Pandemic Archaeology: A Case Study from Michilimackinac
Author(s): Lynn Evans
Year: 2021
Summary
This is an abstract from the session entitled "Pandemic Fieldwork: Doing Fieldwork During a Pandemic" , at the 2021 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology.
Michilimackinac is the site of one of the longest ongoing archaeological projects in North America. Could it continue in a pandemic? Because most of our funding comes from park admission fees and museum store revenue, our project is dependent on Colonial Michilimackinac State Historic Park being open to the public. Once the park was permitted to open, how could we safely conduct a full-scale excavation in a public setting? This was a multi-part problem, keeping us safe from each other and from visitors, providing visitors a safe and positive experience, and carrying out actual archaeological research. Most of the solutions were surprisingly low-tech. If they were ultimately successful remains to be seen.
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Pandemic Archaeology: A Case Study from Michilimackinac. Lynn Evans. Presented at Society for Historical Archaeology Annual Meeting, virtual. 2021 ( tDAR id: 459307)
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Keywords
Investigation Types
Data Recovery / Excavation
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Methodology, Theory, or Synthesis
General
Michilimackinac
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pandemic
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safety
Geographic Keywords
Great Lakes
Individual & Institutional Roles
Contact(s): Society for Historical Archaeology
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| Evans-Pandemic-Archaeology-Michilimackinac.pdf | 101.16kb | Nov 23, 2020 | May 10, 2021 12:05:06 PM | Public | |
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