Melting Away: Arctic Cultural Heritage at Risk

Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum & Arctic Studies Center Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum & Arctic Studies Center

Exhibition: Melting Away: Arctic Cultural Heritage at Risk

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Virtual Exhibition
Archaeologists working across the north are scrambling to document, salvage, and if possible, protect important historic and prehistoric sites threatened by retreating permafrost and increasing coastal erosion due to rising temperatures. Photographs contributed by researchers working in Alaska, Canada, and Greenland document the extent and urgency of this critical issue.