Last chance to see? A plea for a sustainable future for European peatland archaeology

25 Nov by Gaffney, Vince

SAFS' Dr Ben Jennings, and collaborators, have published an urgent call to arms, in Antiquity,for the preservation of peatland archaeological sites. In the article, Ben and fellow authors present four challenges to peatland preservation—physical degradation, mapping and monitoring of sites, communication, and policy frameworks—with climate change ultimately causing further problems. Drawing on positive policy developments in England, they argue that advocacy for peatland archaeology needs to be louder and clearer: archaeology must become an integral consideration in all climate-change mitigation and land-use planning, rather than an afterthought, if the fragile heritage of European peatlands is to be preserved.

Act now - read the article at https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2025.10255

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