This fortnight we’re joined by Dr. Matt Betts, the Curator of Eastern Archaeology at the Canadian Museum of History and the former head of the Canadian Archaeology Association’s Climate Change Committee to talk about some of the climate threats to the terrestrial and underwater archaeological record. Matt discusses the analytical challenges and inequalities introduced by climate change’s effects on the archaeological record, and calls for a renewed commitment to culture history.

Show Notes

Place-Making in the Pretty Harbour: https://press.uottawa.ca/en/9780776627779/place-making-in-the-pretty-harbour/

HMS Terror: https://www.pen-and-sword.co.uk/HMS-Terror-Hardback/p/18506

https://canadiangeographic.ca/articles/burning-libraries-the-race-to-save-canadas-coastal-archaeological-sites-before-theyre-washed-away/

Hit piece:

“Did Clovis Hunters Kill All the Mammoths?” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hBG6PLQhQ0E

“Butchering a Bison With Clovis Tools and Points” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XmsrkFjPiKM

Credits:

Sponsors: APANB, UNB Grand Lake Meadows Endowment Fund

Producer: Emanuel Akel LinkedIn

Music Credits: Justin Hoenke (Title/Hit Pieces) and Shayne Dahl (Hakuna Errata)

70% of All Archaeology is Done in the Burning Library: Archaeology and Climate Change Part IV