Methods for Monitoring Heritage at Risk Sites in a Rapidly Changing Environment
Part of: Society for Historical Archaeology 2023
This collection contains the abstracts of the papers presented in 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.
Globally, coastal researchers are documenting increasingly severe rates of climate-driven processes that are actively impacting, even erasing, archaeological records. The scope and urgency of this threat requires a collaborative approach that allows archaeologists and other researchers to share methods and resources, as well as draw on local stakeholders and community members to assist. This symposium will feature case studies for monitoring heritage at risk sites around the world, explore the use of various monitoring methods archaeologists and researchers in other fields are using collaboratively, and discuss best practices for monitoring the impacts to cultural resources in a rapidly changing environment.
Other Keywords
Climate Change •
heritage at risk •
Coastal Heritage •
digital heritage •
Monitoring •
Erosion •
Underwater Archaeology •
Heritage Preservation •
Survey •
Photogrammetry
Geographic Keywords
Southeast US •
Pacific •
Gulf Coast •
Florida •
United States of America (Country) •
United Mexican States (Country) •
Cayman Islands (Country) •
Turks and Caicos Islands (Country) •
Bermuda (Country) •
Territorial Collectivity of Saint Pierre (Country)
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Battling the Climate Crisis: Submerged Cultural Resource Monitoring with Women Veteran Citizen Scientists (2023)
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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. As part of an interdisciplinary marine science “Women Wounded Veterans in National Parks” program, a group of women veterans assisted National Park Service (NPS) underwater archaeologists with a pilot citizen science submerged cultural resources monitoring effort at Dry Tortugas National Park....
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The CHERISH Toolkit: Investigating Heritage and Climate Change in Coastal and Maritime Environments. Case Studies from Wales and Ireland. (2023)
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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. In 2022 the EU-funded CHERISH project published its practice guide and methodology to monitor and understand the past, present and near-future impacts of climate change on the rich coastal heritage of Wales and Ireland. The publication looks at the CHERISH ‘toolkit’ – the range of technology and...
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Coastal Heritage At Risk Task Force-Raising Awareness of Climate Change through Collaboration (2023)
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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. The state of Florida serves as a canary-in-the-coalmine of the impacts of climate change to the continental US. Untold stories of Florida history missing from the public record will also dissapear as sea-levels rise. Many of these stories are of marginalized groups who encountered violence from...
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A Critical Review of Shoreline Modeling Strategies to Identify Known and Unrecorded Cultural Heritage Sites (2023)
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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. In this paper, I critically assess models that predict how shoreline change will destroy cultural resources on Southeastern Atlantic seaboard in parts of South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida, USA. Archaeological site suitability modeling is often synonymous with environmental determinism. However,...
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CULTCOAST – North Norwegian Heritage at Risk (2023)
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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. Climate change, with increasing temperatures, differing precipitation, decreasing permafrost, more frequent and severe storms, sea level rise, reduction of sea ice, floods, avalanches and changing vegetation. These changes increase the risks of geo-hazards that threaten coastal heritage sites,...
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Drone-based Survey to Mitigate Climate Change Impacts on Scotland’s Eroding Coastal Heritage (2023)
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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. Scotland is a maritime nation and much of its archaeological heritage is located at the coast. This rich heritage is threatened by erosion, accelerated by climate change. Hundreds of sites are vulnerable to destruction, but the scale of the issue far outweighs available resources for...
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A Flood of Data: Site Resiliency in and Along Virginia’s Rivers (2023)
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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. In 2018 hurricanes Michael and Florence caused damage across wide swaths of Virginia. In response, an Emergency Supplemental Historic Preservation Fund (ESHPF) was created by the U.S. Congress and awarded to eligible states by the National Park Service. The Virginia Department of Historic...
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Future of Climate Change: A Discussion on the Importance of Protecting Historic Vessels. (2023)
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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. Climate change and the effects it has on cultural resources worldwide is not new to the discipline of archaeology. Archaeological sites and landscapes have been at the forefront of the climate change protection efforts. In regard to artifacts, the ability to curate these items in environmentally...
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In Small Things Eroding: Mitigating Climate Crisis Impacts on Collections through 3D Digital Heritage (2023)
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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. Impacts from the climate crisis extend past site boundaries and into their material collections. Artifacts are being washed away before sites can be properly documented and collected. Meanwhile, curation facilities, already under duress from the curation crisis, are experiencing more pressure from...
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Living by Gichigami (Lake Superior): A Collaborative Approach to Managing Shoreline Sites in Miskwaabikang (Red Cliff, Wisconsin, USA) (2023)
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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. 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...
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The MarEA Project: A Methodology to Identify and Monitor Morocco’s At-risk Coastal Heritage (2023)
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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. 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....
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Microbiologically-Influenced Corrosion of Submerged World War II Plane Wrecks: Case Studies from Hawaiʻi (2023)
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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. Archaeologists have increasingly examined the natural forces that threaten submerged cultural heritage resources. For metallic sites, such as sunken steamships and aircraft, corrosion has garnered a considerable amount of this interest. While general corrosion resulting from exposure to seawater...
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Monitoring At Risk Sites Using 3D Digital Heritage (2023)
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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. 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...
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Mose In the Middle: Terrestrial and Maritime Methods Meet In St. Augustine, An Update (2023)
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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. The site of Fort Mose in St. Augustine, Florida, faces considerable environmental threat. Remains of the fort are located on a small hammock north of the colonial city. Once connected to the mainland by agricultural fields, the fort was isolated by dredging in the early 20th century, and now storm...
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Multi-scalar Studies of Coastal Heritage in Southwest Florida: Community-based Archaeology’s Contributions (2023)
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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,...
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New Methods for New Materials: Contemporary Archaeology and Coastal Plastic Pollution (2023)
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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. As the issue of plastic pollution grows, coastal and maritime archaeological sites are increasingly being impacted by single-use plastic waste. While we can see these impacts at existing cultural resources, it is important to recognize role of plastic waste in creating entirely new, anthropogenic...
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Not Quite Just "Point and Click:" Terrestrial Laser Scanning (TLS) and Photogrammetry as Aids to Coastal Heritage Monitoring (2023)
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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. In contributing to the dire need for monitoring and documenting heritage sites at risk from sea-level rise and other climate impacts, researchers at the University of West Florida and the Florida Public Archaeology Network are exploring the use of both terrestrial laser scanners (TLS) and...
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Old Meets New: Blending IOS Smartphone Technologies with Citizen Science to Record and Monitor Indigenous Site Loss in Coastal Maine (2023)
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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. Indigenous shell heaps along the coast of Maine preserve a cultural and environmental record spanning millennia; however, climate change-related sea level rise and increased storm intensity and frequency are destroying sites at an alarming rate. To document and monitor site loss, an...
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People of Guana: Dynamic Coastlines, Mutating Methodologies, and Collaborative Science (2023)
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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. For 6,000 years, people have called the Guana Peninsula in Northeast Florida home. Now, natural and cultural resources on the peninsula are at risk of climate change and development impacts. The Guana Tolomato Matanzas Estuarine Research Reserve (NERR) directly manages the southern portion of the...
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Pockoy Island, South Carolina: A Case Study for Collaborative Shoreline Change Research to Heritage at Risk, Coastal Geology, and Community Science Monitoring (2023)
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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. In March 2021, members of the South Carolina Department of Natural Resources (SCDNR) Archaeology, Geology, and Marine Biology teams began a collaborative shoreline monitoring project on Pockoy Island (Botany Bay Plantation Heritage Preserve, Charleston County, SC). The project objectives were to...