Coastal And Underwater Cultural Heritage Threatened By Climate Change: Where Are We And What Is Next?

Summary

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology.

Since the earliest times in human history, people have lived along coasts and relied on marine resources for subsistence, raw materials, maintaining social links, and for transportation. The identity of many communities globally is directly linked to their relation to the sea and the oceans. The tangible components of their heritage are accumulated along the coasts and underwater. Today, the effects of climate change, and the projects to mitigate it, pose heavy risks for tangible cultural heritage, threatening its preservation as we know it. In this presentation, I review the approaches taken for documenting and protecting cultural heritage underwater and along coastal zones, identify main gaps in knowledge, and propose next steps in research, citizen science, and policy.

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• Society for Historical Archaeology 2024   •
• Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)

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Contact(s): Nicole Haddow