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Jan-Bart Gewald

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Netherlands (the)

Jan-Bart Gewald is part of the 2022 2nd Semester cohort at STIAS.

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Of oxen, trees, sardines and stones: Writing a multispecies environmental history of the ‘Big Hole’, Kimberley South Africa, 1870-1920

The chance find of a diamond, at the foot of a Camelthorn tree on a kopje in South Africa in 1871, initiated an industrial mining revolution, the effects of which continue to reverberate into the present and far into the future.