The archaeosphere is the totality of many different types of humanly modified ground, considered on a global scale. It is both a stratigraphic record of past human-environment interactions, and a material force with active effects on other parts of the environment. This website gathers together all the papers I have written on the archaeosphere, and also on the related subject of the Anthropocene Event,
Archaeosphere Anthropocene Event
ARCHAEOSPHERE
The urban archaeosphere in section, as cut through during construction of the Syntagma Square metro station in Athens, preserved behind glass on the wall of the station concourse. Photo by Hoverfish (2009), Wikimedia Commons CC-BY-SA 3.0.
