Cultural Heritage During Crises: Crime, Conflict, and Climate Change

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.