Assessing Threats to Coastal Sites: A Trial Run on St Croix, USVI

Summary

The International Association for Caribbean Archaeology's Endangered Sites Task Force is concerned about the threat to coastal sites by rising sea levels. In March 2017, a small team of Mercer University non-archaeology students participated in a project on ST Croix, USVI, to determine how local populations could best provide measurable information to professional archaeologists and cultural resource managers. The five-day project assessed ten sites assigned by the USVI Territorial Archaeologist. Through trial and error, the resulting 'Mercer Method' of data collection proved that using available smartphones and GPS proved much more effective than traditional survey procedures.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Society for American Archaeology 83rd Annual Meeting, Washington, DC (2018)

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Abstract Id(s): 20248