Rising sea levels (Other Keyword)
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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. People experience historic sites as part of landscapes through environmental and cultural aspects of heritage. This presentation offers the initial steps toward an approach for coastal sites on the Florida Gulf Coast at multiple spatial and temporal scales using techniques from archaeology,...
Popular Beliefs of Safety in an Age of Rising Sea Levels: Public Archaeology as a Means to Counter Exceptionalism on the Florida Gulf Coast (2018)
Before every hurricane season, the myth and popular belief that Sarasota, a medium-sized city on Florida’s Gulf Coast, is safe from hurricane gets repeated in the local newspaper. Like many folktales, the story that pre-Columbian Native American burial mounds or Ringling Brother Circus performers knew of a special quality to the region or their spirits protect it comforts the ever growing population living on the Gulf of Mexico coastline. With the majority of the residents having no long-term...