Public Archaeology at Iosepa: Community Collaboration in Artifact Display and Analysis

Summary

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

Public archaeology is being increasingly practiced. Goals of this practice include creating accessibility beyond academia and placing an increased emphasis on archaeology with interpretations and benefits for indigenous, stakeholder, and descendent communities. This paper examines the steps taken to engage in public archaeology through artifact display and analysis as requested by the descendent community of Iosepa, a late 19th to early 20th century Hawaiian and Polynesian settlement site established by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Skull Valley, Utah. The objective of this research is to identify aspects of public archaeology in relation to specific stakeholder wishes, thus characterizing the strategies necessary to deliver satisfactory involvement and analysis opportunities. Through this, increased stakeholder, indigenous, and descendent community understanding of archaeology as a process, as well as connection to and representation of their own past and, thereby, their future, is established.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts   •
• Society for American Archaeology 88th Annual Meeting, Portland, OR (2023)

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Record Identifiers

Abstract Id(s): 36897.0