Blog 2 Columns With Frame – Page 2 – Welcome to the Society for Historical Archaeology

January 28, 2025ByNicole GrinnanClimate Heritage Initiative, Heritage at Risk0

Look for the Helpers

By Marcy Rockman, Lifting Rocks Climate and Heritage Consulting, for the SHA Climate Heritage Initiative To start- if you’ve lost your home in a wildfire and it held cremains that you weren’t able to take with you- contact the Alta Heritage Foundation (Alta). They’re archaeologists who have developed methods of recovering cremains from the ashes...

December 12, 2024ByNicole GrinnanClimate Heritage Initiative, Heritage at Risk0

A Global Community for Landscapes in Transition

By Marcy Rockman, Lifting Rocks Climate and Heritage Consulting, for the SHA Climate Heritage Initiative A recent global-scale survey by the UN Development Program (UNDP) found that far more people around the world want action on climate change than those that don’t. Eighty-six (86) percent want their governments to work together on climate despite differences...

December 10, 2024ByNicole GrinnanClimate Heritage Initiative, Heritage at Risk0

Saving Seeds But Not Yet Sites

By Marcy Rockman, Lifting Rocks Climate and Heritage Consulting, for the SHA Climate Heritage Initiative In late October of this year, the Svalbard Seed Vault in northern Norway received its largest deposit to date, approximately 30,000 new samples. The Seed Vault is a gene bank, holding seeds from around the world against a range of...

December 5, 2024ByNicole GrinnanClimate Heritage Initiative, Heritage at Risk0

Signing Climate Change and Heritage

By Marcy Rockman, Lifting Rocks Climate and Heritage Consulting, for the SHA Climate Heritage Initiative An array of new signs has been added to British Sign Language (BSL) to convey climate change and associated issues such as greenhouse gasses, tipping points, and sustainability. Each is a creation that is more than finger spelling or compilations...

December 3, 2024ByNicole GrinnanClimate Heritage Initiative, Heritage at Risk0

Rewilding and Relearning in Ireland and Elsewhere

By Marcy Rockman, Lifting Rocks Climate and Heritage Consulting, for the SHA Climate Heritage Initiative Efforts are underway to rewild Ireland. While Ireland is known for the abundant and green vegetation its rainfall supports, recent assessments are showing this lushness is not equivalent to biodiversity and ecosystem health. Some rewilding work is now underway to try...

November 26, 2024ByNicole GrinnanClimate Heritage Initiative, Heritage at Risk0

Thanks and the Dogs of Tsenocomoco

By Marcy Rockman, Lifting Rocks Climate and Heritage Consulting, for the SHA Climate Heritage Initiative One of the superpowers of historical archaeology is its capacity to take stories we think we know well and give us new perspectives on them. One of the dangers of climate change is that it is removing this capacity out...

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