The Field Diary is a digital open-access newsletter that highlights and promotes the human perspective of conducting fieldwork anywhere in the world by all groups working for companies, government, development/conservation/missionary NGOs, security, graduate students, and academia. The first issue of the Field Diary brought together a collection of fieldwork-themed stories from many parts of the world including, Kenya, Tanzania, Burkina Faso, and New […]
“People and Land” – The REAL magazine is out now!
We proudly present “People and Land” – a magazine published by the REAL research group! Stories about steaming landscapes, the life of a pollen grain, lost archives, cows on a bridge, forgotten peace, dung and mud and much more ……it’s all in there! In this collection of articles, the REAL Early Stage Researchers take you […]
Nik Petek: List of publications
Articles Petek-Sargeant N, Lane PJ. in press 2021. Weathering Climate Change in Archaeology: Conceptual Challenges and an East African Case Study. Cambridge Archaeological Journal. p1-18. DOI: 10.1017/S0959774321000044 Boles O, Shoemaker A, Courtney Mustaphi CJ, Petek N, Ekblom A, Lane P. 2019. Historical ecologies of pastoralist overgrazing in Kenya: long-term perspectives on cause and effect. Human Ecology 47(3), 419–434. […]
Introduction
This site presents the activities of 2 major research projects and tracks the careers of the alumni 1) The Adaptation and Resilience to Climate Change (ARCC) project focused on socio-ecological resilience in the borderlands area of Kenya and Tanzania — and is funded by the Swedish Research Council (Vetenskapsrådet), Sida and Formas (2016-06355) (2017–2020) (see […]
Towards 50 Key Questions for Historical Ecology
On November 13-15th 2015 at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver Canada the New International Community for Historical Ecology (NICHE), the Department of Archaeology and Ancient History at Uppsala University, and the Integrated History and future of People on Earth research network sponsored the 2nd International Historical Ecology Meeting. Workshop Program The meeting was attended by REAL project members Anna Shoemaker, […]
Kenya’s Natural Capital: A Biodiversity Atlas
The Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources of the Government of Kenya worked in collaboration with a team of national and international organizations and universities, including University of York, UK, to produce the first Biodiversity Atlas of the Natural Capital for Kenya. The Atlas project, which was coordinated by the African Conservation Centre (ACC) documents […]
KENYA FIELDWORK JAN-APRIL 2015 REAL-YORK TEAM
The 2nd field season for the York REAL team begun in February 2015 with visits and meetings at various institutions for possible collaboration and networking. Esther Githumbi met with the Kenya CIFOR team Mariana Rufino and Alphonse on the 16th of February at their ILRI office on their ongoing research in the Mau ecosystem to […]
Action Plan for Drylands Dialogue and Social Diversity
On January 20-21, I participated in the second gathering of the Drylands Dialogue meeting held in Nairobi. (February 6, 2015 by Purabi Bose) (Nairobi, 2015) The second gathering of the Drylands Dialogue meeting achieved the objective to identify priorities for research and development action plan. On January 20-21, the second Drylands Dialogue was organized by the African Studies […]
PAA/SAfA Conference 2014
The REAL project was well represented at the jointly held 14th Congress of the Pan African Archaeological Association for Prehistory and Related Studies and the 22nd Biennial Meeting of the Society of Africanist Archaeologists which took place 14th-18th of July at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa. Nik Petek presented on Gifts, Feasts, and Social […]
Theory and Practice of Stable Light Isotope Mass Spectrometry
Stable isotope analysis has a huge range of applications including understanding the food histories and lifeways of past peoples and the animals they shared their landscapes with. I hope to use the ratio of naturally occurring stable isotopes (δ13C, δ15N, 18O / 16O and 87Sr, 88Sr) to evaluate whether historic and contemporary patterns observed in livestock and pastoral mobility […]
Field visit: Eric Kioko’s study area in Enoosupukia, Narok with Prof Bollig and a team from University of Cologne and Bonn, Germany. March 2014
REAL Publications
This page lists an up to date, comprehensive list of publications by the REAL network. REAL members are highlighted in bold. Final Report: Lane P, et al. 2017 and 2024. Resilience in East African Landscapes: Identifying critical thresholds and sustainable trajectories – past, present and future – Final Report. FP7-PEOPLE-2013-ITN Marie-Curie Action Initial Training Networks […]