Arctic archaeological sites threatened by climate change: A regional multi-threat assessment of sites in south-west Greenland
Arctic archaeological sites threatened by climate change: A regional multi-threat assessment of sites in south-west Greenland
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DOI：
10.1111/arcm.12593
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发表时间：
2020-08-07
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1.6
通讯作者：
Hollesen, J.
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作者：
Fenger-Nielsen, R.;Elberling, B.;Hollesen, J.
气候变化威胁着北极许多保存完好的考古遗址。该文件提出了首次针对格陵兰岛努克地区的北极多重威胁评估。结果表明，336 个已知考古遗址中的大多数已经受到微生物退化、永久冻土融化和植被的影响，并且这些影响将在未来 80 年内加剧。由于海岸主要是固结和隆起，因此仅在有限的几个地点注意到海岸侵蚀的额外影响。所应用的方法代表了识别受威胁地点并强调重要数据限制的重要第一步。
Climate change threatens many well-preserved archaeological sites in the Arctic. The paper presents the first Arctic multi-threat assessment focusing on the Nuuk region of Greenland. The results suggest that the majority of the 336 known archaeological sites are already exposed to impacts from microbial degradation, permafrost thaw and vegetation, and that these impacts will increase over the next 80 years. Additional impacts from coastal erosion are only noted at a limited number of sites due to a predominant consolidated and uplifting coast. The applied methods represent an important first step to identify threatened sites and emphasize important data limitations.