Surveying Coastal Archaeological Sites Damaged by Hurricane Sandy in Rhode Island, USA

Ives, Timothy H.; McBride, Kevin A.; Waller, Joseph N.

doi:10.1080/15564894.2017.1284961

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“…Additionally, they deflect problems to other stretches of coast. In some places, local or national laws hinder coastal protection work-for example, Rhode Island, where permits are rarely granted for hard defenses or soft defenses (such as dune restoration or revegetation) because of cost and effectiveness (11).…”

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“…Although the physical site may erode and eventually be lost, preservation can be achieved in other ways: for example, by creating drawn or photographic records or compiling oral histories. Such work also opens further opportunities for public engagement, and Ives et al (11) reported public desire to be involved in practical work at threatened places "while the sites still exist. "…”

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“…Climatic events can force us to consider how to react in the future: for example, storm surge damage associated with Superstorm Sandy supports calls for preemptive archaeological salvage (10,11). Nonclimatic events also help with planning, such as damage caused by the 2011 tsunami in Hawaii (12) used as a proxy for what may become the norm due to SLR and increasing storm intensity.…”

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“…By 2011, about 30% of the coast had been investigated, recording over 12,500 coastal heritage sites (20). Coastal heritage surveys have also been conducted in the United States (21), and some US Atlantic Seaboard states commissioned specific surveys after Superstorm Sandy (11).…”

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“…Coastal surveys on both sides of the Atlantic have located large numbers of previously unrecorded sites, even in areas previously examined. Before dedicated coastal survey on Block Island (Rhode Island), the few records of heritage sites led to low expectation of new discoveries, but many more sites were located than expected (11); while in some parts of Scotland, the number of coastal sites recorded within an area doubled after a survey. New erosional exposures partly explain this trend, and Milner (22) noted the irony of previously buried sites being discovered due to the process of destruction, with erosion exposing remains that are then vulnerable to rapid damage.…”

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Coastal heritage, global climate change, public engagement, and citizen science

Dawson

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Kelley

et al. 2020

Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.

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Climate change is threatening an uncalculated number of archaeological sites globally, totaling perhaps hundreds of thousands of culturally and paleoenvironmentally significant resources. As with all archaeological sites, they provide evidence of humanity’s past and help us understand our place in the present world. Coastal sites, clustered at the water’s edge, are already experiencing some of the most dramatic damage due to anthropogenic climate change, and the situation is predicted to worsen in the future. In the face of catastrophic loss, organizations around the world are developing new ways of working with this threatened coastal resource. This paper uses three examples from Scotland, Florida, and Maine to highlight how new partnerships and citizen science approaches are building communities of practice to better manage threatened coastal heritage. It compares methods on either side of the Atlantic and highlights challenges and solutions. The approaches are applicable to the increasing number of heritage sites everywhere at risk from climate change; the study of coastal sites thus helps society prepare for climate change impacts to heritage worldwide.

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