PEOPLE CENTRED HERITAGE: UNEARTHING THE DEEP PAST

“Traditionally archaeology has been slightly too focused on just material culture. As a society we’re starting to ask more questions about climate, about environment, about our role in those large natural systems.

Geoarchaeology and environmental archaeology is a way of telling those stories about the deep past and linking them to our future and our present.” Ian Ostericher

As one of the few archaeological consultancies in the world to have in-house geoarchaeological capabilities, Extent Heritage is well-placed to leverage earth sciences in its approach to the past.

For Ian Ostericher, Senior Specialist Advisor at Extent Heritage, Geoarchaeology is all about looking beyond artefacts, towards building a bigger picture. “What geoarcheology allows us to do is try and figure out what has happened since that archaeological site has been deposited,” says Ian.

“What processes have altered that archaeological material? And how can we use that information to reverse engineer what was actually happening in the deep past?”

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