Cultural Heritage During Crises: Crime, Conflict, and Climate Change
Part of: Society for Historical Archaeology 2023
This collection contains the abstracts of the papers presented in the session entitled "Cultural Heritage During Crises: Crime, Conflict, and Climate Change," at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology.
As the Society for Historical Archaeology gathers to examine 'global archaeologies', the past year has witnessed cultural heritage under threat due to criminal activity, conflict, and climate change. Contributors explore these urgent challenges, from the war to climate change protestors targeting works of fine art. The session examines heritage crime and culture in crisis. Heritage crime is widespread and include transnational trafficking, looting and nighthawking, and criminal damage, but there is also increase looting, trafficking, and destruction of heritage in current crises around the world, whether war, economic depression, or climate change.
Other Keywords
Heritage crime •
Protection •
Climate Change •
Rural Areas •
Cultural Heritage •
conflict •
Cultural Property Protection •
Central America •
antiquities trafficking •
zemiology
Geographic Keywords
Central and North America
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Closing Pandora’s Box: Examining The Long-Term Legacy Of Initiatives To Protect Cultural Heritage During Periods Of Armed Conflict. (2023)
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This is an abstract from the session entitled "Cultural Heritage During Crises: Crime, Conflict, and Climate Change", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. From Yemen to the Ukraine, armed conflict continues to threaten cultural heritage around the world. Archaeological sites, architectural monuments, and artefacts can all find themselves in the crosshairs, at risk of systematic looting, collateral damage, or targeted destruction. Cultural heritage stakeholders...
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The Disparate and Unexpected Impacts of Climate Change and Other Crises on Cultural Heritage: Case Studies from Three Continents (2023)
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This is an abstract from the session entitled "Cultural Heritage During Crises: Crime, Conflict, and Climate Change", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Some of the impacts of climate change and other crises on cultural resources have been anticipated by archaeologists, such as rising sea level, but there are also numerous less obvious or even unexpected impacts of these crises. Using recent archaeological investigations in Central and North America as case...
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Heritage Crime: Focus on the rural (2023)
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This is an abstract from the session entitled "Cultural Heritage During Crises: Crime, Conflict, and Climate Change", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In the past decade, the scope of heritage crime as a global research field has developed significantly. The term has increased in usage, and the crimes that it has been used to describe have also diversified. In this paper I consider the issue of heritage crime in rural areas, considering the diversity not...
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The Trades in Illicit Antiquities: Theory and Complexity in Heritage Crime (2023)
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This is an abstract from the session entitled "Cultural Heritage During Crises: Crime, Conflict, and Climate Change", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The study of antiquities trafficking has a legnthy history, but engagement has significantly increased following the coverage of cultural heritage exploitation by Islamic State from 2006-2019. The resulting growth in the field – including criminologists, anthropologists, archaeologists, legal experts, law...