North Carolina Archaeological Sites – Approaches to Handling Climate Threats
Allyson Ropp, Historic Preservation Archaeological Specialist, NC Office of State Archaeology; Ph.D. Student, Integrated Coastal Studies, East Carolina University As I wrote about this time last year,...
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Nicole Grinnan, Research Associate, Florida Public Archaeology Network; PhD Candidate, University of St Andrews; with contributions from Jeffery Robinson, Master’s Student, University of West Florida...
View ArticleHistorical Archaeology and the New Political Landscape in 2023
By Terry Klein, Executive Director, SRI Foundation The new year brings a news political reality to Washington, D.C. The most significant political change from last year is the Republican takeover of...
View ArticleDrowning in the Drink: Climate Change and the Threat to Coastal Moonshine...
By Katherine G. Parker, Doctoral candidate, Department of Anthropology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville When first I met with Bob Morgan, then the Heritage Program Manager for Francis Marion...
View ArticleUsing Machine Learning and Spatial Statistics to Measure the Geometric...
By Lindsey Cochran, Assistant Professor, East Tennessee State University; Grant Snitker, Director of the Cultural Resource Sciences and Fire Lab, New Mexico Consortium An urgent question for...
View ArticleShipworms and Gribbles and Pill Bugs, Oh My!
By Susan B.M. Langley, Maryland State Underwater Archaeologist 2023 celebrates the 35th anniversary of the Maryland Maritime Archaeology Program In Maryland, April is Archaeology Month and May is...
View ArticleClimate Stories!! How HARC has adapted Storytelling Methods to Share...
By Allyson Ropp, Ph.D. Candidate, East Carolina University Think back to your favorite story. What made it so exciting? Was it the characters? Was it the conflict or problem that the main characters...
View ArticleHistoric Shipwrecks of The Red Sea
By Alicia Johnson, Graduate Researcher, Alexandria Centre For Maritime Archaeology & Underwater Cultural Heritage While scouring the depths of the Red Sea in 1955, Jacques Cousteau, a famed...
View ArticleThreats to Our Underwater Cultural Heritage
By Charlotte Jarvis and Ole Varmer Bottom Trawling Ecologists and fishery scientists have been concerned about bottom trawling for centuries. The first known reference to the activity is in a 1375...
View ArticleChanging Courses for Archaeology in Louisiana’s Bayous
By Steven J. Filoromo, RPA, TerraXplorations, Inc., Baton Rouge, Louisiana Bayous are subject to constant change over the long course of history. The rate of change today is unprecedented. As a result,...
View ArticleThe Case of the Disappearing Island: Fort Pulaski National Monument
By Laura Seifert, Fort Pulaski National Monument, Savannah, Georgia Work began on Fort Pulaski in 1829, but before one brick could be laid, a complex ditch and dike system was dug to engineer Cockspur...
View ArticleThe Case of the Disappearing Island: Fort Pulaski National Monument
By Laura Seifert, Fort Pulaski National Monument, Savannah, Georgia Work began on Fort Pulaski in 1829, but before one brick could be laid, a complex ditch and dike system was dug to engineer Cockspur...
View ArticleMicro-Climate Blog: The Ongoing Necessity and Invisibility of Human Behavior...
By Marcy Rockman, Lifting Rocks Climate and Heritage Consulting, for the SHA Climate Heritage Initiative A compare and contrast today. Carbon Brief has summarized and assessed recent research about...
View ArticleMicro-Climate Blog: Heritage in the New U.S. National Nature Assessment –...
By Marcy Rockman, Lifting Rocks Climate and Heritage Consulting, for the SHA Climate Heritage Initiative A new U.S. environmental assessment is underway – the National Nature Assessment (NNA). To...
View ArticleMicro-Climate Blog: Ongoing Challenges of Relevance in Climate Education
By Marcy Rockman, Lifting Rocks Climate and Heritage Consulting, for the SHA Climate Heritage Initiative At the university level, attention to climate change as a field of study is increasing. As...
View ArticleMicro-Climate Blog: Climate, Heritage, and Human Rights
By Marcy Rockman, Lifting Rocks Climate and Heritage Consulting, for the SHA Climate Heritage Initiative Is protection from climate change a human right? The International Court of Justice taking up...
View ArticleMicro-Climate Blog: Because Heritage Isn’t Remotely Plain Vanilla
By Marcy Rockman, Lifting Rocks Climate and Heritage Consulting, for the SHA Climate Heritage Initiative Flavor, memory, and words are all connected here. The tropics where vanilla beans are warming...
View ArticleMicro-Climate Blog: Hurricanes and History
By Marcy Rockman, Lifting Rocks Climate and Heritage Consulting, for the SHA Climate Heritage Initiative The 2024 hurricane has been an unusual one. Predicted in the spring to be highly active with...
View ArticleMicro-Climate Blog: New Help for Heritage under Conflict in Ukraine
By Marcy Rockman, Lifting Rocks Climate and Heritage Consulting, for the SHA Climate Heritage Initiative Sharing news in support of heritage in Ukraine. The International Centre for the Study of the...
View ArticleMicro-Climate Blog: Digging into Emissions from Artificial Intelligence
By Marcy Rockman, Lifting Rocks Climate and Heritage Consulting, for the SHA Climate Heritage Initiative One of the many unique capabilities of archaeology is its capacity to make visible things and...
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