Coastal Heritage At Risk Task Force-Raising Awareness of Climate Change through Collaboration

Summary

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Methods for Monitoring Heritage at Risk Sites in a Rapidly Changing Environment", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology.

The state of Florida serves as a canary-in-the-coalmine of the impacts of climate change to the continental US. Untold stories of Florida history missing from the public record will also dissapear as sea-levels rise. Many of these stories are of marginalized groups who encountered violence from the start of Florida history. These sites include the Underground “Saltwater” Railroad, and the removal of Indigenous people to internment camps. This paper discusses the The Coastal Heritage at Risk Task Force (CHART), a collaboration between the Florida Division of Historical Resources, Seminole and Miccosukee Tribes, Ah-Tah-Thi-Ki, History Miami Museums, and the Florida Museum of Natural History, Florida Public Archaeology Network, Miami-Dade County Planning Division, Miami-County Office of Resilience, and Bill Baggs/ Egmont Key State Park. CHART’s aim is to create visibility for these at-risk coastal sites and their stories for classrooms and the public, while also assessing site risk for future adaptation strategies.

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• Methods for Monitoring Heritage at Risk Sites in a Rapidly Changing Environment   •
• Society for Historical Archaeology 2023

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