Bridging Science and Service: How Archaeologists Address Climate Change

DOCUMENT Citation Only Andrew Womack.

This is an abstract from the "Bridging Science and Service: How Archaeologists Address Climate Change" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Over the last two decades East Asian archaeology has seen an increasing move towards the use of archaeometric analyses to gain deeper insights into past human realities, especially the relationship between climatic and cultural change. However, a lack of collaboration between scholars in the fields of archaeology...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Carole Nash.

This is an abstract from the "Bridging Science and Service: How Archaeologists Address Climate Change" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The future of American archaeology demands that practitioners identify the distinction between scientific scholarship and service as not only spurious but harmful to our discipline. The academic luxury of privileging scholarship as the driver of disciplinary progress undermines the value of the everyday work,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Heather Wholey.

This is an abstract from the "Bridging Science and Service: How Archaeologists Address Climate Change" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Often when we envision the future of archaeology, particularly archaeology education, factoring in and keeping up with new and advanced field and lab technologies spring to mind. At the same time, traditional archaeology education (e.g. material culture, chronology, spatial analysis) must continue to address...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Katharine Napora.

This is an abstract from the "Bridging Science and Service: How Archaeologists Address Climate Change" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Archaeology is an ideal discipline by which to introduce students to integrated humanistic and scientific analyses, including those focused on studying the cultural responses regarding, and the modern impacts of, climate change. Here, we discuss the development of an experiential educational archaeological...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Peter Biehl.

This is an abstract from the "Bridging Science and Service: How Archaeologists Address Climate Change" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. As a matter of fundamental importance to the archaeology (and heritage) of climate change, climate change studies should become a common feature of archaeology (within anthropological and classical archaeology) curricula in both undergraduate and graduate studies. Teaching and training in the archaeology of climate...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Caitlin Rankin.

This is an abstract from the "Bridging Science and Service: How Archaeologists Address Climate Change" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. One of the four main strategic goals of the United States Department of the Interior is to conserve, protect, manage, and restore natural and cultural resources despite climate change and other stressors. To achieve this goal, the Bureau of Land Management's Battle Mountain District Office, which oversees over 10...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kurt Dongoske.

This is an abstract from the "Bridging Science and Service: How Archaeologists Address Climate Change" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The effects of climate change disproportionately impact indigenous peoples and their deep time and deep space adaptive capacities. Diminishments in such capacities are overwhelmingly the product of the converging courses of capitalism, industrialism, and colonialism. This presentation examines how colonial- and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Hailey Tollner.

This is an abstract from the "Bridging Science and Service: How Archaeologists Address Climate Change" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The inclusion of archaeology in the conversation of climate justice has expanded in recent years, but much of this activism is focused on higher levels of centralized governments, with calls for archaeology to be recognized as a source for sustainability policy suggestions. The most effective activism does not...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Miriam Belmaker.

This is an abstract from the "Bridging Science and Service: How Archaeologists Address Climate Change" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. ‘Ubeidiya, Israel, is an early Pleistocene site with a remarkable history of 0.5 million years of human occupation and detailed climate and environmental changes record. Discovered in 1960, the site has been systematically excavated, with the most recent excavation in 2021-2022. However, a period of neglect left...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Nikki Wu.

This is an abstract from the "Bridging Science and Service: How Archaeologists Address Climate Change" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. <html> Applied zooarchaeology, using multiple facets of scientific research, can address modern problems related to climate change. As six out of seven sea turtle species are currently listed as endangered or vulnerable on the International Union for Conservation of Nature Red List, one way to address climate change...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Sarah Miller.

This is an abstract from the "Bridging Science and Service: How Archaeologists Address Climate Change" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Gullah/Geechee people in Nassau County, Florida, have an uphill battle when it comes to cultural continuity and preservation of their historic black landscapes. Heir’s properties and taxation are complicated issues that threaten coastal African-American communities throughout the southeast. The federal...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Juliette Mitchell.

This is an abstract from the "Bridging Science and Service: How Archaeologists Address Climate Change" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Scotland benefits from having a mature methodology for the national assessment of threats to coastal heritage. Coastal surveys now incorporate community participation and a process of ongoing prioritisation. The approach has been highly effective in engaging the public in thoughtful dialogue and practical action...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Anne Jensen.

This is an abstract from the "Bridging Science and Service: How Archaeologists Address Climate Change" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. <html> Most of us probably went into archaeology because we were curious about humans in the past. Traditional archaeological education, from theoretical to practical (field schools), focused on answering our scientific questions. How best to employ that information in today’s modern world was rarely considered....