A Perfect Storm: Alternative Mitigation Strategies for Louisiana’s Gulf Coast

Summary

This is an abstract from the "Accelerating Environmental Change Threats to Cultural Heritage: Serious Challenges, Promising Responses" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

A concatenation of natural and anthropogenic processes involving coastal erosion, subsidence and relative sea-level rise are obliterating evidence for millennia of sustainable human communities on Louisiana’s Gulf Coast. The Mississippi River Delta Archeological Mitigation (MRDAM) project is building on previous studies and datasets to understand and respond to coastal land loss. MRDAM is creating a database, establishing partnerships and undertaking consultations for inventory, evaluation and alternative mitigation of impacted and endangered cultural properties. The data are used to develop predictive statements for different environmental settings. This serves as a model for cultural heritage management in other coastal regions in crisis.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Accelerating Environmental Change Threats to Cultural Heritage: Serious Challenges, Promising Responses   •
• Society for American Archaeology 84th Annual Meeting, Albuquerque, NM (2019)

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Abstract Id(s): 25752