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Earthy Matters: Exploring Human Interactions with Earth, Soil and Clay

The book ‘Earthy Matters’ is part of the Materiality in Anthropology and Archaeology series . It explores how lives are shaped through interactions with earth, soils and clay and reminds the reader that they are fundamentally part of the Earth. A lively collection of theoretically informed chapters that introduce the reader to the notion that matter is a creative agent, and that it plays a key role in the formation of our material and social worlds.

‘The Emergence of Interdisciplinary Environmental History. Collaborative Approaches to the Late Holocene’

This article considers how the efflorescence of palaeoscientific approaches to the past, has given rise to historians being confronted with a wealth of new evidence on both human and natural phenomena. It considers how Humanities-based historical inquiry must embrace this emerging evidence, highlighting how historians need to engage critically with new approaches, just as they do with textual and material sources.

The Fifth Element

The Fifth Element, is a major program of The Club of Rome, which anchors the BRIDGES Club of Rome hub. In this Feature piece, Carlos Alvarez Pereira, of The Club of Rome, outlines the Fifth Element approach; to finally learning what we knew 50 years ago. How do we open the space of possibilities for humanity to decide on its course?

Plants Matter: Exploring the becomings of plants and people

The book "Plants Matter: Exploring the becoming of Plants and People” Edited by Dr Luci Attala and Professor Louise Steel. University of Wales Press; is part of the “Materialities in Anthropology and Archaeology” series. Plants Matter explores how plants and people live together. This is not only a book about the importance of plants and how people use them, but it argues also that knowing the world is achieved-with plants. In addition to populating the landscape, plants alter human physiology in multiple material ways, through gatherings or through sensorial conversations using the chemistry of taste, perfume, colour, sound and textures.

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