Case Studies from SHA’s Heritage at Risk Committee

Part of: Society for Historical Archaeology 2019

This collection contains the abstracts of the papers presented in the session entitled "Case Studies from SHA’s Heritage at Risk Committee," at the 2019 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology.

SHA created the Heritage at Risk Committee (HARC) in 2016 to promote research on endangered sites, build best practice examples for engaging the public, and develop resources for use by SHA members. This inaugural session brings founding committee members together to shine a light on impacts from climate change and other disasters on cultural resources, highlight partnerships between multidisciplinary professionals and the public, and feature collaborations across other committees within SHA. Papers will describe historic sites and impacts, but also offer recommendations of future action to protect cultural resources as a critical component of resilient communities.

Other Keywords
Climate Change • Public Archaeology • heritage at risk • Management • Erosion • Climate • Underwater Archaeology • Lighthouse • Planning • Submerged Resources

Temporal Keywords
Modern

Geographic Keywords
Coahuila (State / Territory) • New Mexico (State / Territory) • Oklahoma (State / Territory) • Arizona (State / Territory) • Texas (State / Territory) • Sonora (State / Territory) • United States of America (Country) • Chihuahua (State / Territory) • Nuevo Leon (State / Territory) • Delaware (State / Territory)

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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...

  • Challenges and Opportunities for the Heritage at Risk Community (2019)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Sarah Miller.

    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 2016 the Florida Public Archaeology Network (HMS) launched the Heritage Monitoring Scout (HMS Florida) program to engage the public in monitoring sites predicted to be impacted by climate change. Since that time the program continues to grow, and with each year faces new challenges. This paper will discuss initial obstancles to...

  • Heritage Monitoring Underwater: Launching the Submerged Heritage Monitoring Scouts Florida Program (2019)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Rachael Kangas. Jeffrey T. Moates. Brenda Altmeier. Sara Ayers-Rigsby.

    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. The Florida Public Archaeology Network (FPAN) partnered with the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary (FKNMS) to create a submerged cultural resource monitoring program based on the successful Heritage Monitoring Scouts (HMS) Florida, launched by FPAN in 2016. Many organizations have ongoing natural resource monitoring programs that...

  • Learning from Loss 2018 (2019)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only tom dawson. Sally Foster. Joanna Hambly. William B. Lees. Sarah Miller. Marcy Rockman.

    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...

  • Shining a Light on the Past: Jupiter Inlet (2019)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Sara Ayers-Rigsby. Mallory Fenn.

    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. The Jupiter Inlet Lighthouse is one element of a multi-component site at risk due to storm surge, erosion, and inclement weather events.  The Florida Public Archaeology Network's southeast region has documented the site after hurricanes, and trained local volunteers to assess damage to the site.  This paper will document the effect of...

  • Shoreline Site Preservation by Dredge Spoil (2019)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Judith Bense.

    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. Shoreline erosion is a constant detrimental process at archaeological sites along waterways. Along many waterways, channel dredging is a necessary activity resulting in huge amounts of spoil placed along shorelines ,often where archaeological sites are located. In our research of four sequential Spanish colonial presidios from the...

  • Submerged but Not Forgotten: Considering Climate Change Impacts on Underwater Archaeological Heritage (2019)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Nicole Grinnan.

    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. While many studies have focused on understanding and mitigating the effects of climate change on terrestrial archaeological heritage sites, far fewer have sought to explore impacts on submerged sites. New shoreline dynamics, changes in salinity, ocean acidification, and rising water temperatures are all serious potential issues for...

  • Using Unmanned Aerial Systems and Historical Maps to Monitor Present and Predict Future Shoreline Impacts (2019)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Lindsey Cochran.

    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. Natural and anthropogenic climate changes, specifically from sea-level rise, are drastically reshaping coastal waterways and shorelines. Few regional predictive models capture hyper-local changes. In response, this research project combined geospatial information captured with an unmanned areial system (AUS) with georeferenced maps...