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

• Published in: Les Nouvelles de l'archéologie
• Main Author: Friesen, T. Max
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: French
• Published: Editions de la maison des sciences de l'homme 2015
• Subjects: archéologie; changement climatique; Inuvialuit; delta du Mackenzie; archaeology; climate change; Arctic; Mackenzie delta; archeo; Canada; Mackenzie Delta; Arctique*; Climate change; permafrost; pergélisol
• Online Access: http://journals.openedition.org/nda/3098

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...