Papers by Lucas Stephens
Poster presented at the ASOR Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA, 2019
This poster estimates the total carbon emissions of travel to the ASOR Annual Meeting, proposes s... more This poster estimates the total carbon emissions of travel to the ASOR Annual Meeting, proposes several pragmatic strategies to mitigate emissions, and models the effectiveness of each strategy. Emissions from transportation are a major cause of climate change, and routine conference travel leads academics to have an outsized carbon footprint. ASOR must join other organizations in reckoning with its own contribution to the climate emergency. A further ethical consideration is that climate change has a more severe impact on the Middle Eastern countries studied by ASOR than on many members’ home nations.
Recommendations include: 1) geographic optimization of the host city, 2) introduction of a parallel and virtually-linked meeting in the Middle East, 3) provision of teleconferencing options for some contributors, and 4) incentivizing sustainable travel modes. In combination, these strategies can reduce emissions by 50%. They would carry the additional benefits of increasing the meeting’s accessibility for participants with disabilities, childcare obligations, difficulties acquiring visas to the U.S., or limited funding for conference travel, and are thus likely to raise overall attendance.
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ASOR Poster Presentation, 2019
This poster estimates the total carbon emissions of travel to the ASOR Annual Meeting, proposes s... more This poster estimates the total carbon emissions of travel to the ASOR Annual Meeting, proposes several pragmatic strategies to mitigate emissions, and models the effectiveness of each strategy.
Emissions from transportation are a major cause of climate change, and routine conference travel leads academics to have an outsized carbon footprint. ASOR must join other organizations in reckoning with its own contribution to the climate emergency. A further ethical consideration is that climate change has a more severe impact on the Middle Eastern countries studied by ASOR than on many members’ home nations.
Recommendations include: 1) geographic optimization of the host city, 2) introduction of a parallel and virtually-linked meeting in the Middle East, 3) provision of teleconferencing options for some contributors, and 4) incentivizing sustainable travel modes. In combination, these strategies can reduce emissions by 50%. They would carry the additional benefits of increasing the meeting’s accessibility for participants with disabilities, childcare obligations, difficulties acquiring visas to the U.S., or limited funding for conference travel, and are thus likely to raise overall attendance.
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Science, 2019
Environmentally transformative human use of land accelerated with the emergence of agriculture, b... more Environmentally transformative human use of land accelerated with the emergence of agriculture, but the extent, trajectory, and implications of these early changes are not well understood. An empirical global assessment of land use from 10,000 years before the present (yr B.P.) to 1850 CE reveals a planet largely transformed by hunter-gatherers, farmers, and pastoralists by 3000 years ago, considerably earlier than the dates in the land-use reconstructions commonly used by Earth scientists. Synthesis of knowledge contributed by more than 250 archaeologists highlighted gaps in archaeological expertise and data quality, which peaked for 2000 yr B.P. and in traditionally studied and wealthier regions. Archaeological reconstruction of global land-use history illuminates the deep roots of Earth’s transformation and challenges the emerging Anthropocene paradigm that large-scale anthropogenic global environmental change is mostly a recent phenomenon.
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Science, 2019
Environmentally transformative human use of land accelerated with the emergence of agriculture, b... more Environmentally transformative human use of land accelerated with the emergence of agriculture, but the extent, trajectory, and implications of these early changes are not well understood. An empirical global assessment of land use from 10,000 years before the present (yr B.P.) to 1850 CE reveals a planet largely transformed by hunter-gatherers, farmers, and pastoralists by 3000 years ago, considerably earlier than the dates in the land-use reconstructions commonly used by Earth scientists. Synthesis of knowledge contributed by more than
250 archaeologists highlighted gaps in archaeological expertise and data quality, which peaked for 2000 yr B.P. and in traditionally studied and wealthier regions. Archaeological reconstruction of global land-use history illuminates the deep roots of Earth’s transformation and challenges the emerging Anthropocene paradigm that large-scale anthropogenic global environmental change is mostly a recent phenomenon.
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by Lucas Stephens, Sean Ulm, Lisa Janz, Oula Seitsonen, Andrea Kay, Gary Feinman, Kristina G Douglass, Mark D McCoy, Timothy Beach, William E Doolittle, Peter Hiscock, and Sonia Archila Science, 2019
Environmentally transformative human use of land accelerated with the emergence of agriculture, b... more Environmentally transformative human use of land accelerated with the emergence of agriculture, but the extent, trajectory, and implications of these early changes are not well understood. An empirical global assessment of land use from 10,000 years before the present (yr B.P.) to 1850 CE reveals a planet largely transformed by hunter-gatherers, farmers, and pastoralists by 3000 years ago, considerably earlier than the dates in the land-use reconstructions commonly used by Earth scientists. Synthesis of knowledge contributed by more than 250 archaeologists highlighted gaps in archaeological expertise and data quality, which peaked for 2000 yr B.P. and in traditionally studied and wealthier regions. Archaeological reconstruction of global land-use history illuminates the deep roots of Earth’s transformation and challenges the emerging Anthropocene paradigm that large-scale anthropogenic global environmental change is mostly a recent phenomenon.
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Science, 2019
Find it here: https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataverse/ArchaeoGLOBE
and here: https://science.sci... more Find it here: https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataverse/ArchaeoGLOBE
and here: https://science.sciencemag.org/content/365/6456/897
Environmentally transformative human use of land accelerated with the emergence of agriculture, but the extent, trajectory, and implications of these early changes are not well understood. An empirical global assessment of land use from 10,000 years before the present (yr B.P.) to 1850 CE reveals a planet largely transformed by hunter-gatherers, farmers, and pastoralists by 3000 years ago, considerably earlier than the dates in the land-use reconstructions commonly used by Earth scientists. Synthesis of knowledge contributed by more than 250 archaeologists highlighted gaps in archaeological expertise and data quality, which peaked for 2000 yr B.P. and in traditionally studied and wealthier regions. Archaeological reconstruction of global land-use history illuminates the deep roots of Earth’s transformation and challenges the emerging Anthropocene paradigm that large-scale anthropogenic global environmental change is mostly a recent phenomenon.
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Science, 2019
Environmentally transformative human use of land accelerated with the emergence of agriculture, b... more Environmentally transformative human use of land accelerated with the emergence of agriculture, but the extent, trajectory, and implications of these early changes are not well understood. An empirical global assessment of land use from 10,000 years before the present (yr B.P.) to 1850 CE reveals a planet largely transformed by hunter-gatherers, farmers, and pastoralists by 3000 years ago, considerably earlier than the dates in the land-use reconstructions commonly used by Earth scientists. Synthesis of knowledge contributed by more than 250 archaeologists highlighted gaps in archaeological expertise and data quality, which peaked for 2000 yr B.P. and in traditionally studied and wealthier regions. Archaeological reconstruction of global land-use history illuminates the deep roots of Earth’s transformation and challenges the emerging Anthropocene paradigm that large-scale anthropogenic global environmental change is mostly a recent phenomenon.
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by Gwen Robbins Schug, Maureece Levin, José Antonio López Sáez, Ciler Cilingiroglu, Oula Seitsonen, Gary Feinman, Elena Garcea, Nayeli Jimenez Cano, Kim von Hackwitz, Lucas Stephens, and Agustín A Diez Castillo Science, 2019
Environmentally transformative human use of land accelerated with the emergence of agriculture, b... more Environmentally transformative human use of land accelerated with the emergence of agriculture, but the extent, trajectory, and implications of these early changes are not well understood. An empirical global assessment of land use from 10,000 years before the present (yr B.P.) to 1850 CE reveals a planet largely transformed by hunter-gatherers, farmers, and pastoralists by 3000 years ago, considerably earlier than the dates in the land-use reconstructions commonly used by Earth scientists. Synthesis of knowledge contributed by more than 250 archaeologists highlighted gaps in archaeological expertise and data quality, which peaked for 2000 yr B.P. and in traditionally studied and wealthier regions. Archaeological reconstruction of global land-use history illuminates the deep roots of Earth’s transformation and challenges the emerging Anthropocene paradigm that large-scale anthropogenic global environmental change is mostly a recent phenomenon.
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Science, 2019
Environmentally transformative human use of land accelerated with the emergence of agriculture, b... more Environmentally transformative human use of land accelerated with the emergence of agriculture, but the extent, trajectory, and implications of these early changes are not well understood. An empirical global assessment of land use from 10,000 years before the present (yr B.P.) to 1850 CE reveals a planet largely transformed by hunter-gatherers, farmers, and pastoralists by 3000 years ago, considerably earlier than the dates in the land-use reconstructions commonly used by Earth scientists. Synthesis of knowledge contributed by more than 250 archaeologists highlighted gaps in archaeological expertise and data quality, which peaked for 2000 yr B.P. and in traditionally studied and wealthier regions. Archaeological reconstruction of global land-use history illuminates the deep roots of Earth’s transformation and challenges the emerging Anthropocene paradigm that large-scale anthropogenic global environmental change is mostly a recent phenomenon.
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Papers on Global Agricultural History by Lucas Stephens
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Recommendations include: 1) geographic optimization of the host city, 2) introduction of a parallel and virtually-linked meeting in the Middle East, 3) provision of teleconferencing options for some contributors, and 4) incentivizing sustainable travel modes. In combination, these strategies can reduce emissions by 50%. They would carry the additional benefits of increasing the meeting’s accessibility for participants with disabilities, childcare obligations, difficulties acquiring visas to the U.S., or limited funding for conference travel, and are thus likely to raise overall attendance.
Emissions from transportation are a major cause of climate change, and routine conference travel leads academics to have an outsized carbon footprint. ASOR must join other organizations in reckoning with its own contribution to the climate emergency. A further ethical consideration is that climate change has a more severe impact on the Middle Eastern countries studied by ASOR than on many members’ home nations.
Recommendations include: 1) geographic optimization of the host city, 2) introduction of a parallel and virtually-linked meeting in the Middle East, 3) provision of teleconferencing options for some contributors, and 4) incentivizing sustainable travel modes. In combination, these strategies can reduce emissions by 50%. They would carry the additional benefits of increasing the meeting’s accessibility for participants with disabilities, childcare obligations, difficulties acquiring visas to the U.S., or limited funding for conference travel, and are thus likely to raise overall attendance.
250 archaeologists highlighted gaps in archaeological expertise and data quality, which peaked for 2000 yr B.P. and in traditionally studied and wealthier regions. Archaeological reconstruction of global land-use history illuminates the deep roots of Earth’s transformation and challenges the emerging Anthropocene paradigm that large-scale anthropogenic global environmental change is mostly a recent phenomenon.
and here: https://science.sciencemag.org/content/365/6456/897
Environmentally transformative human use of land accelerated with the emergence of agriculture, but the extent, trajectory, and implications of these early changes are not well understood. An empirical global assessment of land use from 10,000 years before the present (yr B.P.) to 1850 CE reveals a planet largely transformed by hunter-gatherers, farmers, and pastoralists by 3000 years ago, considerably earlier than the dates in the land-use reconstructions commonly used by Earth scientists. Synthesis of knowledge contributed by more than 250 archaeologists highlighted gaps in archaeological expertise and data quality, which peaked for 2000 yr B.P. and in traditionally studied and wealthier regions. Archaeological reconstruction of global land-use history illuminates the deep roots of Earth’s transformation and challenges the emerging Anthropocene paradigm that large-scale anthropogenic global environmental change is mostly a recent phenomenon.
Newest Papers by Lucas Stephens
Essay by L Stephens, E. Ellis, DQ Fuller published online in Aeon Magazine: https://aeon.co/essays/revolutionary-archaeology-reveals-the-deepest-possible-anthropocene
Papers on Global Agricultural History by Lucas Stephens
Recommendations include: 1) geographic optimization of the host city, 2) introduction of a parallel and virtually-linked meeting in the Middle East, 3) provision of teleconferencing options for some contributors, and 4) incentivizing sustainable travel modes. In combination, these strategies can reduce emissions by 50%. They would carry the additional benefits of increasing the meeting’s accessibility for participants with disabilities, childcare obligations, difficulties acquiring visas to the U.S., or limited funding for conference travel, and are thus likely to raise overall attendance.
Emissions from transportation are a major cause of climate change, and routine conference travel leads academics to have an outsized carbon footprint. ASOR must join other organizations in reckoning with its own contribution to the climate emergency. A further ethical consideration is that climate change has a more severe impact on the Middle Eastern countries studied by ASOR than on many members’ home nations.
Recommendations include: 1) geographic optimization of the host city, 2) introduction of a parallel and virtually-linked meeting in the Middle East, 3) provision of teleconferencing options for some contributors, and 4) incentivizing sustainable travel modes. In combination, these strategies can reduce emissions by 50%. They would carry the additional benefits of increasing the meeting’s accessibility for participants with disabilities, childcare obligations, difficulties acquiring visas to the U.S., or limited funding for conference travel, and are thus likely to raise overall attendance.
250 archaeologists highlighted gaps in archaeological expertise and data quality, which peaked for 2000 yr B.P. and in traditionally studied and wealthier regions. Archaeological reconstruction of global land-use history illuminates the deep roots of Earth’s transformation and challenges the emerging Anthropocene paradigm that large-scale anthropogenic global environmental change is mostly a recent phenomenon.
and here: https://science.sciencemag.org/content/365/6456/897
Environmentally transformative human use of land accelerated with the emergence of agriculture, but the extent, trajectory, and implications of these early changes are not well understood. An empirical global assessment of land use from 10,000 years before the present (yr B.P.) to 1850 CE reveals a planet largely transformed by hunter-gatherers, farmers, and pastoralists by 3000 years ago, considerably earlier than the dates in the land-use reconstructions commonly used by Earth scientists. Synthesis of knowledge contributed by more than 250 archaeologists highlighted gaps in archaeological expertise and data quality, which peaked for 2000 yr B.P. and in traditionally studied and wealthier regions. Archaeological reconstruction of global land-use history illuminates the deep roots of Earth’s transformation and challenges the emerging Anthropocene paradigm that large-scale anthropogenic global environmental change is mostly a recent phenomenon.
Essay by L Stephens, E. Ellis, DQ Fuller published online in Aeon Magazine: https://aeon.co/essays/revolutionary-archaeology-reveals-the-deepest-possible-anthropocene