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The impact of climate change on archaeological and heritage sites in the Arctic region is devastating. New techniques of research and analysis are providing increasingly rich data about the long history of humans in the environment. Just as the value of these sites is being recognized more fully, th...

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Published in:Open Rivers Rethinking Water Place & Community
Main Author: Phyllis Mauch Messenger
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: University of Minnesota Libraries Publishing 2019
Subjects:
anthropology
international
research
archeo
geo
Arctic
Climate change
permafrost
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.24926/2471190X.6007
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Summary:The impact of climate change on archaeological and heritage sites in the Arctic region is devastating. New techniques of research and analysis are providing increasingly rich data about the long history of humans in the environment. Just as the value of these sites is being recognized more fully, the sites themselves are being destroyed by thawing permafrost, rising sea levels, and increasingly violent storms. Nowhere is this being felt more intensely than in the Arctic, which is warming two to three times as fast as the rest of the planet (Hoag 2019).

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