Workshop: Human-Environment Interactions in Eurasian Uplands

Hills and mountains, ecologically diverse and biologically rich, have long served people as places for living and extraction of resources, though potentially challenging for settlement, subsistence and health. Archaeologists and palaeoecologists have found evidence of occupation and resource exploitation in middle and high altitudes, and have used it to reconstruct strategies of survival and adaptation to conditions diverging from those in the lowlands. The workshop facilitates exchange of knowledge on the methods, data sets and collaborations that hold potential for the study of past economies in the uplands of Eurasia; it confronts the knowns and unknowns, in order to identify where progress in the research on past human adaptation to high elevations should and can be made.