Kerstin Lidén Editor & Author

Sjoerd Kluiving is an Associate Professor in Geoarchaeology and Anthropocene Sciences, with a special interest in Environmental Humanities. As a geologist and physical geographer involved in applying earth sciences to archaeology in interdisciplinary research and teaching, with emphasis on the Anthropocene. Project management in (field-based) evaluation of archaeological monuments, extensive teaching and research experience and initiator and project manager of involving cultural history in planning processes. Sjoerd leads the newly established Environmental Humanities Center at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, and the International Association of Landscape Archaeology (IALA), uniting global geologists, archaeologists and historians. Sjoerd is (co-) supervising a growing body of PhD students in the field of landscape archaeology on the interface of archaeology, ecology and the earth sciences. Sjoerd has a special interest in accelerating the current societal transition and is project coordinator of TERRANOVA (EU- Horizon2020) steering 15 PhD candidates in a landscape-based response to one of the main challenges of our time. Kerstin Lidén is a Professor in Archaeological Science with a special interest in Environmental Humanities. She has been part in initiating a special call for a post doc researchers in “Environmental Research in the Human Sciences Area” at Stockholm University, an interdisciplinary call directed to all areas in Human Sciences. Kerstin has also initiated a new field of research in Sweden, Glacial Archaeology, where she and her research group perform regular inventories at melting glaciers and snow patches. Presently she is also leading a research project on “How to deal with environmental change – the impact of three major environmental events on prehistoric coastal societies and their main prey species” focusing on human environmental relations in times of major climatic shifts, natural or human induced. Christina Fredengren is an archaeologist with a particular engagement in the emerging discipline of Environmental Humanities, with a particular interest in deep time, gender, intragenerational justice and care, sacrifice and sacrificial landscape, human-animal relations, new materialism. Christina has developed the research school of Environmental Humanities at Stockholm University, is an experienced field archaeologist and has managed several large scale international research projects.