Landscape Learning and Climate Change: A Perspective from South-Central Alaska

Summary

This is an abstract from the "Archaeology and Landscape Learning for a Climate-Changing World" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

The circumpolar north is one of the most rapidly warming places on the planet, resulting in changing vegetation, precipitation, and fire regimes along with altered animal migration cycles. Combined these trends are transforming once familiar places into environments to which people are unaccustomed, perhaps even new environments. Here we present a case study of collaborative community-participatory archaeology where ongoing fieldwork in a changing landscape is providing new perspectives on landscape learning in south-central Alaska. Detailed knowledge of geographic principles along with webs of relationships and interconnections throughout the landscape facilitate effective landscape reading especially when people engage in fine-tuned observations of changes. We see this reflected in the archaeological record as well as current practice.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Society for American Archaeology 88th Annual Meeting, Portland, OR (2023)   •
• Archaeology and Landscape Learning for a Climate-Changing World

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Abstract Id(s): 37503.0