Archaeologies of Climate Change
Perceptions and Prospects
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3800901 |
|---|---|
| Authors | K Britton (0000-0002-9478-5966, Department of Archaeology, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, Scotland, United Kingdom; and Department of Human Evolution, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany), Charlotta Hillerdal (0000-0001-5778-6153, Department of Archaeology, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, Scotland, United Kingdom) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 43 |
| Issue | 1-2 |
| Pages | 265-287 |
| Publication date | 2020-10-08 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Études/Inuit/Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0701-1008 • E-ISSN: 1708-5268 |
| Publisher | Consortium Erudit (PUBLISHER • CA) |
| DOI | 10.7202/1071948ar |
| OpenAlex | W3043511243 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 8 |
| References cited | 100 |
Climate change is the biggest challenge facing humanity today, and discussions of its effects-from habitat loss to psychological impacts-can be found in most academic disciplines. Among the many casualties of contemporary climatic change is the archaeological heritage of Arctic and subarctic regions, as warming, erratic weather patterns, coastal erosion, and melting permafrost threaten the anthropogenic and ecological records found in northern environments. Archaeology is uniquely positioned to provide long-term perspectives on human responses to climatic shifts, and to inform on the current debate. In addition, the practice of archaeological research and assimilation of archaeological heritage into contemporary society can also address or even mitigate some of the sociocultural impacts of climate change. Focusing on the Yup'ik communities and critically endangered archaeology of the Yukon-Kuskokwim (Y-K) Delta, Alaska, here we argue community archaeology can provide new contexts for encountering and documenting the past, and through this, reinforce cultural engagement and shared cultural resilience. We emphasize the benefits of archaeological heritage and the practice of archaeology in mitigating some of the social and psychological impacts of global climate change for communities as well as individuals. We also propose that archaeology can have a role in reducing psychological distance of climate change, an acknowledged barrier that limits climate change action, mitigation, and adaptation, particularly in regions where the impacts of contemporary climate change have not yet been immediately felt
Anthropocene · Archaeology · Climate change · Cultural heritage · Environmental ethics · Environmental resource management · Geography · Permafrost · Psychological resilience · Sociocultural evolution · Sociology · Anthropology · Climate change and permafrost · Conservation Techniques and Studies · Environmental Science · Indigenous Studies and Ecology · Ecology
Losing glaciers
Yuuyaraq today, Yuuyaraq tomorrow
Climate change impacts on immovable cultural heritage in polar regions
Disaster, Risk, and Resilience
State of the Field
A systematic overview of the barriers to building climate adaptation of cultural and natural heritage sites in polar regions
Nuna Nalluyuituq (The Land Remembers)
Honouring ancestry, celebrating presence – the grand opening of the Nunalleq Culture and Archaeology Center
Applied Archaeology in the Americas
Explorations in Turkestan, expedition of 1904
The Anthropogenic Greenhouse Era Began Thousands of Years Ago
Evidence and Implications of Recent Climate Change in Northern Alaska and Other Arctic Regions
The impact of climate change on tribal communities in the US
Earth system impacts of the European arrival and Great Dying in the Americas after 1492
Cooling and societal change during the Late Antique Little Ice Age from 536 to around 660 AD
Domestication as a model system for niche construction theory
How Long Have We Been in the Anthropocene Era?
How culture shaped the human genome
Diet and the evolution of human amylase gene copy number variation
Processes and impacts of Arctic amplification
Including indigenous peoples in climate change mitigation
Preparing for Resettlement Associated with Climate Change
Are there social limits to adaptation to climate change?
Collaborative Indigenous Archaeology
The Psychological Distance of Climate Change
Including indigenous knowledge and experience in IPCC assessment reports
Personal experience and the ‘psychological distance’ of climate change
Cultural dimensions of climate change impacts and adaptation
The Arctic CHAR Project
Migration or Forced Displacement
‘Arctic Crashes
Culture and change
Archaeological sites as Distributed Long-term Observing Networks of the Past (Donop)
Increases of population and expansion of rice agriculture in Asia, and anthropogenic methane emissions since 5000BP
Pre-contact adaptations to the Little Ice Age in Southwest Alaska
Multi-scale, integrated approaches to understanding the nature and impact of past environmental and climatic change in the archaeological record, and the role of isotope zooarchaeology
Bridging the Gap
But Isn't All Archaeology ‘Public’ Archaeology
Applied archaeology
Niche Construction Theory and Archaeology
Varve microfacies and varve preservation record of climate change and human impact for the last 6000 years at Lake Tiefer See (NE Germany)
Climate change policy responses for Canada's Inuit population
It's so different today”
Pollen analysis of core DS7-1SC (Dead Sea) showing intertwined effects of climatic change and human activities in the Late Holocene
Evolution of an interdisciplinary enterprise
An Iron Age Shock Doctrine
Climigration? Population and climate change in Arctic Alaska
Yup'ik Culture and Context in Southwest Alaska
Climate and causation in the Swedish Iron Age
Applied archaeology
The dragons of inaction
The Impact of Climate Change on an Archaeological Site in the Arctic
The Pioneer Condition on the Scandinavian Peninsula
Transdisciplinary Archaeology and the Future of Archaeological Practice
Prospects and challenges for an archaeology of global climate change
Historical Trauma Among Indigenous Peoples of the Americas
The long history of environmental migration
The Perception of the Environment
The onset of the Anthropocene
Total Environment of Change
Measuring perceptions of climate change in northern Alaska
Indigenous Archaeology as Decolonizing Practice
Epilogue
Civilization and Climate
Changing times, changing stories
Embracing change
Yup'ik perspectives on climate change
Archaeology and the Sugpiaq renaissance on Kodiak Island
Conceptualising climate change archaeology
Twilight of the gods? The 'dust veil event' of AD 536 in critical perspective
Climate change and the deteriorating archaeological and environmental archives of the Arctic
Practising archaeology at a time of climatic catastrophe
Knowledge construction among the Cree hunters
Nunalleq
Collapsing the Distance
Archaeology and Animal Persons
The Nonempirical Past
The cadence of climate
Where I have to learn the ways how to live
Archaeological Contributions to Climate Change Research
The Future is Long-term
A Changing Climate for Anthropological and Archaeological Research? Improving the Climate-Change Models
| Unique citing works | 8 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,6 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2025 (5) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 7 |