40 min

Greetings From the Anthropocene‪!‬ The Dirt Podcast

    • Education

Get ready for a two-part exploration of the proposed "Anthropocene" era. Can we define a chunk of geological time based on human impacts? When would that start--at the Industrial Revolution in the 1800s (CE)? Earlier? Later? More importantly...should we even try? Plus, we learn about industrial archaeology and get briefly derailed by a man named Frerb Hankbert. Make sure to stay tuned for the second installment!
To learn more about what we cover in both parts, check out:
Geologists Vote to Reject Anthropocene as an Official Epoch (Center for Field Sciences)
Anthropocene (Oxford English Dictionary)

GSA Geologic Time Scale v. 4.0

The “Anthropocene” (International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme Newsletter)

Anthropocene Curriculum

How Long Have We Been in the Anthropocene? (SAPIENS)

Archaeological assessment reveals Earth’s early transformation through land use (Science)

Humans versus Earth: the quest to define the Anthropocene (Nature)

Early onset of industrial-era warming across the oceans and continents (Nature)

The Industrial Revolution kick-started global warming much earlier than we realised (The Conversation)

The Oxford Handbook of Industrial Archaeology (via WorldCat)

Global human-made mass exceeds all living biomass (Nature)

An anthropogenic marker horizon in the future rock record (GSA Today)

The Technofossil Record: Where Archaeology and Paleontology Meet (Anthropocene Curriculum)

Defining the Anthropocene (Nature)

Davis, H., & Todd, Z. (2017). On the Importance of a Date, or, Decolonizing the Anthropocene. ACME: An International Journal for Critical Geographies, 16(4), 761–780. 

Whyte, Kyle. "a href="http://muse.jhu.edu/article/711473"...

Get ready for a two-part exploration of the proposed "Anthropocene" era. Can we define a chunk of geological time based on human impacts? When would that start--at the Industrial Revolution in the 1800s (CE)? Earlier? Later? More importantly...should we even try? Plus, we learn about industrial archaeology and get briefly derailed by a man named Frerb Hankbert. Make sure to stay tuned for the second installment!
To learn more about what we cover in both parts, check out:
Geologists Vote to Reject Anthropocene as an Official Epoch (Center for Field Sciences)
Anthropocene (Oxford English Dictionary)

GSA Geologic Time Scale v. 4.0

The “Anthropocene” (International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme Newsletter)

Anthropocene Curriculum

How Long Have We Been in the Anthropocene? (SAPIENS)

Archaeological assessment reveals Earth’s early transformation through land use (Science)

Humans versus Earth: the quest to define the Anthropocene (Nature)

Early onset of industrial-era warming across the oceans and continents (Nature)

The Industrial Revolution kick-started global warming much earlier than we realised (The Conversation)

The Oxford Handbook of Industrial Archaeology (via WorldCat)

Global human-made mass exceeds all living biomass (Nature)

An anthropogenic marker horizon in the future rock record (GSA Today)

The Technofossil Record: Where Archaeology and Paleontology Meet (Anthropocene Curriculum)

Defining the Anthropocene (Nature)

Davis, H., & Todd, Z. (2017). On the Importance of a Date, or, Decolonizing the Anthropocene. ACME: An International Journal for Critical Geographies, 16(4), 761–780. 

Whyte, Kyle. "a href="http://muse.jhu.edu/article/711473"...

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