The Arctic CHAR Project: Climate Change Impacts on the Inuvialuit Archaeological Record

Around the circumpolar North, archaeologists and heritage managers are growing increasingly concerned about the destruction of archaeological sites due to modern climate change. This paper describes the Arctic CHAR project, designed to address this issue in the Mackenzie Delta region of northwestern...

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Bibliographic Details
Published in:Les Nouvelles de l'archéologie
Main Author: T. Max Friesen
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:French
Published: Editions de la Maison des Sciences de l'Homme 2015
Subjects:
archaeology
climate change
Arctic
Inuvialuit
Mackenzie delta
CC1-960
Canada
Mackenzie Delta
Climate change
permafrost
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.4000/nda.3098
https://doaj.org/article/dc98cbf958644ad0a87d8ca770b168b7
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Summary:Around the circumpolar North, archaeologists and heritage managers are growing increasingly concerned about the destruction of archaeological sites due to modern climate change. This paper describes the Arctic CHAR project, designed to address this issue in the Mackenzie Delta region of northwestern Canada. The Mackenzie Delta is home to the Inuvialuit, whose rich history is recorded in many coastal sites. Due to permafrost melt and increasing relative sea level, these sites are being destroyed at an alarming rate. Arctic CHAR consists of two main components: survey to assess the condition of heritage resources across the region, and excavation of the most important threatened sites.

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