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Climate change and the loss of archaeological sites and landscapes: a global perspective

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 November 2022

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Jørgen Hollesen*
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Environmental Archaeology and Materials Science, National Museum of Denmark, Copenhagen, Denmark
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Abstract

Climate change is affecting archaeological sites and landscapes around the world. Increased rainfall, more frequent extreme weather events, higher temperatures and rising seas not only create new risks but also exacerbate existing vulnerabilities and threats. Building on an earlier Antiquity article that explored climate change and arctic archaeology (Hollesen et al. 2018), this special section provides a global perspective on the impact of climate change on archaeological sites and landscapes and how archaeologists and cultural heritage managers are responding. This article introduces the following three contributions, outlining their main findings to provide an overview of the various challenges around the world, and highlighting current gaps in knowledge and future research opportunities.

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climate changeheritage managementarchaeological mitigation strategies
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Research Article
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Antiquity , Volume 96 , Issue 390 , December 2022 , pp. 1382 - 1395
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Copyright © The Author(s), 2022. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of Antiquity Publications Ltd.

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