Processes of attachments with mountain beings, of personification, as well as embodied experiences of loss, death and bare life, can prefigurate future ways of relating with mountain entities and spac
Kold Krush, A Cosmos Compressed: Mountain Subsistence and Spiritual Transformations in the Neoglacial of Maloti-Drakensberg, Southern Africa
Archaeologists have long sought to make excavated and rock art evidence mutually intelligible. With new direct dates from rock paintings comes an unprecedented opportunity to relate the two registers
‘Things of consequence’: ostrich eggshell beads as indicators of precolonial societal interaction between southern African highlands and lowlands
Exotic ostrich eggshell beads held powerful associations for hunter-gatherers living in Lesotho’s Maloti-Drakensberg Mountains during the Late Quaternary and bound them to various lowland societies.
Between Tradition and Change – social structures and settlement patterns in the Highland of Albania
Nikc (High Albania), showcases the Kelmend tribe’s cultural identity through self-sufficient hamlets, livestock breeding, andkinship networks, reflecting the lifestyle before communism transformation.
Aren’t ethnographic materials on mountain communities qualified as mountain information? Can they be assembled? And How?
The talk gauges the interest of the mountain research community in making use of a wealth of qualitative information about the mountain and its people embedded in ethnographic materials.
Adaptive trajectories in temperate mountains: new research at Likonong and Ha Soloja, Lesotho
Pilot research at two rockshelters in Lesotho’s Maloti-Drakensberg Mountains reveal processes of landscape learning and the generation of adaptive strategies beginning in the Middle Pleistocene.
Climate Change, Disaster, and the Memory of the Land: Local Perspectives on Archaeological Heritage and Changing Landscapes in the Central Andean Highlands
This paper highlights how community relationships with archaeological sites and their landscapes in Huaylas, Peru shape resilience to disaster and climate change through storytelling, and place-making
Stories, experiences and videos to raise awareness in mountain areas
Our project aims to explore the use of a video in a research protocol to test the raising of public awareness of other species living in mid-mountain areas.
The tribal social organization pattern in High Land of Albania
Nikc represents the Kelmend tribe’s unique cultural identity, shaped by isolation and traditional practices. This research uses building archaeology and oral histories to explore settlement patterns
Stakeholders’ fatigue and the problem of “too much [research], too little [giving back]” in action research in the mountains
This paper discusses the issues of communities being over-researched and over-engaged as part of the inter- and transdisciplinary research and presents alternatives to address this ethical challenge.