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Academic position:ÌýProfessor of Mesoamerican Archaeology

Department:ÌýInstitute of Archaeology

Telephone number:Ìý02076797532 office; 07901718315Ìýmobile

·¡³¾²¹¾±±ô:Ìýe.graham@ucl.ac.uk

Biography

As an archaeologist whose fieldwork involves digging through the detritus of past societies andÌýcivilisations, the idea that humans have had a significant impact onÌýthe earth is a no-brainer. My and my team’s research focuses not so much onÌýpotteryÌýtypesÌýor architecture,Ìýwhich constituteÌýtradtionalÌýarchaeology, but instead on tracingÌýthe decay ofÌýwhat has been thrown away (e.g.,Ìýdomestic and industrial waste), left behind (abandoned buildings), or buried (bodies).ÌýOur interest isÌýhowÌýthe decay components affect: 1) the way soils form; 2) the amount of soils formed; and 3) the properties of the modernÌýcultivable landscape, including natural vegetation.ÌýOur project aims include developing innovative methods of accelerating the formation of our current global soil resource;Ìýre-thinking cemetery management;Ìýas well as contributing to sustainable strategies for the management of waste, especially the waste that goes into landfill.ÌýÌý

Research Projects

• InÌýpressÌý E.ÌýGraham, D. Evans, L. Duncan.ÌýThe Waste of Time. InÌýTheÌýTemporalities of Waste: Out of Sight, Out of Time, eds. F. Allon, R.ÌýBarcan, K.ÌýEddison-Cogan. Routledge Environmental Humanities Series.Ìý
• 2018 E. Graham & ChristianÌýIsendahl.ÌýNeotropical Cities asÌýAgro-Urban Landscapes. InÌýTheÌýResilience of Heritage—Cultivating a Future of the Past, eds.ÌýA.Ekblom, C.ÌýIsendahlÌýand K-J Lindholm, 165-180. Studies in Global Archaeology 23 (series editor,ÌýP.Lane). Uppsala University.Ìý
• From 30 November 2018 to 17ÌýFebruary,Ìý2019: ‘.’ Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, Norwich.ÌýPart of curation team headed by B. VisÌý(Kent), D. EvansÌý(Lancaster). ÌýÌý
• 2017 Graham, E., Macphail, R., Turner, S., Crowther, J., Stegemann, J., Arroyo-Kalin, M., Duncan, L., Whittet, R.,ÌýRosique, C., Austin, P.ÌýThe Marco Gonzalez Maya site, Ambergris Caye, Belize: Assessing the impact of human activities by examining diachronic processes at the local scale.ÌýQuaternary InternationalÌý437: 115-142.Ìý
• 2017 Macphail, Richard I., Elizabeth Graham, John Crowther, Simon Turner. Marco Gonzalez, Ambergris Caye, Belize:ÌýA geoarchaeological record of ground raising associated with surface soil formation and the presence of a Dark Earth.ÌýÌýJournal of Archaeological ScienceÌý77:Ìý35-51.Ìý
• 2016 Graham, E., R. Macphail, J. Crowther, S. Turner, J. Stegemann, M. Arroyo-Kalin, L. Duncan, P. Austin, R. Whittet, C.ÌýRosique.ÌýPast and Future Earth,ÌýArchaeology InternationalÌý19: 97-108.Ìý
• 2006ÌýA Neotropical Framework for Terra Preta.ÌýÌýInÌýTime & Complexity in Historical Ecology:Ìý Studies in the Neotropical Lowlands, eds.ÌýW.BaleéÌý&ÌýC.Erickson, 57-86.Ìý Columbia University Press, NY.Ìý
• 1999ÌýStone Cities, Green Cities.ÌýInÌýComplex Polities in the Ancient Tropical World, edited by Elisabeth A. Bacus and Lisa J. Lucero, pp 185-194.Ìý Archaeological Papers of the American Anthropological Association 9.Ìý AAA, Arlington, Virginia. **Ìý
• 1999ÌýFarming the Built Environment.Ìý InÌýForÌýHunger-Proof Cities: Sustainable Urban Food Systems,Ìýedited by Mustafa Koc, RodÌýMacRae, Luc J.A.ÌýMougeot, and Jennifer Welsh, pp. 150-154.Ìý International Development Research Centre (IDRC), Ottawa.ÌýÌý
• 1998ÌýMetaphor and Metamorphism--Some Thoughts on Environmental Meta-History.Ìý InÌýAdvances in Historical Ecology, edited by WilliamÌýBalée, pp.119-137. Columbia University Press, New York.

Teaching

I teach several courses on the Maya and Mesoamerica that include humans and environmental impact, but in terms of directly engaging with the Anthropocene, I contribute to a single course: ARCL0044 Archaeology in the World -- running in 2020-21.

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