Climate Change and Archaeology

Summary

This is an abstract from the "Archaeological Congress: Multivocal Conversations Furthering the World Archaeological Congress Agenda" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

This contribution will discuss the relationship between climate change research in archaeology and its application in the heritage management sector, museums, education, and policies. We will do so within a global framework of past climate change action in intergovernmental panels, agencies, and associations as well as in research funding for current interdisciplinary research projects on impacts of climate change and the responses of societies in the past and present. We will discuss ways to translate fundamental archaeological research into actionable science to inform decision-making as well as monitor climate change as it relates to cultural heritage. We will also argue that archaeology is well placed to enhance the socioecological resilience of societies and their adaptive capacity to climate change through the study of past pathways to adaptation. We will present the “Kiel Statement” (https://www.jma.uni-kiel.de/en/research-projects/sacc/sacc-statement-2021.pdf)—which is endorsed by organizations such as the European Association of Archaeologists (EAA), ICOMOS, the SAA, and the World Archaeological Congress (WAC)—and discuss next steps for developing recommendations for climate change action in archaeology and processes for their implementation for WAC10.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Archaeological Congress: Multivocal Conversations Furthering the World Archaeological Congress Agenda   •
• Society for American Archaeology 88th Annual Meeting, Portland, OR (2023)

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Abstract Id(s): 37525.0