ID:
S_178
Questing the Climate Change: Impinged Heritage, Vulnerable Communities, and Indigenous Knowledge in Quaternary Landscapes
Lead Convener
B.R. Mani Department of Archaeology, Indian Institute of Heritage A-19, Institutional Area, Sector 62, Noida - 201 309, Uttar Pradesh, India. hodarchaeology@gmail.com
Co Convener(s)
Tishyarakshita Nagarkar Ethnographic Study of 45 Scheduled Tribes of Maharashtra, Savitribai Phule Pune University bhargav.tishya@gmail.com Rajiv Nigam Former Chief Scientist and Head, Geological Oceanography Division, National Institute of Oceanography, Goa, India. rajivnigam1954@gmail.com Alemseged Beldados Aleho Department of Archaeology and Tourism Studies, Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia. alemseged.beldados@aau.edu.et C.J. Sonowal Centre for Study of Social Exclusion and Inclusive Policies, Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS), Mumbai, India. moina@tiss.ac.in Chiamaka Mangut Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Columbia University, USA. clm2196@columbia.edu Ekta Singh Chitrakoot School of Liberal Arts, Shoolini University, India. singhekta1091@gmail.com
Session Keywords
Submerged heritage, Human-environment resilience, Archaeological landscape and climate justice, Heritage preservation
Commission
HABCOM
Abstract Category
AI-ML
Session Description
The session invites research intersecting climate change and archaeology, utilizing multiproxy data (speleothems, climate archives) within the quaternary landscape. Addressing the critical challenge of heritage preservation amidst climate change through key themes of submerged landscapes, and vulnerable tangible/intangible heritage alongside indigenous epistemologies in a globalized context. We seek studies integrating community-driven restoration, ethnography, oral traditions, and innovative technologies such as LiDAR, digital archaeology, big data, remote sensing, satellite imagery, GIS analysis, spatial modeling, radiometric dating, paleoclimate reconstruction, landscape archaeology, and heritage monitoring through collaborative approaches honoring Indigenous agency to foster stewardship to preserve vulnerable heritage amidst rapid environmental change.
