The Intersection Between Natural and Cultural Heritage and the Pressing Threats to Both

DOCUMENT Citation Only Garry Momber. Brandon Mason.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "The Intersection Between Natural and Cultural Heritage and the Pressing Threats to Both", at the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Maritime cultural heritage is under increasing threats from changes in the climate and the oceans. Many sites along the coastline and underwater are now being eroded and revealed after thousands of years. While this provides more information about our past it is also a direct indicator of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jodi A. Barnes. Katie Luciano. Jamie Dozier.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "The Intersection Between Natural and Cultural Heritage and the Pressing Threats to Both", at the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In 2017, Hurricane Irma caused maximum inundation levels of 3 to 5 feet above ground level along the coast of much of South Carolina, causing severe beach erosion. That storm brought attention to the archaeological resources on Cat, North, and South Islands as heritage sites around the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Oluseyi O. Agbelusi.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "The Intersection Between Natural and Cultural Heritage and the Pressing Threats to Both", at the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. This paper examines the impacts of climate change on natural and cultural heritage in coastal Sierra Leone during the Atlantic slave trade and abolition era. It focuses on environmental stresses on archaeological records, heritage places, and communities, using Bunce Island and neighboring...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Alyssa V Pietraszek. Beverly N Goodman-Tchernov.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "The Intersection Between Natural and Cultural Heritage and the Pressing Threats to Both", at the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Coastal zones are dynamic environments, constantly reshaped by sediment deposition, erosion, sea-level fluctuations, shoreline retreat, and episodic events such as hurricanes, earthquakes, and tsunamis. These processes, operating at varied temporal and spatial scales, pose significant...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Matthew Carter. Augustine Kohler. Ashley Meredith. Peter Aten. Ranger Walter. Michael Brennan. James Delgado. Annika Andresen.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "The Intersection Between Natural and Cultural Heritage and the Pressing Threats to Both", at the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Spread across the Blue Pacific are more than 3,800 shipwrecks resulting from WWII and the nuclear testing programs across the region. Containing significant quantities of petrochemicals and ordnance, over the past 75+ years, these potentially polluting wrecks (PPWs) have deteriorated, with...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Juanita Bonnifield.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "The Intersection Between Natural and Cultural Heritage and the Pressing Threats to Both", at the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In 2020 and 2021 the Castle and KNP Complex Fires burned through multiple sequoia groves in Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks resulting in unprecedented loss of iconic monarch sequoias. Overshadowed by the headline grabbing ecological devastation are the impacts to the many...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jillyan M Corrales.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "The Intersection Between Natural and Cultural Heritage and the Pressing Threats to Both", at the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The multi-component site known as 8SJ40 is perhaps most widely recognized as the site of the first legally sanctioned free Black settlement in the United States, called Fort Mose. However, long before the establishment of the Fort Mose community, this land was utilized by indigenous...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Michael L. Brennan.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "The Intersection Between Natural and Cultural Heritage and the Pressing Threats to Both", at the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Assessments of potential pollution risks from shipwrecks have included a variety of wrecks, including warships and merchant vessels from both world wars, tankers lost in storms, ships carrying munitions, and even a U-boat with a cargo of solid mercury. With the majority of these wrecks...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Alexis Catsambis. Blair M Atcheson.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "The Intersection Between Natural and Cultural Heritage and the Pressing Threats to Both", at the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The U.S. Navy’s Naval History and Heritage Command (NHHC) and the National Park Service’s Pearl Harbor National Memorial (PERL) are co-stewards of the wreck of USS Arizona (BB-39), which constitutes a National Historic Landmark and a Department of the Navy sunken military craft. It is also...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Isabel Rivera-Collazo. Sophia Perdikaris. Edith Gonzalez. Mariela Declet-Pérez. Jose Garay-Vázquez. Javier García-Colon.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "The Intersection Between Natural and Cultural Heritage and the Pressing Threats to Both", at the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The idea of Natural vs Cultural heritage as separate concepts is incompatible with native identities. The archaeological record of historic and pre-Columbian Indigenous and Afro-Indigenous communities in the Caribbean shows a deep intertwining of culture with the islands’ geology and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Meg Gaillard. Katie Luciano. Kiersten Weber. Larry Lane. Lelia Rice. Reece Spradley.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "The Intersection Between Natural and Cultural Heritage and the Pressing Threats to Both", at the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The South Carolina Department of Natural Resources (SCDNR) owns and manages over 1.2 million acres, of which 176,000 acres are coastal. Within the SCDNR, the South Carolina Heritage Trust Program staff are tasked with protecting some of the state’s most valuable natural and cultural...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Mark Lawrence. Stuart Leather. Simon Burnay.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "The Intersection Between Natural and Cultural Heritage and the Pressing Threats to Both", at the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Globally over 8,500 wrecks are classified as ‘potentially polluting wrecks’ (PPWs) mainly originating from the two World Wars, and containing oil, chemicals and munitions. There is an increasing risk of pollution impacting the ocean environment and coastal communities from these wrecks,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Lori Lee.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "The Intersection Between Natural and Cultural Heritage and the Pressing Threats to Both", at the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Fort Mose is the first legally-sanctioned free black community in what became the United States. This unique community, formed by self-emancipated Africans, provides a glimpse into the imagination, construction, and conflicted nature of early stages of freedom in Spanish St. Augustine....

DOCUMENT Citation Only William Wilson.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "The Intersection Between Natural and Cultural Heritage and the Pressing Threats to Both", at the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. For decades, “spoil” and “disposal” material were the terms used to characterize dredged sediment. The expansion of many American harbors, which often includes the deepening of existing channels, continues to relocate large volumes of sediment. In the past coastal engineers solved this...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Athena Trakadas.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "The Intersection Between Natural and Cultural Heritage and the Pressing Threats to Both", at the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The essential role of integrated maritime and underwater cultural heritage (MUCH) with natural heritage – Ocean Heritage – in delivering sustainable development in our seas and oceans is particularly relevant to achieving the outcomes of the UN Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Paul W Gates.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "The Intersection Between Natural and Cultural Heritage and the Pressing Threats to Both", at the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. For more than forty years, Superfund sites identified by the United States after the passing of the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 have been of interest to archaeologists for the prehistoric and historic archaeological resources that are, at...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Marijo Gauthier-Bérubé. Marie-Ange Croft. Quentin Beauvais. Marc-André Bernier. Dany Dumont. Urs Neumeier. Guillaume Saint-Onge. Jean-René Thuot. Maxime Gohier.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "The Intersection Between Natural and Cultural Heritage and the Pressing Threats to Both", at the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The project Le naufrage de la flotte Walker (1711): Archéologie d’un lieu de mémoire maritime is bringing together scholars from history, archaeology, literature, oceanography and marine geology to unravel the circumstances surrounding the wreckage of Admiral Walker’s fleet in 1711 in the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Lindsey E Cochran. Ritchison Brandon.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "The Intersection Between Natural and Cultural Heritage and the Pressing Threats to Both", at the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. What happens to a cultural resource after it has eroded from its original context, whether from gradual climate impacts or from a punctuated event like a tropical storm? Brick Kiln Bluff, a quickly eroding estuarine multicomponent site, was previously the living place of Deptford, Mocama,...