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…
Heritage at Risk
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…
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…
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…
Climate History of Carl Sagan
By Marcy Rockman, Lifting Rocks Climate and Heritage Consulting, for the SHA Climate Heritage Initiative I’m firmly of the opinion that if it is possible to reference or highlight the…
End of an Era, Power of an Arc
By Marcy Rockman, Lifting Rocks Climate and Heritage Consulting, for the SHA Climate Heritage Initiative At the end of September this year, an historic point was reached: England turned off…
Change for Culture and History, Small and Large
By Marcy Rockman, Lifting Rocks Climate and Heritage Consulting, for the SHA Climate Heritage Initiative There’s been a change at Lake Park in Milwaukee, Wisconsin: a 114-year old historical marker set…
COP29 and Building a Vision from Below “Z”
By Marcy Rockman, Lifting Rocks Climate and Heritage Consulting, for the SHA Climate Heritage Initiative This week the 29th Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate…
Hurricane Impacts on North Carolina’s Coastal Plain Archaeological Sites
By Allyson Ropp, Historic Preservation Archaeological Specialist As I write this, North Carolina faces a long road of recovery in its western reaches. Hurricane Helene sped through the west, dumping…
Micro-Climate Blog: Building Care and Knowledge of Place through Community Archaeology
By Marcy Rockman, Lifting Rocks Climate and Heritage Consulting, for the SHA Climate Heritage Initiative On the coast of British Columbia north of Vancouver, a community archaeology project is bringing…