Climate Change (Other Keyword)
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This is an abstract from the session entitled "Beyond the Shoreline: Heritage at Risk at Inland Sites" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. This paper explores the relationship between historical conditions of inequality in the archaeological record and climate-induced coastal erosion in the Southeast and Middle Atlantic regions. Recent studies have demonstrated that a significant number of archaeological sites will be affected by rising sea levels and...
Impacts to Sites Along the Santa Fe River, FL (2022)
This is an abstract from the session entitled "Beyond the Shoreline: Heritage at Risk at Inland Sites" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. While the dramatic effects of climate change can easily be observed along coastal areas, environmental impacts are not often recognized at inland sites. The variety of conditions created by a changing climate have the potential to affect previously stable sites beyond the shore. This paper will review significant sites...
In Hot Water: Climate Change and Underwater Archaeology (2016)
Climate change is one of the greatest challenges facing humanity. To date, however, archaeologists are still developing their relevancy and role in informing climate change research, management strategies, and understanding. Coastal and underwater archaeological research has significant potential to offer insights into past human adaptations to climate change, and to provide an anthropogenic lens through which the history of climate change might be viewed. In addition to providing historical...
Increasing Ocean Literacy and Citizen Science Opportunities for Submerged Cultural Resources in Florida (2018)
In 2016 the Florida Public Archaeology Network launched a new program Heritage Monitoring Scouts (HMS Florida) to increase scientific literacy among the public on impacts to cultural sites by climate change. More than 200 HMS volunteers monitored over 200 sites, both terrestrial and submerged. This paper will share results from the first year of the site stewardship program and take a critical look at how to increase ocean literacy, expand underwater citizen science opportunities, and raise...
International Efforts to Engage with Climate Based Threats to Cultural Heritage (2016)
As climate change threats to cultural heritage become more apparent a range of responses is emerging across the globe. This session will discuss examples of different approaches to this problem in areas outside of the United States. While white papers and policy statements will be discussed the main focus will be on 'on the ground' programs that are monitoring, and/or implementing mitigation and adaptation actions to protect cultural heritage around the world. Examples, from Europe, South...
Investigating Climatic Dimensions of the Archaeological Past with Undergraduates Using CADGAP (Climatic Analogs Data Gathering Project) (2018)
Bryson and Murray’s (1979) Climates of Hunger ignited my interest in climate change and human cultural discontinuities over time. Later, as a junior faculty in an undergraduate institution fostering collaborative research between faculty and students, I was encouraged to share my climate-related research methodology with my students. This led to development of a teaching strategy that integrates the study of climate change into the anthropology curriculum in two specific courses, one oriented...
Katie Bar the Door: The Time for Archaeologists to Respond to Climate Change Impacts is Shorter than We Think (2019)
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. Even the most aggressive models of sea level rise don’t predict major inundation in the Middle Atlantic for many decades. However, the time available to archaeologists for managing coastal archaeological sites and mitigating their inevitable destruction may be far shorter than that. As...
LandCover6K: Using Archaeology to Improve Climate Models (2017)
This paper introduces LandCover6k, an international collaboration dedicated to reconstructing Holocene land cover (vegetation) and land use on a global scale. Throughout the Holocene, human land use has led to changes in vegetation as well as having other effects on global climate. These effects are typically modeled (anthropogenic land cover change models, ALCC) using limited historical information, with the results of such models used in climate models. Existing ALCC models differ...
Landscape Archaeology, Watermills and Hydrotechnology on a Greek Island (2016)
A striking feature of the Greek island of Andros's human landscape is the extremely large number of watermills that operated on the island in the recent past. By one estimate, there were on the island, whose territory is only 380 sq km, more than 270 watermills in operation during the last century. Today there are none and not a single ravine on the island has sufficient water flow to power even a single mill. To reconstruct the social, economic, and environmental history of mills on the island,...
LandUse6k North America: Report and Implications (2017)
LandUse6k is a consortium of archaeologists, historical geographers and historians engaged in synthesizing land use data for various slices of time, to be used to improve the efficacy of climate models. These efforts recognize the large impact that anthropogenic land cover change has had on past climate and climate change trajectory. We report on efforts to characterize land use through time for North America describing methods and issues. We estimate how these characterizations allow for more...
Late Glacial Climate Change and the Dispersal of Humans to Beringia: An Ecological Model (2016)
New studies of ancient as well as modern human genomes suggest that the immediate ancestors of Native Americans began to disperse from greater northeast Asia to Beringia after the last glacial maximum, roughly 20,000 cal BP. These new data require us to reconsider the lengthy incubation period predicted by the Beringian standstill model as well as the place of the Yana RHS site in our understanding of the peopling of Alaska. In this paper, we review the climatic, paleoenvironmental, genomic...
Late Quaternary Isostatic, Eustatic and Climatic Changes (1971)
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Learning from Loss 2018 (2019)
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. In June 2018 interdisciplinary scholars from Scotland and the US convened in Edinburgh to consider action in the face of inevitable loss of coastal and carved stone heritage from accelerated processes related to climate change. The project, "Learning from Loss," was funded by the Scottish Universities Insight Institute with lead...
Learning from Loss 2018: Considering Responses to Accelerated Climate Change in Scotland (2019)
This is an abstract from the "Accelerating Environmental Change Threats to Cultural Heritage: Serious Challenges, Promising Responses" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In June 2018 interdisciplinary scholars from Scotland and the US convened in Edinburgh to consider action in the face of inevitable loss of coastal and carved stone heritage from accelerated processes related to climate change. The project, "Learning from Loss," was funded by the...
“Like Mushrooms after Rain”: Learning the Land on the Late Nineteenth-Century Central Great Plains (USA) (2023)
This is an abstract from the "Archaeology and Landscape Learning for a Climate-Changing World" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. After the Civil War, settlers moved into a Great Plains landscape from which Native Americans had been extirpated; i.e., a foreign land with few local experts. In the case of late nineteenth-century Custer County, Nebraska, settler towns sprang up and disappeared “like mushrooms after rain.” Settlers initially sought out...
Living by Gichigami (Lake Superior): A Collaborative Approach to Managing Shoreline Sites in Miskwaabikang (Red Cliff, Wisconsin, USA) (2023)
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. Gete Anishinaabe Izichigewin Community Archaeological Project (GAICAP) is a collaborative undertaking of the Red Cliff Band of Lake Superior Chippewa’s Tribal Historic Preservation Office (THPO) and academic archaeologists in northern Wisconsin. In 2021 and 2022, extensive shovel-test survey...
Look what just Washed up on the Jersey Shore: Climate Change and its impacts on submerged sites in New Jersey (2019)
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. Beginning in 2013, the office of the New Jersey State Archaeologist began receiving requests to identify artifacts found along the Atlantic shoreline and the Delaware Bay. While finding artifacts along beaches is not new, the substantial increase both in number and locations of finds can...
Maine Midden Minders: Racing the Clock to Document Cultural and Environmental Archives (2020)
This is an abstract from the session entitled "Heritage at Risk: Shifting Responses from Reactive to Proactive" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The Midden Minders program is a citizen-science based project designed to monitor and document the erosion of many of the approximately 2000 archaeological shell middens on the Maine coast. Virtually all these sites are eroding in the face of climate change induced sea level rise and increasing weather...
Mapping Near-Historical Climate Impacts to Coastal Sites (2016)
Historical archaeologists examine material culture dating to the industrial period, which spawned human-induced climate change. We are uniquely positioned to examine changes through the material record. Additionally archeologists have been making and recording observations about the condition of sites for many years. Archeologists in the National Park Service (NPS) have, in doing so, inadvertently left their own record of climate change effects. These observations are stored in NPS’s...
Maritime Heritage at Risk: The Hurricane Irma Damage Assessment and Mitigation Strategy (HIrmaDAMS) Project (2022)
This is an abstract from the session entitled "Fort Mose Above and Below: Terrestrial and Underwater Excavations at the Earliest Free Afro-Diasporic Settlement in the United States" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In 2020, the St. Augustine Lighthouse Archaeological Maritime Program (LAMP) received a Hurricane Irma National Park Service Subgrant to assess and mitigate, or recommend future mitigation activities, for maritime archaeological sites impacted...
Medieval Warmth: Did the Medieval Warm Period Sink the Maya but Make the Mongols? (2015)
World temperatures are now back up to the range last seen in the Medieval Warm Period (MWP), a time known to have caused droughts in many areas, warmer moister weather in others. The droughts may have destroyed lowland Maya civilization, as well as Pueblo III culture, and may also have impacted Khmer civilization in Cambodia, and other tropical cultures. Recently, Mongolia has been shown to have had warmer weather, which would have made life easier for forest and grassland Mongols, though...
Modeling erosion risks for archaeological sites in the American Southwest using GIS and RUSLE (the Revised Universal Soil Loss Equation) (2017)
The greatest climate change related threat to archaeological sites in the American Southwest is soil erosion brought on by hotter temperatures, increasingly intense wildfires, bark beetle infestations, and other subsequent changes in habitats. At Los Alamos National Laboratory in northern New Mexico, we manage 38 square miles of canyons and mesas that contain more than 1700 archaeological sites, most of which are affiliated with Ancestral Pueblo cultures. In order to identify and protect the...
Monitoring and Digital Documentation of Several Plantations in the Tomoka Basin State Parks (2022)
This is an abstract from the session entitled "Beyond the Shoreline: Heritage at Risk at Inland Sites" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The Tomoka Basin State parks, located in northeast Florida, contain numerous 18th and 19th century plantation and industrial sites dating from the Colonial British through the American Territorial periods. In 2020, the Florida Public Archaeology Network partnered with the Florida Park Service to monitor and document...
Monitoring At Risk Sites Using 3D Digital Heritage (2023)
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. Heritage sites around the world are being impacted by the climate crisis, a situation that continues to grow in scope and severity. As archaeologists, land managers and other heritage professionals seek solutions to monitor and mitigate the impacts, 3D digital heritage techniques can assist...
The Moose Hill Site: The Dynamic Interplay of Climate Change, Marine Productivity, Volcanism, and Cultural Transitions on the Kvichak River, Bristol Bay, Alaska. (2015)
The Moose Hill Site is a multi-component settlement along the Kvichak River in Bristol Bay Alaska. The site consists of ~40 semi-subterranean structures with archaeological assemblages representative of the Arctic Small Tool, Norton, Thule, and Koniag traditions. This research focuses on a late Norton tradition occupation at 840 +/- 30 BP and presents a refinement of the complex transition between the regional Norton and the Thule traditions. The timing and method of culture change during this...