Session: #139

Regular session

Archaeological heritage is currently affected by a large number of natural hazards that are a direct consequence of climate change: frequent extreme weather events, erosion, aridification, flooding, sea level rise, fires, the melting of permafrost, landslides, etc. and by a certain share of damages caused by human aggression or intervention. Climate change and its impacts on human societies has proved to be the cause of increased urbanisation processes and changes in land use and land cover, which will further develop in unprecedented population displacements in the next future. This is inevitably going to damage still uncover and unknown archaeological sites, affect existing exposed ones and generate new difficulties for the sustainable preservation of archaeological heritage at a scale we have not experienced before.
This session would like to gather different approaches to site vulnerability assessment, from remote sensing analysis, to site monitoring, including big-data and modelling practices developed within such a framework. The goal of the session is to discuss methodological challenges, the value of different scales of analyses and the difficulties in obtaining a full view of the multiple scales of hazards that can affect archaeological heritage today and in the future for a better and more strategic protection and research policy. Success stories of sustainable site protection measures after risk assessment are also much encouraged.

Climate Change, Human Impact, Cultural Heritage Risk Assessment, Sustainable Archaeology, Integrated Modelling Techniques

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Maria Elena Castiello (Switzerland) ^1,2

Núria Morera Noguer (Spain) ^3,4
Ferran Antolín (Germany) ^4,5