How Long Have We Been in the Anthropocene?
A global survey of scientists shines a light on the time depth of human impacts on Earth.
How Long Have We Been in the Anthropocene?
Lucas Stephens
Lucas Stephens is a research affiliate in archaeology at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History. He earned a Ph.D. at the University of Pennsylvania in the art and archaeology of the Mediterranean world. Stephens studies land use, transportation, agriculture, and urbanism both in the distant past and the present. He led the ArchaeGLOBE Project (2018–2019).