Reflect on your favourite history. What made it thus interesting? Was it the figures? Was the issue or issue that the principal characters were trying to resolve? Or was that how the personalities ultimately came to solve the issue? Maybe it was all three!
What all fine stories have in common are a beginning, middle, and close, each setting up an important aspect of the narrative that draws you into the action. The end is the installation. It gives us a brief introduction to the principal characters and their world, and gives us more information about the account. The center presents a problem, issue, or scenario the characters had target. Regardless of what it is, this could be a lost send on a journey home or a parent’s passing. However, it still poses a problem for the figures. The figures are given the opportunity to resolve the issue or fix it at the conclusion. The main character was able to notice a passing deliver and make it home in time for her sister’s marriage, despite the possibility that she may have been a victim of a shipwreck on her way home. These three elements reflect the” ABT” model of story.
Find 1. Story Arc ( Ropp, 2023 )
The SHA Heritage at Risk Committee ( HARC ) has used this framework in its work, drawing inspiration from Marcy Rockman and Jakob Maase’s ( 2017 ) article” Everywhere has a climate story: finding and sharing climate change stories with cultural heritage.” This article advocates the use of the ABT Framework to tell tales that incorporate social traditions, including visible historical remains, and climate change.
HARC has used a variety of media to tell the weather reports of its historical history since its founding in 2017. One strategy is the Heritage at Risk – Climate Stories Pop-Up Show. Archaeologists can reveal transformative tales of cultural traditions that are in danger of disappearing as a result of the pop-up exhibit. The show provides a place for historians to learn from one another and discuss it with the people because archaeologists around the world are concerned about the numerous effects that climate change can have on tangible and intangible history. A world series of case studies that highlight the problem and seek out sustainable solutions are featured in this display. The ABT Framework is used in all case studies in the display to describe the disrupted site’s history, its effects, and the strategies employed by skilled and avocational archaeologists to counteract the impacts.
Number 2. Case Studies and a Pop-Up Exhibit Title Panel ( Grinnan 2020 )
In 2022, the actual pop-up show expanded to incorporate a digital part. To achieve a broader market, the pop-up show became an ESRI StoryMap. The breadth of climate change impacts was captured in this StoryMap, which expanded on the actual display’s contents and explored the stories of each site’s spatial resolution, enabling HARC to inform a world story about how climate change affects cultural heritage.
Number 3. HARC Digital StoryMap title card ( Wholey 2019, photo credit South Carolina DNR ).
Event reports from North America and Europe are included in the present displays. These case reports examine websites that date from the Archaic era to the mid-twentieth era, with their sorts varying from barrel middens and shipwrecks to plantations and commercial structures. These case studies provide distinct, context-dependent environment narratives and cross-continental analytical instances of comparable management and impact practices. For example, seaside degradation is a common thread in several recent weather reports. Shell remnants in Maine and Florida, historic sites and modern-day areas in Alaska, fishing and commercial sites in the British Isles, are all affected by this erosion. Although these various locations are in a similar danger, the efforts of the participating partners to this museum offer a range of methods that can be applied to various sites around the world. For instance, companies like the Florida Public Archaeology Network and CHERISH in Ireland and Wales use cutting-edge systems to study locations using unmanned aerial vehicles and drone-based raster. Another activities, like the Maine Midden Minders, SCAPE in Scotland, and the Society of Black Archaeologists at the Estate Little Princess in St. Croix, liquidity community groups to history sites and do assessments before, during, and after large-scale degradation events and hurricanes.
Find 4. Locations for the most recent case studies ( Wholey 2019 ): a map of current case studies
Lastly, HARC has sponsored some 3-Minute Climate Story panel at the annual SHA events. These sections combine climate-related reports from all over the globe. Through a video file, these stories are told using the ABT Framework and Rockman and Maase’s” Everywhere has a culture account.” The video allows scientists and history experts to tell the story of a page and promote the videos across different platforms to help make climate change research and impacts more attainable for archaeologists and the public. The first theme of Rockman and Maase’s 3-minute climate story,” Change in the Material World,” will be the subject of this year’s 3-minute climate story panel. This theme emphasizes how material culture changes and how archaeologists can recognize and document this change ( Rockman and Maase 2017: 110 ). It also emphasizes how this change affects people.
Only a small portion of the sites at risk and the stories that can be told can be compared to the HARC-promoted storytelling efforts. We want to help you tell the story of a heritage site that is in danger of being damaged by climate change because heritage sites are facing these effects all over the world. We would love to share the story of a site in danger of having a climate crisis with you and your efforts to stop it! Please fill out this Google Form so we can share the story of your site with the wider archaeological community. Are you unsure if your site fits into our exhibition? Would like to take part in a subsequent 3-minute climate story session? Email Allyson Ropp at roppal14@students .ecu. edu for more information.
Citations:
Olson, Randy
2018 Do n’t Be Such a Scientist: Talking Substance in an Age of Style, 2nd Edition. Island Press, Washington DC.
The Publication Plan
2020 The ABTs of science communication: expert advice from a scientist-turned-filmmaker. The Publication Plan: News for Medical Publication Professionals. Accessed 7 June 202
Rockman, Marcy and Jakob Maase
2017 Every place has a climate story: finding and sharing climate change stories with cultural heritage. In Public Archaeology and Climate Change, Tom Dawson, Courtney Nimura, Elias Lopez-Romero, and Marie-Yvane Daire, editors, pp. 107-114. Oxbow Books, United Kingdom.
