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

ABSTRACT: 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 com

SUBMITTER: Dawson T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7165427 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature