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Welcome to Friends of the Pleistocene (FOP), founded in 002010. Friends of the Pleistocene is a research and communication design organization. We are dedicated to exploring the conjuncture between landscape and contemporary human activity at sites shaped by the geologic epoch of the Pleistocene (2.588 million to 10000 years BP, Before Present). Through our projects, we create contexts and speculative tools for humans to recalibrate their sense of place within the geologic timescale. As a FOP member, you can evolve new pathways of cognition and use them to sense, design, and act in accord with deep time.


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Reading Deep Time In The Landscape

Reading Deep Time In The Landscape

Deep time is the vast, almost incomprehensible span of the Earth's history — measured not in years but in millions and tens...

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Lake Bonneville And The Salt Flats

Lake Bonneville And The Salt Flats

The Bonneville Salt Flats are one of the flattest places on Earth — a blinding white plain where the curvature of the...

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Glacial Landforms And How To Read Them

Glacial Landforms And How To Read Them

For long stretches of the Pleistocene, ice covered vast areas of North America, northern Europe and Asia. When the glaciers finally withdrew,...

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