Recent years have seen increasing public debate about the heightened negative impacts of global climate change and economic activity on the planet’s environments, biodiversity, and societal health and wellbeing, all of which are linked to the Anthropocene: a quasi-geological epoch which, starting from the Industrial Revolution, witnessed the global spread of human impacts on climate, the environment and ecosystems at scales equivalent to those of geological processes. Archaeology, through its focus on past societal processes and human-environment interactions, is increasingly contributing to addressing these global challenges. ALGY362 introduces students to the history, relevance, current trends, and future perspectives of archaeological research into the Anthropocene. Themes explored in this module include archaeological perspectives on the Anthropocene, archaeological science contributions to (and critical perspectives on) landscape conservation and "re-wilding", and building up environmental sustainability and societal resilience, the prehistory and evolution of people-environment interactions, the sixth extinction and other "human ecological footprints", and the archaeologies of the future past.