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By Marcy Rockman, Lifting Rocks Climate and Heritage Consulting, for the SHA Climate Heritage Initiative More here on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) with attention to equity and potential impacts on representation of cultural heritage in IPCC reports.  The 2015 Paris Agreement calls on its party countries to periodically assess progress they are making toward its goals (reducing greenhouse gas emissions to limit global warming to under 2℃), a...Read More

By Marcy Rockman, Lifting Rocks Climate and Heritage Consulting, for the SHA Climate Heritage Initiative The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is now taking nominations for authors for its upcoming special report on Climate Change and Cities (SR Cities). Nominations are made through national IPCC focal points; in the US, the IPCC focal point is the Dept. of State in collaboration with the US Global Change Research Program. US nominations,...Read More

By Marcy Rockman, Lifting Rocks Climate and Heritage Consulting, for the SHA Climate Heritage Initiative Welcome to Micro-Climate, the new small-size climate blog series from the Society for Historical Archaeology! This blog series is part of the Society for Historical Archaeology’s (SHA) new Climate Heritage Initiative (CHI), which has the twin goals of growing capacity to work on and speak about climate change across the field of historical archaeology and building...Read More

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 Island from a marshy hammock into solid ground that could support the massive brick fort. In fact, it would be several years before the first bricks were laid due to the wide scope of the ditch...Read More

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 English Parliamentary document and that initial mention highlights the destructive nature of the practice (Petition by the Commons to King Edward III, 1376 seen in Bolster 2012, p. 235). Bottom trawling impacts the natural heritage of the ocean in...Read More