This session aims to bring together multidisciplinary approaches to understanding relationships between people (and human evolution) and the environment in Africa. This draws from evidence from the archaeological and anthropological record over prehistoric to historic timescales, coupled with environmental, climatic, ecological, paleontological and isotopic data from different depositional or occupational settings. Particular topics may include deep-time human evolution, the African Humid Period and the Green Sahara, societal responses to climate change, resilience and adaptation strategies, water management in semiarid environments, and human imprints upon environmental systems. Contributions are invited from these and other fields that explore human-environment relationships in Africa in the Quaternary and Holocene.