Teaching and Learning Climate Change through Global Change Archaeology

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 should be mainstream in education and be incorporated into all subjects because climate change is permeating. Many natural sciences are already centering climate literacy in coursework, but as the effects of climate change have become more visible and clearer, humanities, social sciences, and the arts are increasingly incorporating climate into their curriculums. Climate change education may take the form of both formal and informal learning and teaching and increasingly include immersive field projects and classroom activities using international case studies. Archaeology education already implements these approaches and is rich with insights relevant to environmental problem-solving due to its comparative nature, time depth, multidisciplinary perspectives, and interdisciplinary collaborations. Global-change archaeology centers the archaeological record to the understanding of contemporary environmental problems. Incorporating global-change archaeology into all levels of curriculum can make clear human-environmental interrelationships and emphasize human adaptation and resilience from a long-term perspective. Engaging students with the climate crisis through global change archaeology can reveal the relevance of the archaeological record for addressing contemporary problems, such as the climate crisis. This poster will highlight examples that utilize scientific and cultural elements of the archaeological record as curriculum resources for teaching climate change within the framework of global-change archaeology.

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): 40017.0