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Research Article

The Climate Heritage Paradox – how rethinking archaeological heritage can address global challenges of climate change

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Received 31 Jul 2023, Accepted 09 Feb 2024, Published online: 01 Mar 2024

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Figure 1. Projected geographical shift of the human temperature niche. Geographical position of the human temperature niche (ca 11–15°C mean annual temperature) projected on the current situation (top) and the RCP8.5 projected 2070 climate (bottom). The maps represent relative human distributions (summed to unity) for the imaginary situation that humans would be distributed over temperatures following the stylized double Gaussian model fitted to the modern data. The dashed line indicates the 5% percentile of the probability distribution. Source: Xu et al. (Citation2020) www.pnas.org/cgi/doi/10.1073/pnas.1910114117 (figure cropped, omitting a third map illustrating the difference between the two maps; CC BY-NC-ND 4.0).

Figure 1. Projected geographical shift of the human temperature niche. Geographical position of the human temperature niche (ca 11–15°C mean annual temperature) projected on the current situation (top) and the RCP8.5 projected 2070 climate (bottom). The maps represent relative human distributions (summed to unity) for the imaginary situation that humans would be distributed over temperatures following the stylized double Gaussian model fitted to the modern data. The dashed line indicates the 5% percentile of the probability distribution. Source: Xu et al. (Citation2020) www.pnas.org/cgi/doi/10.1073/pnas.1910114117 (figure cropped, omitting a third map illustrating the difference between the two maps; CC BY-NC-ND 4.0).

Figure 2. Panhuman identity? Toys and other plastic artefacts of the 20th century washed ashore on English beaches. Original illustration by Tracey Williams as part of the Lego Lost at Sea project (Williams Citation2022).

Figure 2. Panhuman identity? Toys and other plastic artefacts of the 20th century washed ashore on English beaches. Original illustration by Tracey Williams as part of the Lego Lost at Sea project (Williams Citation2022).