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Drowning in the Drink: Climate Change and the Threat to Coastal Moonshine Still Sites

February 27, 2023
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By Katherine G. Parker, Doctoral candidate, Department of Anthropology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville When first I met with Bob Morgan, then the Heritage Program Manager for Francis Marion National Forest…

“Tech Appeal” in Coastal Archaeological Site Monitoring: Experiences with Terrestrial Laser Scanning and Photogrammetry in Northwest Florida

February 1, 2023
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Nicole Grinnan, Research Associate, Florida Public Archaeology Network; PhD Candidate, University of St Andrews; with contributions from Jeffery Robinson, Master's Student, University of West Florida This blog post has been adapted…

North Carolina Archaeological Sites – Approaches to Handling Climate Threats

November 2, 2022
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Allyson Ropp, Historic Preservation Archaeological Specialist, NC Office of State Archaeology; Ph.D. Student, Integrated Coastal Studies, East Carolina University As I wrote about this time last year, North Carolina’s coastal…

Heritage (Professionals) at Risk

July 28, 2022
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by William B Lees, PhD, RPA The University of West Florida’s Florida Public Archaeology Network FPAN.us Kaylen Eileen Gehrke's death in the Kisatchie National Forest is tragic well beyond the…

The Archaeology of Plastic Pollution

July 8, 2022
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Kimberly J. Wooten, Archaeologist, Cultural Studies Office, California Department of Transportation July 1st marks the beginning of Plastic Free July, a month focused on encouraging the public to actively participate…

Virginia’s Inland Waters Heritage Risk Assessment and Survey

February 15, 2022
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by Elizabeth A. Moore (Virginia Department of Historic Resources) Location: Multiple Rivers in Virginia Problem: Virginia has 64 rivers, river branches, major creeks, and runs totaling 2,452 linear miles and…

Heritage in the Eye of the Storm—Hurricanes, Coastal Erosion, Sea Level Rise and the State of Coastal & Maritime Archaeology in the North Carolina Coastal Plain

October 25, 2021
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Allyson Ropp Historic Preservation Archaeological Specialist, NC Office of State Archaeology Take a second to imagine the colony of North Carolina in 1738 and being in a small town on…

Watching California Burn

October 5, 2021
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Kimberly J. Wooten, Archaeologist, Cultural Studies Office, California Department of Transportation There’s enough wind outside that it’s rattling the dried leaves on the century old grapevine that wraps up to…

The South Carolina Archaeological Archive Flood Recovery Project

September 3, 2021
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by Meg Gaillard Archaeologist South Carolina Department of Natural Resources, Heritage Trust Program Nearly six years ago, a catastrophic flood event affected the Carolinas from October 1 – 5, 2015.…

THE FUTURE OF OUR PAST: Marine wind effects on Makli

June 21, 2021
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written by Zahida Quadri Editor Sindh Antiquities, Directorate of Antiquities and Archaeology- Culture, Tourism, Antiquities & Archives Department Government of Sindh, Pakistan For many of you the World heritage site…