Limpopo Life

Anneli Ekblom is a Professor of Archaeology and Global Environmental History in the Department of Archaeology and Ancient History, Uppsala University. As an archaeologist by training, she has combined archaeobotanical and palaeoecological tools to reconstruct landscape history. Her research focuses on relations between human-nature ranging from the very physicality of landscape changes in flora and climate to conflicts and contestations when it comes to conservation and heritage. Her research interests converge around landscape history, conservation, and links to sustainability. She is also involved in projects exploring biocultural heritage in Mozambique, Sicily, and Bolivia.

Michel Notelid is a researcher affiliated with the Department of Archaeology and Ancient History, at Uppsala University. He is an archaeologist with many years' experience as a lecturer, and is interested in the development of methods and theory in archaeology, as well as the history and philosophy of ideas. With a background in political sciences and economics, he is engaged in questions of sustainability discourse and philosophical inquiries into the construction of identity in late modernity. In the last 20 years, Michel has explored the inspiration zone between arts, photography and research through film, and social media. Michel has also published on archaeology, heritage and environmental history in Mozambique.