Sea Level Rise (Other Keyword)

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At Risk in Delaware: Nature and Culture in Conflict (2019)
DOCUMENT Citation Only John P McCarthy.

This is an abstract from the "Case Studies from SHA’s Heritage at Risk Committee" session, at the 2019 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Delaware is one of the most low-lying coastal regions in the country, and the state has experienced relative sea-level rise at the rate of approximately one inch a decade over the course of the 20th century.  Delaware has recognized as a matter of state policy that sea-level rise is a reality that has affected the state in the past...


Coastal Louisiana’s Vanishing Archaeological Record: The Last Investigations at the Adams Bay Mounds Site (16PL8) (2019)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Brian Ostahowski. Jayur Mehta. Theodore Marks.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Sea level rise coupled with coastal erosion and subsidence has created an unprecedented land loss crisis for coastal Louisiana. This presentation provides an overview of the effects of land loss to coastal Louisiana’s archaeological record observed at different scales (coast-wide, regional, and the individual archaeological site) and highlights the 2018 summer...


Heritage at Risk along the Delaware Bay’s Scenic Byways: Narrating Climate Threats, Legacy and Loss with StoryMaps (2022)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Heather A. Wholey. Joanna Mauerer. Daria Nikitina. Megan Heckert.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The archaeological sites, historic locations and districts, and National Register properties along Delaware Bay’s Scenic Heritage Byways hold the stories of centuries of connections between the communities, cultures and resources of the largest preserved coastal marshes along the East Atlantic coast. Probablistic projections of...


Impact of Rising Sea Levels on Native American Cultural Sites in Southern California (2015)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Jeannine Pedersen. Jere H. Lipps.

Humans arrived in Southern California about 13,000 years ago, shortly after sea level began rising following the last glaciation. Most of their sites along the shoreline of the time have been inundated and are unknown. Now hundreds of remaining sites on-shore are threatened, or will be threatened, in the foreseeable future by rising sea levels. A survey of prehistoric and historic human site elevations in Southern California reveals the 1.4 m rise in sea level expected in 2100 due only to the...


Impacts of population resettlement due to sea level rise on archaeological resources: a case study (2016)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Ani St. Amand. Dan Sandweiss. Alice Kelley.

Coastal communities in the United States, as well as other portions of the world, are contending with challenges posed by sea level rise. As coastal areas are inundated and subjected to coastal processes, action is generally limited to mitigation of sites with great local significance experiencing immediate threat, while the destruction of archaeological sites by the resettlement of affected communities has been given little attention. This secondary impact of climate change threatens cultural...


Managing the Effects of Erosion and Sea Level Rise on Archaeological Sites at Fort Eustis, Newport News, Virginia (2018)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Scott Seibel. Christopher McDaid.

Fort Eustis, part of Joint Base Langley-Eustis, located on Mulberry Island along the James River in Virginia, is extremely vulnerable to the threat of erosion resulting from sea level rise, increased tidal range, and flooding from increased rainfall and storm surge. Currently, dozens of archaeological sites on the island are experiencing damage resulting from erosion, including sites where human remains have been found protruding from erosional scarps. To meet the installation’s short and...


The MarEA Project: A Methodology to Identify and Monitor Morocco’s At-risk Coastal Heritage (2023)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Athena Trakadas. Azzedine Karra. Crystal El Safadi. Lucy Blue.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Methods for Monitoring Heritage at Risk Sites in a Rapidly Changing Environment", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Throughout the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), natural and anthropogenic factors are impacting the coastal archaeological record. Documenting and monitoring the threats to these non-renewable Maritime Cultural Heritage (MCH) resources is an essential contribution to the management process....


Modeling sea level rise and shoreline change in a complex sedimentary environment: Case study from Chesapeake Bay (2015)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Leslie Reeder-Myers.

Accurate estimates of past shoreline locations are important for archaeologist interested in the complex relationships between sea level rise and human ecology. However, shoreline reconstructions require careful consideration of highly variable eustatic, isostatic, tectonic, and sedimentary processes. In the Chesapeake Bay, records from marsh cores have produced high resolution models of relative sea level rise since the Bay first emerged between 8000-7000 BP, influenced by both global sea level...


Puerto Rican Cultural Heritage Under Threat by Climate Change (2017)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Isabel Rivera-Collazo. Tom Dawson.

As a tropical, oceanic island in the northeastern Caribbean Sea, Puerto Rico is feeling the effects of climate change. Rising sea level, increased storminess, and unpredictable sudden weather events combine with heavy coastal occupation and little or no coherent development planning, to increase social vulnerability to coastal change. The burden of economic problems that the Island is suffering from also increases the complexities of working towards resiliency. Within this context, coastal...


Shell Middens and Sea Level Rise: Learning from the Past and Preparing for the Future (2017)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Leslie Reeder-Myers. Torben Rick.

Shell middens, like other forms of coastal cultural heritage, are heavily threatened by sea level rise, climate change, and human land use. These sites, however, store information about these same challenges in the past. We present results from recent research near the mouth of the Rhode River, a small sub-estuary of Chesapeake Bay in eastern North America. We chose an area we knew well, having worked on the 31 previously recorded shell middens, to test the importance of more specialized...


Time and Tide Wait for no Man: Responses to Sea Level Rise on Virginia's Eastern Shore (2019)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Michael Barber.

This is an abstract from the "The Middle Atlantic Regional Transect Approach to Climate Change Impacts on Archaeological Resources" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. With sea level rise inevitable, archaeologists can no longer cling to the 'Preservation in Place" paradigm as there will no longer be a place. The 'place' of the past will readily become the eroding beach and, eventually, sea bottom. The Threatened Sites Program of DHR anticipated the...