Cultural Heritage at Risk in the Twenty-First Century: A Vulnerability Assessment of Coastal Archaeological Sites in the United States

Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 436-445

  Reeder Myers, Leslie A ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF PALEOBIOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

climate change; coastal vulnerability analysis; erosion; sea level rise

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEOLOGY; COASTAL MORPHOLOGY; COASTAL ZONE; CULTURAL HERITAGE; GLOBAL WARMING; HUMAN ACTIVITY; INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT; PREHISTORIC; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; SHORELINE; TWENTY FIRST CENTURY; VULNERABILITY;

CALIFORNIA; CHESAPEAKE BAY; SANTA BARBARA CHANNEL; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84945479433     PISSN: 15564894     EISSN: 15561828     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15564894.2015.1008074     Document Type: Article

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