Public Archaeology and Climate Change

Tom Dawson, Courtney Nimura, Elías López-Romero, Marie-Yvane Daire

• Publisher: Oxbow Books
• Year: 2017
• eBook ISBN: 9781785707056
• Topic: Biological Sciences
• Subtopic: Archaeology
• Index: Biological Sciences

Public Archaeology and Climate Change promotes new approaches to studying and managing sites threatened by climate change, specifically actions that engage communities or employ 'citizen science' initiatives. Researchers and heritage managers around the world are witnessing severe challenges and developing innovative mechanisms for dealing with them. Increasingly archaeologists are embracing practices learned from the natural heritage sector, which has long worked with the public in practical recording projects. By involving the public in projects and making data accessible, archaeologists are engaging society in the debate on threatened heritage and in wider discussions on climate change. Community involvement also underpins wider climate change adaptation strategies, and citizen science projects can help to influence and inform policy makers. Developing threats to heritage are being experienced around the world, and as this collection of papers will show, new partnerships and collaborations are crossing national boundaries. With examples from across the globe, this selection of 18 papers detail the scale of the problem through a variety of case studies. Together they demonstrate how heritage professionals, working in diverse environments and with distinctive archaeology, are engaging with the public to raise awareness of this threatened resource. Contributors examine differing responses and proactive methodologies for the protection, preservation and recording of sites at risk from natural forces and demonstrate how new approaches can better engage people with sites that are under increasing threat of destruction, thus contributing to the resilience of our shared heritage.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• List of Contributors
• Chapter 1. Public archaeology and climate change: reflections and considerations: Courtney Nimura, Tom Dawson, Elías López-Romero and Marie-Yvane Daire
• Chapter 2. The growing vulnerability of World Heritage to rapid climate change and the challenge of managing for an uncertain future: Adam Markham
• Chapter 3. A central role for communities: climate change and coastal heritage management in Scotland: Tom Dawson, Joanna Hambly and Ellie Graham
• Chapter 4. Improving management responses to coastal change: utilising sources from archaeology, maps, charts, photographs and art: Garry Momber, Lauren Tidbury, Julie Satchell and Brandon Mason
• Chapter 5. Community recording and monitoring of vulnerable sites in England: Eliott Wragg, Nathalie Cohen, Gustav Milne, Stephanie Ostrich and Courtney Nimura
• Chapter 6. Challenged by an archaeologically educated public in Wales: Claudine Gerrard
• Chapter 7. The MASC Project (Monitoring the Archaeology of Sligo’s Coastline): engaging local stakeholder groups to monitor vulnerable coastal archaeology in Ireland: James Bonsall and Sam Moore
• Chapter 8. Recovering information from eroding and destroyed coastal archaeological sites: a crowdsourcing initiative in Northwest Iberia: Elías López-Romero, Xosé Ignacio Vilaseco Vázquez, Patricia Mañana-Borrazás and Alejandro Güimil-Fariña
• Chapter 9. Coastal erosion and public archaeology in Brittany, France: recent experiences from the ALeRT project: Pau Olmos Benlloch, Elías López-Romero and Marie-Yvane Daire
• Chapter 10. Climate change and the preservation of archaeological sites in Greenland: Jørgen Hollesen, Henning Matthiesen, Christian Koch Madsen, Bo Albrechtsen, Aart Kroon and Bo Elberling
• Chapter 11. Gufuskálar: a medieval commercial fishing station in Western Iceland: Lilja Pálsdóttir and Frank J. Feeley
• Chapter 12. Every place has a climate story: finding and sharing climate change stories with cultural heritage: Marcy Rockman and Jakob Maase
• Chapter 13. Racing against time: preparing for the impacts of climate change on California’s archaeological resources: Michael Newland, Sandra Pentney, Reno Franklin, Nick Tipon, Suntayea Steinruck, Jeannine Pedersen-Guzman and Jere H. Lipps
• Chapter 14. Threatened heritage and community archaeology on Alaska’s North Slope: Anne M. Jensen
• Chapter 15. Cultural heritage under threat: the effects of climate change on the small island of Barbuda, Lesser Antilles: Sophia Perdikaris, Allison Bain, Rebecca Boger, Sandrine Grouard, Anne-Marie Faucher, Vincent Rousseau, Reaksha Persaud, Stéphane Noël, Matthew Brown and July Medina-Triana
• Chapter 16. Archaeological heritage on the Atlantic coast of Uruguay: heritage policies and challenges for its management in coastal protected areas: Camila Gianotti, Andrés Gascue, Laura del Puerto, Hugo Inda and Eugenia Villarmarzo
• Chapter 17. Australian Indigenous rangers managing the impacts of climate change on cultural heritage sites: Bethune Carmichael, Greg Wilson, Ivan Namarnyilk, Sean Nadji, Jacqueline Cahill, Sally Brockwell and Deanne Bird
• Chapter 18. Perception of the relationship between climate change and traditional wooden heritage in Japan: Peter Brimblecombe and Mikiko Hayashi