Heritage at Risk Archives - Society for Historical Archaeology

Micro-Climate Blog: How to Link Climate and Heritage in Policy (Part 1)

September 26, 2024
Climate Heritage Initiative

By Marcy Rockman, Lifting Rocks Climate and Heritage Consulting, for the SHA Climate Heritage Initiative New legislation! Which at first glance doesn’t look like heritage legislation but has several historic preservation…

Micro-Climate Blog: An Above-Ground View: Climate and Historic Buildings

September 24, 2024
Climate Heritage Initiative

By Marcy Rockman, Lifting Rocks Climate and Heritage Consulting, for the SHA Climate Heritage Initiative Perspective on historic buildings today. This op-Ed from NY state speaks up about adaptive reuse of…

Micro-Climate Blog: Present and Past Experience of Wildfire Management

September 19, 2024
Climate Heritage Initiative

By Marcy Rockman, Lifting Rocks Climate and Heritage Consulting, for the SHA Climate Heritage Initiative Two cultural connections here to the growing risks and impacts of wildfire. First, sharing the announcement…

Micro-Climate Blog: Fighting for Global Equity with the IPCC

September 17, 2024
Climate Heritage Initiative

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…

Micro-Climate Blog: International Connection Announcement and Opportunity!

September 12, 2024
Climate Heritage Initiative

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…

Welcome to Micro-Climate!

September 10, 2024
Climate Heritage Initiative

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…

The Case of the Disappearing Island: Fort Pulaski National Monument

June 25, 2024
Heritage at Risk

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…

Threats to Our Underwater Cultural Heritage

December 3, 2023
Heritage at Risk

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…

Changing Courses for Archaeology in Louisiana’s Bayous

September 27, 2023
Heritage at Risk

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…

Historic Shipwrecks of The Red Sea

July 5, 2023
Heritage at Risk

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 explorer, discovered…