North Norwegian Heritage at Risk

Summary

This is an abstract from the "Putting Archaeology to Work: Expanding Climate and Environmental Studies with the Archaeological Record" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

Climate is changing now at an even higher rate than expected in some of the worst-case climate scenarios, with increasing temperatures, changes in precipitation, decreasing permafrost, more frequent and severe storms, sea-level rise, reduction of sea ice, floods, avalanches, and changing vegetation. In the Arctic, the temperature rise is already at 3°C—that is two degrees more than the global average and beyond irreparable changes. These changes increase the risks of geo-hazards, e.g., erosion caused by wind, waves and rivers, landslides, sea-level rise, and permafrost thaw. These changes particularly threaten coastal heritage sites, environments, and landscapes. The Arctic areas are more sensitive because they suffer more from combined threats and have previously been well protected by the aid of permafrost and sea ice. Environmental monitoring equipment installed at sites in the Arctic area through the CULTCOAST research project gives important data on the environmental site conditions and informs about possible threats to continued in situ site preservation. This data bridges archaeology and science and will be presented here.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Society for American Archaeology 89th Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA (2024)   •
• Putting Archaeology to Work: Expanding Climate and Environmental Studies with the Archaeological Record

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Abstract Id(s): 39257.0