Arctic Archaeology and climate change
An enduring debate in the field of Arctic archaeology has been the extent to which climate change impacted cultural developments in the past. Long-term culture change across the circumpolar Arctic was often highly dynamic, with episodes of rapid migration, regional abandonment, and—in some cases—the...
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ftunigroningenpu:oai:pure.rug.nl:publications/c467feb3-3639-4960-b703-3ed7a7dc854a 2024-06-23T07:48:25+00:00 Arctic Archaeology and climate change Desjardins, Sean Jordan, Peter 2019-10 application/pdf https://hdl.handle.net/11370/c467feb3-3639-4960-b703-3ed7a7dc854a https://research.rug.nl/en/publications/c467feb3-3639-4960-b703-3ed7a7dc854a https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-anthro-102317-045901 https://pure.rug.nl/ws/files/103312016/annurev_anthro_102317_045901.pdf eng eng https://research.rug.nl/en/publications/c467feb3-3639-4960-b703-3ed7a7dc854a info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess Desjardins , S & Jordan , P 2019 , ' Arctic Archaeology and climate change ' , Annual Review of Anthropology , vol. 48 , no. 2019 , pp. 279-296 . https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-anthro-102317-045901 ADAPTATION SETTLEMENT MIGRATION AGE PENINSULA TRADE article 2019 ftunigroningenpu https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-anthro-102317-045901 2024-06-10T16:46:54Z An enduring debate in the field of Arctic archaeology has been the extent to which climate change impacted cultural developments in the past. Long-term culture change across the circumpolar Arctic was often highly dynamic, with episodes of rapid migration, regional abandonment, and—in some cases—the disappearance or wholesale replacement of entire cultural traditions. By the 1960s, researchers were exploring the possibility that warming episodes had positive effects on cold-adapted premodern peoples in the Arctic by (a) reducing the extent of sea ice, (b) expanding the size and range of marine mammal populations, and (c) opening new waterways and hunting areas for marine-adapted human groups. Although monocausal climatic arguments for change are now regarded as overly simplistic, the growing threat of contemporary Arctic warming to Indigenous livelihoods has given wider relevance to research into long-term culture–climate interactions. With their capacity to examine deeper cultural responses to climate change, archaeologists are in a unique position to generate human-scale climate adaptation insights that may inform future planning and mitigation efforts. The exceptionally well-preserved cultural and paleo-ecological sequences of the Arctic make it one of the best-suited regions on Earth to address such problems. Ironically, while archaeologists employ an exciting and highly promising new generation of methods and approaches to examine long-term fragility and resilience in Arctic social-ecological systems, many of these frozen paleo-societal archives are fast disappearing due to anthropogenic warming. Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic Arctic Climate change Sea ice University of Groningen research database Arctic Annual Review of Anthropology 48 1 279 296 |
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An enduring debate in the field of Arctic archaeology has been the extent to which climate change impacted cultural developments in the past. Long-term culture change across the circumpolar Arctic was often highly dynamic, with episodes of rapid migration, regional abandonment, and—in some cases—the disappearance or wholesale replacement of entire cultural traditions. By the 1960s, researchers were exploring the possibility that warming episodes had positive effects on cold-adapted premodern peoples in the Arctic by (a) reducing the extent of sea ice, (b) expanding the size and range of marine mammal populations, and (c) opening new waterways and hunting areas for marine-adapted human groups. Although monocausal climatic arguments for change are now regarded as overly simplistic, the growing threat of contemporary Arctic warming to Indigenous livelihoods has given wider relevance to research into long-term culture–climate interactions. With their capacity to examine deeper cultural responses to climate change, archaeologists are in a unique position to generate human-scale climate adaptation insights that may inform future planning and mitigation efforts. The exceptionally well-preserved cultural and paleo-ecological sequences of the Arctic make it one of the best-suited regions on Earth to address such problems. Ironically, while archaeologists employ an exciting and highly promising new generation of methods and approaches to examine long-term fragility and resilience in Arctic social-ecological systems, many of these frozen paleo-societal archives are fast disappearing due to anthropogenic warming. |
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