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DOCUMENT Full-Text Francis McManamon.

Archaeological resources include important places and objects of commemoration and remembrance. Properly investigated, they provide interpretations of pasts that are often inaccessible otherwise. Although there seems ·to be an inherent public curiosity about and interest in archaeology and archaeological resources, the nature of these are not well understood. Also, we know very little about how the public absorbs information about archaeology. Information on both of these topics is...

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This project includes articles and other documents on subjects that are management-related or methodological, technical, or theoretical and not related directly to other archaeological projects.

DOCUMENT Citation Only Mason Miller.

This is an abstract from the ""Is There Gold in that Field?" CRM and Public Outreach on the Front Lines" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This presentation describes the holistic and forward-looking public outreach and engagement effort that was developed to correspond with “the Big Dig,” a Phase III archaeological mitigation excavation at the Headwaters at the Comal Nature Interpretive Center (41CM204) near New Braunfels, Comal County, Texas,...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Francis McManamon.

Throughout the world, public agencies, professional societies, and individual archaeologists have recognized the need for more and better public education about archaeology. We are challenged to act on this recognition by providing opportunities for the public to learn about, and even participate in, archaeological interpretations and investigations. The audiences for these efforts include the general public, students and teachers, legislators, public administrators, and Native Americans....

DOCUMENT Full-Text Francis McManamon.

Recognition of the need for more and better public education about archaeology is a worldwide phenomenon that also has many proponents in the United States, led by national archaeological organizations and public agencies with archaeological programmes. The Society for American Archaeology (SAA), the Society for Historical Archaeology (SHA), and the Archaeological Institute of America (AIA) have active committees on public education. Public education and outreach to the general public were...