The Anthropocene concept frames an emerging new understanding of the human–Earth relationship. It represents a profound temporal integration that brings historical periodization on a par with geological time and creates entanglements between timescales that were previously seen as detached. Because the Anthropocene gets this role of a unifying planetary concept, the ways in which vast geological timescales were incorporated into human history are often taken for granted. By tracing the early history of the processes of synchronizing human and geological timescales, this article aims to historicize the Anthropocene concept. The work of bridging divides between human and geological time was renegotiated and took new directions in physical geography and cognate sciences from the middle decades of the twentieth century. Through researchers such as Ahlmann (Sweden), Seligman (United Kingdom), and Dansgaard (Denmark) in geography and glaciology and Davis (United States) and Iversen (Denmark) in palynology and biogeography, methodologies that became used in synchronizing planetary timescales were discussed and practiced for integrative understanding well before the Anthropocene concept emerged. This article shows through studies of their theoretical assumptions and research practices that the Anthropocene could be conceived as a result of a longer history of production of integrative geo-anthropological time. It also shows the embedding of concepts and methodologies from neighboring fields of significance for geography. By situating and historicizing spaces and actors, texture is added to the Anthropocene, a concept that has hitherto often been detached from the specific contexts and geographies of the scientific work that enabled its emergence.

人类世概念构架了对人地关系的新认识。它代表了深刻的时间整合，将历史周期与地质时间相提并论，并在以前被视为分离的时标之间产生了纠缠。由于人类世起着统一行星概念的作用，因此人们常常认为将巨大的地质时标纳入人类历史的方式是理所当然的。通过追溯人类和地质时标同步过程的早期历史，本文旨在对人类世概念进行历史化。重新协商了弥合人类与地质时间之间的鸿沟的工作，并从20世纪中叶开始在自然地理学和相关科学领域提出了新的方向。通过研究人员，例如地理和冰川学的Ahlmann（瑞典），Seligman（英国）和Dansgaard（丹麦），以及孢粉学和生物地理学的Davis（美国）和Iversen（丹麦），讨论了用于同步行星时标的方法。并在人类世概念出现之前就进行了综合理解的实践。本文通过对他们的理论假设和研究实践的研究表明，人类世可以被认为是地球人类学综合时期生产历史较长的结果。它还显示了对地理学具有重要意义的相邻领域的概念和方法的嵌入。通过对空间和演员进行定位和历史化，将纹理添加到人类世，