Anneli Ekblom
Professor at Institutionen för arkeologi och antik historia; Arkeologi
- Telephone:
- +46 18 471 20 77
- E-mail:
- anneli.ekblom@arkeologi.uu.se
- Visiting address:
- Engelska parken, Thunbergsvägen 3H
- Postal address:
- Box 626
751 26 UPPSALA
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Short presentation
My main research interest the last years been has centred on socio-environmental dynamics; an interdisciplinary study residing in the intersection between Environmental History, Historical Ecology and Archaeology. I am also interested in the intersection of society, policy and environment in present day debates and practices of sustainability. Another important strand of my research and educational philosophy is student active learning and co-creation of knowledge.
Keywords
- africa
- archaeology
- climate change
- conservation
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- historical ecology
- landscape ecology
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Biography
- IHOPE Scientific steering committee member
- Boardmember of Societas Archeologica Upsaliensis, SAU.
Research
The Biocultural Heritage of Sicilian Olive Trees The 4 year project is funded by VR 2020-02625 and is a collaboration with PhD student Vincenza Ferrara and Agricultural and Forestry Science, Palermo University. With climate change and increasing abandonment of the Sicilian countryside, the old olive cultural landscapes are threatened. A historical understanding of these landscapes facilitates strategies and solutions for their sustainable management, we will 1) map the spatial and temporal evolvement of olive cropping systems in Sicily, 2) analyse the dynamics of change and continuity in the olive cropping systems and to 3) inform the sustainable management of the olive cropping systems today. Drawing on the concept of Biocultural Heritage, we use historical maps and satellite image analyses to build a geographical database. We investigate the composition of olive intercropping systems using stable carbon isotopes and phytoliths. Together with local farmers, we document local practices and knowledges of olive management. The collaboration with local stakeholders and involved methodologies also constitute a new framework for collaborative research and sustainable management of old olive trees and associated cultural landscapes.
Landscape transformations and socio-ecological management in Limpopo National Park, Mozambique: The project is funded by VR 2012-2015 (collaborations Michel Notelid and Rebecca Witter). We use archaeology, anthropology and paleoecology to analyse the long-term and contemporary socio-natural dynamics in Limpopo National Park (PNL) and lower Limpopo Valley, Mozambique. Our aim is to inform and improve conservation and heritage decision-making in PNL. See project webpage.
Long term landscape dynamics of the Southern Africa savanna: The development of tools for fine-tuning climate projection models, biome-shift predictions and land cover change is of crucial relevance for decision making and policy formulation with respect to biodiversity, livelihood security and social planning.
Archaeobotany and contract archaeology: As an archaeobotanical consultant for contract archaeology since 1999I have aimed to develop the archaeobotanical method to address archaeological research within the context of Swedish heritage management and contract archaeology (see list of reports in attached CV).
Ekologiska rum Mälardalen (The ecological dynamics of places in Mälardalen): The project, aims to analyse and synthesise the current knowledge on palaeo-ecology, human transformations of the landscape and ecological dynamics in the Mälar valley.
Publications
Selection of publications
- A cattle Country (2015)
- Archaeology, Historical Sciences, and Environmental Conservation (2015)
- Livelihood Security, Vulnerability and Resilience (2012)
- Miljöhistorier: Personliga, lokala, globala berättelser om dåtid, nutid och framtid. (2012)
Recent publications
- Scaffolding geospatial epistemic discomfort: a pedagogical framework for cross-disciplinary landscape research (2024)
- Locally protected forests: status, character and challenges a case study of Inhambane Province, southern Mozambique (2024)
- A rapid and simple method for the extraction of biogenic silica (BSi) in phytolith-poor sediments and soils (2024)
- Livelihood vulnerability and human-wildlife interactions across protected areas (2024)
- Pathways from research to sustainable development: Insights from ten research projects in sustainability and resilience (2024)
All publications
Articles
- Scaffolding geospatial epistemic discomfort: a pedagogical framework for cross-disciplinary landscape research (2024)
- Locally protected forests: status, character and challenges a case study of Inhambane Province, southern Mozambique (2024)
- A rapid and simple method for the extraction of biogenic silica (BSi) in phytolith-poor sediments and soils (2024)
- Livelihood vulnerability and human-wildlife interactions across protected areas (2024)
- Pathways from research to sustainable development: Insights from ten research projects in sustainability and resilience (2024)
- Covid-19 pandemic effects and responses in the Maasai Mara Conservancy (2023)
- The role of palaeoecology in reconciling biodiversity conservation, livelihoods and carbon storage in Madagascar (2023)
- The role of palaeoecology in reconciling biodiversity conservation, livelihoods and carbon storage in Madagascar (2023)
- The role of palaeoecology in reconciling biodiversity conservation, livelihoods and carbon storage in Madagascar (2023)
- Hunter-gatherer farming during the first millennium bce in inland, boreal landscapes (2023)
- The history of settlement and agrarian land use in a boreal forest in Värmland, Sweden, new evidence from pollen analysis (2021)
- Household Vulnerability and Transformability in Limpopo National Park (2021)
- Using palaeoecology to explore the resilience of southern African savannas (2020)
- Historical Ecologies of Pastoralist Overgrazing in Kenya (2019)
- Phytolith-based environmental reconstruction from an altitudinal gradient in Mpumalanga, South Africa, 10,600 BP-present (2019)
- Conservation through Biocultural Heritage-Examples from Sub-Saharan Africa (2019)
- A framework for exploring and managing biocultural heritage (2019)
- Drivers and trajectories of land cover change in East Africa (2018)
- Leaf wax delta D inferring variable medieval hydroclimate and early initiation of Little Ice Age (LIA) dryness in southern Mozambique (2018)
- Vegetation dynamics within the savanna biome in southern Mozambique during the late Holocene (2018)
- Anthropological contributions to historical ecology (2017)
- The Importance of paleoecology in the conservation andrestoration of Cultural landscapes. (2017)
- Water flow, ecological dynamics, and management in the lower Limpopo Valley (2017)
- Negotiating identity and heritage through authorised vernacular history, Limpopo National Park (2017)
- A Cattle Country (2015)
- A cattle Country (2015)
- Archaeological surveys in the lower Limpopo valley, Limpopo national park (2015)
- Rethinking Human Nature: Bridging the ‘Gap’ through Landscape Analysis and Geographical Information Systems (GIS) (2015)
- Land use history and resource utilisation from A.D. 400to the present, at Chibuene, southern Mozambique (2014)
- Coastal forest and Miombo woodland history of the Vilankulo region, Mozambique (2014)
- Livelihood Security, Vulnerability and Resilience (2012)
- Rainfall variability and vegetation dynamics of the lower Limpopo Valley, Southern Africa, 500 AD to present (2012)
- Natur skövlas i miljöns namn (2012)
- Water-level variations in Lake Nhauhache, Mozambique, during the last 2,300 years (2012)
- Trade and society on the south-east African coast in the later first millennium AD (2012)
- Faunal remains from Chibuene, an Iron Age coastal trading station in central Mozambique (2011)
- A Historical Ecology of the Limpopo and Kruger National Parks and Lower Limpopo Valley (2011)
- The archaeology of Afro-Portuguese settlements and site formation processes in the Zambezi valley, Mozambique. (2011)
- Dung fungi as indicators of past herbivore abundance, Kruger and Limpopo National Park (2010)
- Fire history and fire ecology of Northern Kruger (KNP) and Limpopo National Park (PNL), southern Africa (2010)
- Hierarchy and scale (2010)
- Untangling anthropogenic and climatic influence on riverineforest in the Kruger National Park, South Africa (2009)
- Resilience and Thresholds in Savannas (2009)
- Forest-savanna dynamics in the coastal lowland of southern Mozambique since 400 AD (2008)
- Paleohydrology of Lake Nhaucati (southern Mozambique),c. 400 AD to present (2008)
- Holocene palaeo-invasions (2008)
- Att hitta till stallet, en gård från förromersk järnålder i Falltorp (2007)
Books
- Framtidens naturvärden i kulturmiljöer (2018)
- The Resilience of Heritage (2018)
- Miljöhistorier: Personliga, lokala, globala berättelser om dåtid, nutid och framtid. (2012)
Chapters
- The Manyikeni and Chibuene Archaeological Sites, Mozambique (2023)
- From landscape as heritage to biocultural heritage in a landscape (2022)
- An historical ecology of cattle in Mozambique (2018)
- Concepts for Integrated Research in Historical Ecology (2018)
- Skapandet av en plats (2018)
- Introduktion (2018)
- Introduktion (2018)
- Med landet i centrum ˗ (2017)
- Chibuene (2017)
- Migrations and interactions between Madagascar and the eastern Africa, 500 BC – 1000 AD: (2016)
- Archaeology, Historical Sciences, and Environmental Conservation (2015)
- Arkadien (2013)
- Samhälle, beslutsfattande och miljö (2012)
- A White Man’s Bush? (2010)
Reports
- Växtfynd– makrofossil- och pollenanalys (2017)
- Makrofossilanalys, bilaga. (2016)
- Makrofossilanalys och stratigrafibedömning. (2011)
- Miljöhistoria och dess frestelser (2010)