Climate Change, Archaeology, and Native Expertise: an Ice Patch Success Story
Author(s): Pei-Lin Yu
Year: 2016
Summary
Archaeologists are in two positions to tackle issues of climate change and the human past: first as stewards of archaeological sites and cultural heritage values, and second, as scientists curious about the interrelationship between human communities, habitats, and climates. The rate of discoveries of cultural heritage remains is accelerating due to climate change phenomena, landscape changes and human activity. Importantly, Native Americans, First Nations, Native Hawaiians, and other indigenous descendant communities are at the front lines of climate change and have a major stake in informing archaeologists about traditional ecological knowledge impacts, and how best to steward and learn from cultural heritage in the face of unavoidable climate change. I will use the Ice Patch Archaeology and Paleoecology Project in Glacier National Park as an example.
Cite this Record
Climate Change, Archaeology, and Native Expertise: an Ice Patch Success Story. Pei-Lin Yu. Presented at Society for American Archaeology, Orlando, FL. 2016 ( tDAR id: 405569) ; doi:10.6067/XCV8TB18PR
Keywords
Culture
Salish Kootenai and Blackfeet
Material
Fauna
Investigation Types
Consultation
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Environment Research
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Heritage Management
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Site Stewardship Monitoring
General
ice patch archaeology
Temporal Coverage
Calendar Date: 1000 to 2016
Spatial Coverage
min long: -116.191; min lat: 47.279 ; max long: -111.27; max lat: 49.44 ;
File Information
| Name | Size | Creation Date | Date Uploaded | Access | |
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| YU-et-al-SAA-Ice-Patch-Talk-2016-final.pdf | 3.32mb | May 10, 2016 | May 10, 2016 4:44:48 PM | Public | |
| SAA 2016 Ice Patch presentation | |||||