Monitoring and Managing Eroding Archaeological Resources

Summary

This is an abstract from the "The Middle Atlantic Regional Transect Approach to Climate Change Impacts on Archaeological Resources" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

Fort Eustis is an approximately 8,000 acre peninsula bound by the Warwick and James rivers in Virginia’s Tidewater region. There are 234 identified archaeological sites on Fort Eustis that range in age from 10,000 BCE to the early twentieth century. In 2010 the Fort Eustis Cultural Resources Management Program began an archaeological site monitoring program. The data from that effort indicated that erosion along the rivers and creeks was a significant threat to the archaeological record of Fort Eustis. An analysis of the monitoring results identified thirty-one sites that warranted having management strategies developed. The resulting study has been the basis for a program of temporary stabilization, National Register of Historic Places evaluations, and more permanent shoreline stabilization. This paper will address how the Fort Eustis Cultural Resources Management Program is developing a methodology to determine which sites warrant protection in place, which warrant data recovery, and which warrant no protective measures.

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• The Middle Atlantic Regional Transect Approach to Climate Change Impacts on Archaeological Resources

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Abstract Id(s): 24789