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This is an abstract from the session entitled "The Intersection Between Natural and Cultural Heritage and the Pressing Threats to Both", at the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Spread across the Blue Pacific are more than 3,800 shipwrecks resulting from WWII and the nuclear testing programs across the region. Containing significant quantities of petrochemicals and ordnance, over the past 75+ years, these potentially polluting wrecks (PPWs) have deteriorated, with...
History of Industrial Pollution in Cataño, Puerto Rico (2024)
This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The municipality of Cataño in the San Juan Metro Area has long been impacted by industrial pollution, beginning with early colonial gold extraction and smelting in the 16th Century, the monocultural plantation export economy, and, more recently, due to a petroleum refinery and other large-scale industrial activities. The effects of...
Maritime archaeology of oil tanker shipwrecks from World War II (2019)
This is an abstract from the "Developing Standard Methods, Public Interpretation, and Management Strategies on Submerged Military Archaeology Sites" session, at the 2019 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. World War II awakened the industrial power of the United States. Supplying and waging war across two oceans, the US relied on tankers to move oil to its naval fleets and those of its allies. Carrying the fuel that drove the American war machine, these tankers became...
The Materiality of Toxicity: Contemporary Archaeology of a Superfund Site in Northern New Jersey (2025)
This is an abstract from the session entitled "Critical Issues in Contemporary Archaeology & Historical Archaeology: Limits, Opportunities, Challenges", at the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. First listed in 1982, the designation of the Ringwood Mines superfund site was the formal documentation of the illegal dumping of industrial waste by the Ford Motor Company in the 1960s and 70s. The primary pollutant was paint sludge, a waste product from Ford's...
PROJECT TANGAROA: A Global Framework for the Near-and Long-Term Assessment, Intervention and Sharing of Data for Potentially Polluting Wrecks (2025)
This is an abstract from the session entitled "The Intersection Between Natural and Cultural Heritage and the Pressing Threats to Both", at the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Globally over 8,500 wrecks are classified as ‘potentially polluting wrecks’ (PPWs) mainly originating from the two World Wars, and containing oil, chemicals and munitions. There is an increasing risk of pollution impacting the ocean environment and coastal communities from these wrecks,...
Rethinking The Cultural and Natural Dimensions of Landscape Pollution in the Faynan Valley, Southern Jordan (2015)
The human impact on marginal environments is an issue that has especially affected societies in the Middle East during the past 8,000 years, a time when some of the most significant political and economic developments in the history of human societies took place. Such development often permanently altered the character of these fragile ecosystems. Landscape degradation, especially heavy metal pollution, is a poignant example of the deleterious effects that humans can have on the environment. We...