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Mette Løvschal

Professor of Archaeology, Aarhus University, Denmark

Mette Løvschal is professor of archaeology in the School of Culture and Society at Aarhus University in Denmark.

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A vast heathland landscape with purplish-brown vegetation under a partly cloudy sky, featuring a distant hill on the horizon.

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Deep time

Mutual entrapment

As Neolithic people transformed prehistoric forests, they stumbled into an ecological trap. Domestication goes both ways

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