Presentation: Shaping our Future with Fire: Bridging Archaeology and Fire Science
Presentation: Shaping our Future with Fire: Bridging Archaeology and Fire Science
December 10 @ 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm
Location: The School for Advanced Research (SAR) at 660 Garcia Street, Santa Fe, NM
This talk will be livestreamed on the SAR YouTube channel.
Co-presented by the New Mexico Consortium and the School for Advanced Research
New Mexico Consortium scientist Grant Snitker will be presenting his talk titled Shaping our Future with Fire: Bridging Archaeology and Fire Science, at 4pm on December 10th at the School for Advanced Research in Santa Fe. This talk is both in person and available to watch virtually and has limited seats available. To attend in person please reserve your seat by registering HERE.
Wildfires of uncharacteristic size, severity, and frequency pose a significant risk to cultural resources on public lands. Cultural resources, such as archaeological sites and landscapes, are irreplaceable and non-renewable. They have cultural or religious significance for living peoples and are protected by an extensive body of legislation. Despite the urgency of this situation, significant gaps exist between the fire ecology and archaeological research communities. New scientific approaches are needed to enhance how we contextualize fire’s role in preserving cultural resources for generations to come.
Dr. Grant Snitker is with the Cultural Resource Sciences Program of the New Mexico Consortium and the Department of Anthropology at the University of New Mexico. He explores how new approaches to data collection, synthesis, and modeling can amplify our ability to effectively manage and research cultural resources alongside fire ecologists. He focuses on the intersection between archaeological research and fire management in the context of wildfire across the US and provides a blueprint for cooperative and applied research that has implications for agencies and academics alike.
This talk will be livestreamed on the SAR YouTube channel
Register to attend the event in person HERE.
Learn more at https://sarweb.org/date/fire-archaeology/