The Research Seminar Series in Archaeology and Environmental archaeology invites you to a seminar with Love Eriksson, "With insects as proxies: Preliminary Findings on Past and Present Human Activities Across Diverse Landscapes"
This presentation will focus on the preliminary results of a few projects that were carried out between September 2024 to May 2025 during a research trip made to Arizona, USA. The aim of these projects was to attempt to study human activities in the landscape and in archaeological contexts through the application of archaeoentomology and palaeoentomology, the study of insects in archaeological and natural contexts. The scope of the research trip also extended to traditional entomology and the study of landscapes and insect-plant interactions in the present – the present is the key to the past.
Two of these projects were carried out over extended field seasons. In Organ Pipe National Monument, AZ, where the biodiversity of the Sonoran Desert was surveyed and in E.N. Huyck Preserve, NY, where long-term landscape change was the focus. Two archaeological sites have also been analysed using archaeoentomology. The first site being an early colonial grave in Historic St. Mary City, MD, where of the governor Philip Calvert was buried in c. 1682. The second site analysed was a shieling and marginal farm in central Norway dating between the Viking Age to Early Medieval periods.
The Research Seminar Series in Archaeology and Environmental Archaeology presents and discusses current research in archaeology and environmental archaeology.
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