarity or difference. The same is true if we fail to recognize that systems organize themselves at multiple scales which may differ from one another and which may change. Thus, as with regions that breathe, we must be able to work across changing analytic and systemic scales. Risk and vulnerability If the archaeologist’s job is to characterize practices and their distribution in time and space, historical ecologists ask the paired ‘next questions’: what practices led to change in the system, and what system changes led to changes in practice? One way of thinking about how and why the geographic distribution of diversity changes over time is to pose questions of change in terms of risk and vulnerability. Risk is uncertainty about possible undesirable outcomes, and concerns everyone equally; for example, climate change puts all farmers at risk. Vulnerability is the set of circumstances and conditions that increase negative impact for some groups or individuals; for example, if we accept that diversity increases systemic resilience, less-diverse farms and regions are more vulnerable to climate change. But what might an archaeologist do with the concepts of risk and vulnerability? A relatively obvious way of incorporating these concepts might be to view past economic and/or geographic shifts as responses to risk. Such shifts may also evidence how societies overcame or yielded to vulnerability. This understanding is certainly implicit in our discussion of ecotonal and attendant cultural movements above, where different patterns of exploitation seem to have allowed the expansion of particular socio-political regions at different times and under specific climatic conditions.1 Vulnerability in archaeological contexts is the focus of recent ‘Collapse’ literature (Gunn et al. 2004), including geographer Jared Diamond’s (2005) popular book 1 Our characterization in this example is intentionally materialist and evolutionary. Unlike most neo-evolutionary approaches in archaeology, however, historical ecology attempts to look at a broader range of potential selection pressures, adaptive strategies, and the dialectic between these pressures and strategies. For example, historical ecologists recognize that a practice adopted to mitigate risk may, in fact, have devastating environmental effects. Further, historical ecology is not committed to the notions of ‘progress’ that bedevil most neo-evolutionary approaches (Yoffee 2005). Historical Ecology: Using What Works to Cross the Divide 117 of the same name. It is important to remember that while systems of exploitation and/or governance may collapse in response to ecological vulnerability, the people embedded in these systems do not necessarily perish. For example, despite the famous ‘Maya Collapse’ of the eighth to ninth centuries ad, communities of living Maya exist throughout Central America today.2 That populations might be more ecologically resilient than the systems they design is a fact often overlooked by Diamond and other similar authors (see McAnany and Gallareta Negrón 2009). Scholars who wish to investigate risk and vulnerability must keep this complexity in mind. Change and causation In order to understand change in the past, the traditional approach has been to establish a temporally ordered chain of events, termed causation, which allows generalization about the system. But because complex systems are comprised of properties that can change at various temporal and spatial scales and can interact in unanticipated ways, the usual temporal ordering of events cannot describe ‘causal’ interactions among variables. This need not mean that we are doomed to repeat every mistake in human history; instead, it requires a meta-theoretical approach that takes into account the properties of dynamical systems that include humans. Transformational events in complex systems (thresholds) are particularly important; while a clear line of temporal causation is compromised, it is possible to analyse profound changes in the nature of the system (termed a regime shift) by identifying the variables that concatenate to ‘cause’ the change. This is what the French Annales school of history calls conjuncture (‘situation’ or ‘circumstance’): a particular concatenation of conditions and events, some of which are foreseeable and some not. In complex-systems terms, these are tipping points that move the system from one state to another. Physical scientists have long been familiar with this notion of tipping points. Figure 3.3 shows a standard phase transition diagram for water, as it transforms from solid, to liquid, to gas. Fundamental to our discussion of tipping points are the melting and boiling points, fairly brief but crucial moments in phase transition where changes to the overall nature of the system might actually be observed. It may be difficult to understand how this way of conceptualizing physicalchemical systems relates to archaeological examples. Social scientists are, however, quite adept at detecting systemic change in the past. Our ‘phase diagrams’ may look different but, as shown at the bottom of Figure 3.3, we should recognize tipping points as those moments at which new styles, types, phases, and/or cultures emerge. In studying such moments, we often search for the quick-acting (i.e. ‘rapid’) variable that provided the impetus for the transition: the contagious plant disease that rendered a society unable to feed itself, the assassin with a gun 2 We do not wish to suggest that these people are some kind of living relic of the past, preserving their ancestors’ ‘pre-Collapse’ identities. Rather—recognizing that human populations may survive dramatic climatic and cultural shifts, even when archaeological evidence seems to suggest otherwise— these are contemporary global citizens who have a complex biological and social relationship to the Classic Maya. 118 Meyer and Crumley Figure 3.3. Tipping points in the phase transitions of water (top) and in archaeology (bottom). that sparked a World War, or the pair of Atlantic hurricanes that left a disproportionate number of minority families sick and homeless in a large city. But rapid variables are only the most recent arrivals in a series of rapid, not-sorapid, and slow variables within these systems. The plant disease causes system collapse only after agricultural lands have become salinated over the course of decades and after local populations have made the decision to specialize in a limited number of plant crops. The assassin’s bullet only sparks the First World War after the imperial powers of the West have spent centuries building up their militaries, the Austro-Hungarian Empire’s ethnicity policy and divided rule have created generations of animosity between the rulers and the ruled, and after the empire has suffered humiliation in a series of failed revolutions/civil wars. The disproportionate devastation wreaked by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita on the African-American families of New Orleans is made possible only after centuries of racial inequality, decades of human-enhanced climate change, and years of inattention to the city’s flood-control infrastructure. Clearly we cannot understand systemic change by focusing on rapid variables and tipping points Historical Ecology: Using What Works to Cross the Divide 119 alone. Physicists need to study the changes in density undergone by ice, water, and steam precisely when they appear to be stable and unchanged. Similarly, archaeologists—with our close attention to scales of time and space—are perfectly poised to study not only rapid variables, but also the slower, less detectable variables which operate during periods of seeming system stability. Historical ecology enables archaeologists to study such periods of apparent inertia, encouraging us to seek evidence of slow variables in regional and local contexts as well as in other disciplines (e.g. environmental science, botany, geology). Agency Any discussion of causation in the systems of which humans are a part necessarily leads to a conversation about agency. A concern with agency in Western social theory can be traced back at least as far as Marx (e.g. 1978 [1852]), Durkheim (e.g. 1982 [1895], 1995 [1912]), and Weber (e.g. 1978 [1922]), and is in fact significantly older (Dobres and Robb 2000a). The last three decades have seen a revival of agency thinking throughout the social sciences, largely in response to the work of practice theorists Pierre Bourdieu (1977) and Anthony Giddens (1979; 1984). The contributors to the 2000 edited volume Agency in Archaeology (Dobres and Robb 2000b) addressed issues of definition, intentionality, scale, temporality, material culture, politics, ethnocentrism, and the practice of archaeology itself to demonstrate the significant potential of agent-centred perspectives in archaeology. With few exceptions, these authors focused on the agency of human actors, generally in relation to other humans or collections thereof. Where artefacts were discussed, they were most often tools used by one group of people to intervene in the lives of others. Thus, these essays exhibited a conception of artefacts as relatively well-behaved ‘intermediaries’ (sensu Latour 1999) between humans— or, at the outside, between humans and their environments—recalling the work of Appadurai (1986), Kopytoff (1986), and others back to Malinowski (1920, 1922), Boas (1887, 1901), and Tylor (1920 [1871]). In his contribution to Agency in Archaeology, Martin Wobst (2000) took a different approach to the study of agency, admitting that non-human things might interfere in the world in ways not intended by their human creators and that different kinds of objects might exist ‘in reference, in tension, and in tune with one another’ (Wobst 2000: 46). While some archaeologists had long-since expressed a willingness to ascribe some agency to objects (e.g. Clarke 1978), Wobst opened the door for a different kind of agency discussion: one in which non-humans had their own agency and social relationships which were qualitatively similar—differing in kind, not degree—to those of humans. This insight was in line with discussions of non-human agency and its role in human society outside of archaeology, particularly in studies of science and technology (STS) (e.g. Haraway 1991; Pickering 1995, 1997). Actor-Network Theory (ANT) has come to be the branch of STS most often associated with such discussions and Bruno Latour has been one of the most prolific architects of this perspective. Latour describes human society as a complex, interactive, and iterative collective of human and non-human actors; no effective ‘science of the social’ can exist that is not all at once a science of both humans and non-humans (Latour 2005). Further, Latour’s non-human actors are not all well-behaved and passive. Rather, 120 Meyer and Crumley like Wobst, he notes that objects are often ‘mediators’ that produce effects unforeseen by the humans who use them, an emergence that he has referred to as the ‘slight surprise of action’ (Latour 1999: 266).3 In the past decade, a few archaeologists have passed through the door opened by Wobst and others like him. For example, in a cleverly titled article, Chris Gosden (2005) drew on the artefact-focused theories of Clarke (1978) and Gell (1998) to explore the effects that a changing suite of material objects imposed on the lives of Britons as a result of Britain’s incorporation into the Roman Empire. Others have drawn on the work of Latour and his interlocutors. Andrew Martin (2005) attempted to use Latour’s Actor-Network Theory to understand the diversity of Illinois valley Hopewell burial mounds as the material output of particular controversies within the community (or communities) that built them. A more compelling use of Latour has been provided by Peter Whitridge (2004), who traced the profound renegotiation of social scripts engendered by a series of seemingly minor alterations to Inuit harpoon technology. Given that archaeology’s closest sister-disciplines—anthropology and history— have recently rediscovered a theoretical interest in materiality and material culture (e.g. Lubar and Kingery 1993; Miller 2005), studies like those mentioned above would seem to indicate a fruitful conceptual path for archaeology over the next generation (cf. Meskell 2005b, 2005a; Olsen 2003, 2007). If in thinking about non-human ‘objects’ we turn from thinking about artefacts to considering the environment, such studies certainly provide models for exploring the complex ecological collectives/systems of which humans continue to be a part (cf. Ingold 2000). Heterarchy It is important to note that we are emphatically not advocating the return of environmental determinism from archaeology’s past. Humans are not behavioural automatons that respond to the determining stimuli of their environments; nor do they alter the non-human world with impunity or omnipotence. Agency in ecological collectives/systems must be understood as distributed across the human and non-human actors in these systems. All elements ‘act’ (cf. Wobst 2000) in relation to the actions of others. Thus, such systems have no overarching hierarchy of dominant/determining ‘stimulators’ and subordinate ‘responders’. Rather, they are complex heterarchies of interacting elements that may sometimes stimulate and at other times respond; that may sometimes dominate the system and at other times may be dominated. As Crumley has written in the International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences (Crumley 2007a: 468), one of the most promising developments of complex systems research is the concept of heterarchy, ‘which treats the diversity of relationships among system elements and offers a way to think about systemic change in spatial, temporal, and cognitive dimensions’. Originally developed to describe the topology of nervous nets (McCulloch 1945), definitions of heterarchy are remarkably consistent across a vast array of 3 With its emphases on the heterogeneity of system elements, the importance of relationships and interactions between those elements, and the distribution of agency across them, we see ANT as a logical extension of CAS. Historical Ecology: Using What Works to Cross the Divide 121 disciplines including artificial intelligence and computer design (Minsky and Papert 1972), mathematics (Hofstadter 1979), and sociology (Stark 2001). Since the mid-1970s, Crumley has used the term in her anthropological and archaeological work to refer to systems whose elements are unranked, or possess the potential for being ranked in a number of different ways, depending on systemic requirements (Crumley 1979: 144). Heterarchies stand in contrast to hierarchies, but do not replace them; rather the two exist in dialectical relationship with one another. Heterarchy is a corrective to the naturalized characterization of power relations, which conflates hierarchy with order (Crumley 1987; Ehrenreich, Crumley, and Levy 1995). Recently, the disproportionate attention placed on certain groups in the archaeological record has been called into question. For example, in critical essays concerning the disproportionate visibility of ‘chiefs’ (Collis, Ch. 9 this volume) and men (Pope and Ralston, Ch. 17 this volume), participants at the Durham conference called for interpretations of the Bronze and Iron Age past that took account of social heterarchies as well as hierarchies. This call was perhaps most poignantly issued by J. D. Hill, who poses the question: ‘If I ask you to describe later prehistoric societies, do you have to picture them as triangles?’ (Hill, Ch. 10 this volume). It is important to remember that historical ecology extends the concept of heterarchy not only to the material being studied but also to the manner of that study. As a transdisciplinary endeavour, historical ecology recognizes the contribution of many different ‘kinds’ of researcher and ‘types’ of data. Correlating the contributions of these researchers and integrating their data represent two of the biggest challenges of an historical ecological approach but also account for the richness of the understandings yielded. 3 EM P L O Y I N G T H E T O O L S O F HI S T O R I C A L E C OL OG Y: AT L A N TI C EU R O P E I N TH E F IR S T M IL L E NN IU M BC A number of case studies in historical ecology demonstrate the utility and application of these and other conceptual tools (e.g. Balée and Erickson 2006; Bauer 2003; Cormier 2003; Lentz 2000; Rival 2002). We do not seek here to provide another such case study. Rather, we wish to provide a guideline for how a research team might organize this kind of project (recognizing that useful information about research design and implementation is often ‘black-boxed’ in moretraditional case studies). Accordingly, we present a historical ecology research design to: (1) trace the role of global and local environmental change as a driver of cultural change in Atlantic Europe during the first millennium bc, and (2) determine the possibility that this cultural change in turn drove further environmental change. While we hope that the next generation of archaeological research will incorporate historical ecology at such broad spatio-temporal scales, we have attempted here to present a ‘scalable’ guideline, equally appropriate for projects that examine finer scales of time and space. 122 Meyer and Crumley 3.1 Questions of scale At the outset, two questions of scale need to be addressed. The first is a question of spatial scale. While archaeologists are quite effective in dealing with large time intervals, we tend to be less comfortable thinking across expanses of space, like across the whole of Atlantic Europe. Consider, for example, the pains taken to convince archaeologists to work at the landscape or regional scale rather than on single sites (e.g. Binford 1983; Crumley and Marquardt 1990; Dunnell 1992; Dunnell and Dancey 1983; Foley 1981; Marquardt and Crumley 1987; Schiffer 1972, 1976, 1983; Stafford and Hajic 1992; Thomas 1975; Zvelebil, Green, and Macklin 1992). What we propose here is a similar shift, from the landscape/ regional scale to that of the macro-region. While daunting, we are convinced that in-depth analyses—not summary treatments—on the macro-regional scale represent the future of archaeology. Such analyses are made possible by recent advances in communications (e.g. email, videoconferencing) and data management/ analysis (e.g. geographic information systems: GIS) technologies. Operational models for this kind of study might be found in fledgling international projects that explore the relationship between society and global climate change, like the Integrated History of People on Earth (IHOPE) project. The second question that must be addressed involves the human scale of this study. No matter how broadly trained or experienced, there is no way that a lone scholar or small team could complete this kind of research. As we have noted, historical ecology is a transdisciplinary approach. Archaeologists are generally familiar with collaborative projects and recognize that one of the most effective ways to do transdisciplinary work is by enrolling specialists from a number of disciplines into a single heterarchical research team. Realizing a project of the magnitude that we propose here requires a similarly broad enrolment. 3.2 Operational principles A set of operational principles (in addition to the conceptual tools outlined above) guide our research design. These principles include: a commitment to begin with a research design constructed by all collaborating scholars and evaluated/supported by relevant stakeholders4 who jointly decide central questions, elucidate desired outcomes, and plan the datagathering, data-merging, and interpretive phases of the project a commitment to work with both quantitative and qualitative empirical data a commitment to integrate empirical knowledge (both academic and nonacademic) in a fashion which privileges neither and attempts to translate each to the other a commitment to employ data collected using ‘best practice’ protocols for each relevant discipline 4 ‘Stakeholders’ include representatives of the non-academic community who actually live in the area to be studied. Historical Ecology: Using What Works to Cross the Divide 123 a willingness to keep independent from one another these various lines of evidence until such time as discipline-based data gathering is complete, but also to keep researchers themselves in constant dialogue a willingness to see conclusions about the history of a region constantly modified or reversed by new, evidence-based interpretation a recognition that shifts of knowledge about a region tend to have historical, material effects in the region a recognition that evidential gaps (both spatial and temporal) raise questions about the extent of extrapolation, leading to questions of scale and reliability a recognition that designers’ decisions about temporal and spatial parameters must be tied both to desired outcomes and to available information a recognition that ‘baselines’ are very important and have the potential to introduce errors into later interpretations. These principles underlie any well-designed historical ecological inquiry and are fundamental to considerations of data types/sources, methods of integrating these data, and approaches to interpreting them once correlated. 3.3 Data types Copious data exist which, taken together, could shed light upon the mutuo-causal relationship(s) between climate change and human activity during the first millennium bc. These data come in a number of forms, derive from several sources, and describe varying spatio-temporal scales. They have been generated by experts from a number of backgrounds, all of whom should be consulted as stakeholders in our project. In bringing stakeholders together, new categories of pertinent information emerge in addition to those that we outline below. 3.3.1 Biophysical data An essential class of data to be integrated into our project are biophysical and palaeoclimatological data; proxies that have traditionally been collected by experts in the earth sciences, zoology, and botany. Although such data have generally been considered ‘natural’, many now recognize a significant and long-term human influence on what is ‘natural’ (see e.g. Raffles 2002). At the very least, these data describe the changing stage upon which human action took place in the past. The biophysical and palaeoclimatological data that we seek to use—like all of the data that we examine—include both qualitative and quantitative information and describe a number of different spatial and temporal scales. Some examples are: geomorphologic data (including bedrock geology, soils, topography, and water regime/hydrology) ice cores palaeontology (i.e. evidence of past plant and animal communities) pollen and phytolith cores dendrochronology. 124 Meyer and Crumley 3.3.2 Anthropogenic data Complementing these ‘natural’ data is a group of human-related data. These anthropogenic data often derive from two distinct disciplinary domains: archaeology and ethnohistory. Critical to a historical ecological perspective is the realization that these domains are not separate; that people dwell in the landscapes designed by earlier populations, modifying them to suit their own needs (see e.g. Bender 1998, 2002; Bradley 2002; Bradley and Williams 1998). The ‘archaeological’ and the ‘ethnohistoric’ impact one another constantly and it is impossible to consider one without the other. While we can focus our attention on a particular period, we cannot completely bracket out earlier or later periods from our work. Archaeological data that we seek to use include: bioanthropological data (across various spatial and temporal scales, at the level of the individual, the family, the household, and/or the population) palaeodietary data landscape (i.e. ‘built’ environment) data household data technological/artefactual data archaeometric data. We complement these archaeological data with several kinds of ethnohistoric data, including: geopolitical data land-use data trauma data ‘fictional’/folkloric data (e.g. barrows as faerie ‘sidhes’)5 historic excavation data. Important to these ethnohistoric data is the contribution of traditional environmental knowledge (TEK). As several archaeologists have demonstrated (e.g. Bender 1998; Bender, Hamilton, and Tilley 2007; Schmidt 1994), the current occupants of the landscapes that we study have their own encounters, experiences, interpretations, and interests that should not be overlooked. 3.4 Integrating and interpreting the data The types and sources of data suggested above are perhaps not surprising, given that archaeologists typically employ most of them. What may be surprising are the spatial and temporal scales that we seek to cover. Once all of these data are amassed, a research team is left with the Herculean task of integrating them into a coherent model of human–land interaction over vast expanses of space and time. 5 People’s ‘abstract’ beliefs about a landscape generally impact their material practice on/within that landscape. Historical Ecology: Using What Works to Cross the Divide 125 The spatial extent we propose here becomes especially problematic to the process of producing such a model, as it means enrolling expertise not only from diverse disciplines, but also from a number of nations. Silvia Tomášková (1995, 2005) has shown that even within the single discipline of archaeology, researchers from different national traditions working with the same material might produce markedly different interpretations of that material. Clearly, our project necessitates sustained efforts at translation, both among disciplines and within them. As Meyer has suggested elsewhere (2004), translation within a discipline not only involves converting text from one language to another; but also communicating the assumptions and processes that underlay the production of knowledge in one place to colleagues working in another. 3.4.1 Project organization and sequence We suggest two important measures might facilitate the processes of translation and data integration. The first is the adoption of an organizational plan containing workgroups focusing on single types of data (e.g. soils, technological change) nested within broader clusters of closely related disciplines (e.g. biophysical, anthropogenic). The workgroups should not be seen as isolated entities, however, and should be encouraged to consult with one another and/or share members. Similarly, the clusters should seek to integrate the research of the workgroups that comprise them, but should also maintain constant dialogue with other clusters. This organizational plan is illustrative of how heterarchical and hierarchical management structures can operate simultaneously within a system. The second measure we suggest is a multi-phased approach to project planning and execution. These phases refer to discrete planning and integration periods systematically undertaken by stakeholders at different organizational levels. We suggest that a basic project ‘cycle’ consists of five sequential phases. Phase I: Advanced planning (all stakeholders) As suggested above, project planning should involve all stakeholders (i.e. academics and non-academics alike). With a clear understanding of the data available, stakeholders should reconsider their goals and desired outcomes for the main project (including what constitute ‘deliverables’ for the project). Stakeholders have to decide whether proposed lines of evidence are adequate to address the questions of interest. If not, they have to decide how to either reorient the project or obtain any data that may be lacking. Early in the data-integration process, stakeholders should also consider how to ensure that the individual research units (i.e. the clusters and workgroups) are producing information which is easily comparable among units. Ideally, these choices would have been made before beginning the process of data collection, but since a project like this relies on nearly a century of previously collected data, this kind of advanced planning is out of the question. By addressing a few concerns as early in the data integration process as possible, researchers can avoid significant obstacles to correlation later on. Different disciplines employ different spatial units, related to the spatial extent studied by the discipline, developments in its history, and the S PAT I A L U N I T S . 126 Meyer and Crumley geographic location of the practitioner. The near-universal adoption of the metric system as the standard for scientific research helps us to avoid conflicts between researchers, but it is still true that atmospheric scientists, for example, work in kilometres while archaeologists continue to discuss centimetres. Stakeholders must consider the range of units employed by their disciplines and select a standard (or modular standards) that maintains fine-grained data resolution while reducing the amount of data redundancy. The latter is of particular concern for a project like ours where large spatial expanses are being discussed. The historical ecologist is confronted with similar problems in terms of time. Some of the variables that we study are slow (e.g. the salination of agricultural soils), while others are rapid (e.g. locust swarms). Similarly, some of the data that we propose to use provide very clear year-to-year resolution (e.g. dendrochronology ice-cores), while others provide resolution in decades or centuries (e.g. radiocarbon dating). As with space, stakeholders must choose a temporal standard that strikes a balance between resolution and redundancy. TEMPORAL UNITS. Given the variety of data employed in this project, it is unclear whether stakeholders would arrive at ‘apples to apples’ comparisons even with standard spatial and temporal units. A way forward may be to recognize that each discipline is called upon to describe not only the geographic distributions of various phenomena at certain times, but also change in these distributions over time. A series of uniform ‘change indices’ would facilitate comparisons between the otherwise diverse data of the various disciplines. INDICES OF CHANGE. ‘ H O L E S ’ I N T H E DATA . ‘Holes’ exist in nearly every data set. As archaeologists, we are particularly familiar with the presence of holes in our data; of regions where settlement seems to have been avoided or periods of time for which we have no artefactual record. Stakeholders have to decide what to do about such lacunae. Do areas and/or periods with no data get excluded from analysis? Are they designated as priorities for further data collection? Will data interpolated from known areas/ periods suffice? Each of these solutions presents its own problems: exclusion impacts the spatial and temporal resolution of the data left to work with, further data collection takes time and resources, and interpolation might introduce serious error into the data. Stakeholders should weigh each of these options carefully before deciding as a group which approach allows them to most effectively meet their research goals. Phase II: Advanced planning (research clusters) Similar advanced planning should be carried out by the research clusters. As with the broader group, this planning should include discussions and consensus about cluster-specific goals for the project, outcomes, and deliverables. This would be the forum in which to discuss specific problems of comparison that might be somewhat esoteric to the broader group. Phase III: Planning and analysis (disciplinary workgroups) Advanced planning should also be undertaken at the workgroup level. Discussions here should include an elaboration of each discipline’s ‘best practice’ protocols. This is the forum in which the kinds of intra-disciplinary translation Historical Ecology: Using What Works to Cross the Divide 127 already mentioned would prove most important. Once a set of protocols is decided upon by the workgroup, researchers should be allowed to apply those protocols to the data. By the end of this phase, each workgroup should produce a diachronic, discipline-specific model or narrative of Earth-system change. Phase IV: Model integration (research clusters) These models/narratives should then be brought together with those of closely related disciplines at the cluster level. The goals of this first stage of transdisciplinary data integration might be to produce one model of Earth-system change per cluster. Working with such models, researchers can begin to look for places where and/or periods when change seems to be coeval across proxies. They can also look for instances where change in one variable seems to ‘lead’ to change in another or to ‘lag’ behind another. Importantly, such models allow researchers to identify moments when change seems to happen suddenly and without apparent cause. All of these observations together allow researchers to develop narratives of systemic change within their clusters. Phase V: Model integration (all stakeholders) Just as the second phase of research closely mirrors the first phase, the final phase that we propose closely mirrors the previous phase. In this stage, we suggest that the cluster models be brought together into an integrated model of Earth-system change. Here, again, researchers should look for coeval, leading, and lagging changes across proxies and domains. The degree to which seemingly random or unexplained changes from the cluster models find explanations at this level of integration should be noted, highlighting the mutuo-causal relationship between humans and their environment. We wish to make two things clear about this ‘final’ phase of our proposed historical ecological research. The first is that—like all scientific inquiry—historical ecological research is ongoing. Thus, while it might appear to be the final step in a research endeavour, Phase V would likely be the point at which new questions were asked and new explanations sought, taking stakeholders back to their clusters and disciplines and following our phased plan through an indefinite series of iterations. The second point involves the role of qualitative information in the process of data integration. A reliance on quantitative data (or on qualitative data that might be quantified) has been implicit in much of our project outline up to this point. At the integration phases, however, qualitative data—particularly TEK—may prove invaluable in explaining many of the observed patterns of change. ‘Final’ model in hand, stakeholders are charged with identifying parsimonious explanations for change from within their qualitative data and/or their own experiences. Given this, qualitative data are essential to the production of integrated models/ narratives of socio-natural change in any region and/or for any time period. 3.4.2 GIS: A tool for data integration Few people would have suggested a project of this magnitude in the past because it would have been impossible to realize. Indeed, how can a team integrate so much diverse data into a single model? With the rapid development and wide 128 Meyer and Crumley distribution of powerful communications and data management/analysis technologies over the past twenty-five years, projects like this have become possible. Important among these technologies is a suite of database and mapping tools referred to as geographic information systems (GIS). While many of us have come to think of GIS as a set of advanced computer applications, it must be remembered that GIS have been around since humans started drawing and communicating with maps. Given that archaeologists have been collecting and analysing spatial data since the early days of the discipline, the tie between archaeology and GIS would seem to be long-standing. Fundamental work in establishing the discipline (e.g. that of Pitt-Rivers in south-eastern England or of Thomsen and Worsaae in Denmark) relied on the detailed collection of horizontal and vertical spatial data, the close analysis of artefact attributes, and the careful integration of these two kinds of data—locational/spatial and attribute—in what might be considered ‘analogue’ GIS. In the century and a half that separates Thomsen and Worsaae’s first excavations from our own, GIS applications in archaeology have become ‘digital’, sophisticated, and widespread (e.g. Allen, Green, and Zubrow 1990; Conolly and Lake 2006; Llobera 1996; Madry 1987; Wheatley and Gillings 2002). One of the many benefits of digital GIS applications is the ability to integrate very diverse data into a single analytical framework while maintaining the integrity of the initial data. This is done largely through the management of data layers: individual data sets projected at the same geographic scale and superimposed upon one another. In this way, a researcher can quickly obtain diverse information about any identified location, as suggested by Figure 3.4. Layers can also be correlated through various calculating functions to produce new layers of aggregated data. It is this later capability that makes GIS ideal for historical ecology. For example, our French Project GIS is currently made up of more than 150 layers. These layers include topography, hydrology, contemporary and historic land use, archaeological sites of various periods, and a number of calculated layers, all collected/assembled over the course of thirty years. Archaeologists on both sides of the Atlantic have become familiar with GISproduced maps. We often see so-called ‘vector’ maps (i.e. maps made up of points, lines, and polygons) which show site distributions or theoretical boundaries between hierarchically organized polities (e.g. Nouvel, Ch. 8 this volume; Sande Lemos et al., Ch. 7 this volume). We also see ‘raster’ maps, as on the right side of Figure 3.4. Raster maps might be described as ‘pixilated’ or ‘tessellated’. They are made up of a uniform grid of cells, each of which contains a discrete value. The raster concept is fairly simple, but very powerful. A simple raster showing the presence or absence of some feature (e.g. water, Attic pottery, burned earth) might have a grid of 1 m 1 m cells with the values 0 and 1. More complex maps may have more than two values, depending on what question the analyst seeks to answer. Raster maps have recently come to the attention of archaeologists as the products of several kinds of analysis (e.g. viewshed analysis: Llobera 2003, 2007). As shown in Figure 3.4, it is often the case that a single GIS contains both vector and raster elements. For the research project that we propose, working with rasters provides the most effective approach to examining the various data and correlating them with one another. We suggest that workgroups produce single ‘time-slice’ rasters using the uniform spatial, temporal, and ‘hole’ conventions Historical Ecology: Using What Works to Cross the Divide GIS map showing archaeological sites in relation to soils, hydrology, and roads. 129 Vector Map: A map made up of points, lines, and/or polygons. Sites Roads Hydrology Soils Layers: Individual data sets correlated and superimposed on one another. Raster Map: A map made up of uniform cells, each of which contains a discreet value. Here, values are 0 and 1. The soils layer at the left is a raster with more than two values. Figure 3.4. Some GIS fundamentals. decided upon by all stakeholders in Phase I. These rasters might then be overlain on one another and examined for change between time-slices. Change between timeslices could be recorded in a new results layer using the ‘change indices’ also decided upon in Phase I. The results produced by the individual disciplinary workgroups (i.e. the change layers) might then be overlain on one another to examine ‘leading’, ‘lagging’, and ‘coeval’ changes between the various human and environmental variables/proxies through time. The same process could be repeated for the integrated cluster maps. In this way—with input and output carefully controlled by a relatively small number of project-wide conventions—GIS makes it possible to execute the kind of transdisciplinary data integration that we have proposed. 4 C O NC L U S IO N In this contribution, we have reintroduced historical ecology to an archaeological audience. We have discussed several of the concepts central to this approach and suggested how historical ecology might be brought to bear on the study of 130 Meyer and Crumley Atlantic Europe in the first millennium bc. In relatively broad strokes, we have sketched out a research plan that would draw on diverse data to understand the relationship between environmental and cultural change during this period. While the project we have outlined is massive, we have presented a research design that might provide a guideline for projects at different geographic and temporal scales. In its transdisciplinarity and its simultaneous focus on the environmental and the social, we expect many archaeological readers to find historical ecology familiar and enticing. It is likely, however, that some readers continue to wonder why archaeologists should adopt this approach. In terms of archaeological theory and practice, we submit that historical ecology continues a trend started by earlier environmental and landscape approaches. Just as landscape archaeology succeeded in getting archaeologists to work in regions rather than on sites, historical ecology encourages them to think in spatial terms that are even more expansive. Further, historical ecology requires archaeologists to think outside of traditionally accepted period/phase models—the temporal equivalent of the archaeological site—and to consider human–land interactions and change in the longue durée. Perhaps more compelling, historical ecology is one approach to making archaeology relevant again in the eyes of the public. In the current economy, it is often difficult to demonstrate the value of archaeology to the non-academic world. Archaeologists at all levels find it difficult to obtain research funding, particularly when they must compete against scholars in disciplines that study the ‘here and now’. Cultural resource protections are reduced as the costs of historic preservation are weighed against the benefits of development. Where we work in France, farmers and loggers struggling to meet the intensified production standards set by the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) must weigh similar choices. It often seems questionable whether archaeology will survive restructuring of the academy, of funding organizations, and of legislation. It is not just a matter of archaeology needing to recast itself in order to survive in the twenty-first century. The twenty-first-century world needs archaeology (perhaps now more than ever). Researchers, politicians, and citizens on both sides of the Atlantic are coming to the realization that global climate change is probably the biggest challenge that our generation will face. 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