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This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. As archaeologists, our ethical obligations include responsibly training future generations of practitioners. Oftentimes, we understand this responsibility as taking the form of training proper field methods, timely and complete reporting of data, and other aspects that deal specifically with the physical aspects of archaeology – artifacts, records, and...
"Aquilombamento" as a Potentializing Praxis for Black Existences in Archaeology (2021)
This is an abstract from the session entitled "Black Studies and Archaeology" , at the 2021 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. To date, the archaeology program at the Federal University of Sergipe, in northeastern Brazil, doesn’t offer an African Diaspora course at undergraduate level. Such an absence points to the epistemic violence pervasive in the teaching of archaeology, particularly blatant in a region with a predominantly Black population. In this work, I intend...
Archaeological Ceramics for Beginners: A Hands-On Activity for Introductory Classes
This activity is designed for students who have little or no experience with archaeology and, in many ways, is a classic; archaeological ceramics activities or labs are offered at many institutions. So, why offer it up? For two reasons: first, as a well-proven option that new instructors can use in their classrooms that is explicitly connected to the Principles for Curricular Reform and, second, as a starter for conversations with experienced instructors. The activity engages students with a...
Archaeological Ceramics for Beginners: A Hands-On Activity for Introductory Classes (2015)
This activity is designed for students who have little or no experience with archaeology and, in many ways, is a classic; archaeological ceramics activities or labs are offered at many institutions. So, why offer it up? For two reasons: first, as a well-proven option that new instructors can use in their classrooms that is explicitly connected to the Principles for Curricular Reform and, second, as a starter for conversations with experienced instructors. The activity engages students with a...
Archaeological Pedagogy, Gentrification and the City: Community-Engaged Scholarship in San Francisco (2017)
The Bay Area, and San Francisco in particular, is experiencing rapid gentrification due to the influx of highly-paid workers employed by the tech economy centered in Silicon Valley. As the cost of living increases, long-time residents are being actively pushed out, and various community organizations have sprung up in response to highlight and address these issues of gentrification, displacement, and homelessness. In this paper, I explore the process and results of partnering with community...
Archaeologists and the Pedagogy of Heritage: Preparing Scholar-Practitioners for Complex and Changing Heritage Work (2016)
Heritage studies and public history are the publicly engaged and community-accountable practices of historical scholarship, whether it is based in archival research, archaeology, architecture and preservation, landscape studies, or other related areas. Archaeologists share a commitment to public interpretation, education, and preservation with these other disciplines, and graduate education must reflect this reality. Today’s scholar-practitioners need to understand the connections and common...
Archaeology, Education, and Gentrification: The View From San Francisco (2017)
San Francisco, and the Bay Area more broadly, is currently an epicenter of gentrification due largely to the tech economy. Higher education is implicated in these processes too, though, as universities expand due to increased enrollment pressures. This paper explores how these intersecting issues have played out during the first semester of teaching "Introduction to Archaeology" for the UC Berkeley/UC Extension San Francisco Fall Program for Freshmen as part of the American Cultures Engaged...
Biographies and the Beaudry Legacy (2022)
This is an abstract from the session entitled "“Historical Archaeology with Canon on the Side, Please”: In Honor of Mary C. Beaudry (1950-2020)" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Co-presenter Carolyn’s White’s 2009 edited volume The Materiality of Individuality is a capsule of Mary’s influence, in which we and several others of her circle appear. That volume and this session inspire us to reflect on how Mary entangled object and individual biography with...
Building Scholars and Communities of Practice in Digital Heritage and Archaeology (2017)
As digital methods have become more ubiquitous in archaeology, the challenge of teaching those methods has become important. Beyond the question of how and what we teach, however, there is an equally important challenge - how do we build communities of practice populated by scholars who are connected through a shared perspective on both the methods and the thoughtful application of those methods. In is within this context that this paper will explore an approach developed at Michigan State...
Community-based Research in the Archaeological Classroom (2016)
This poster focuses on the pedagogical challenges and educational outcomes of including excavations at a 19th century cemetery in an Introduction to Archaeology class. The research project was initiated by a local family when their cemetery was destroyed for farmland. Community-based research is archaeology for, by, and of local communities, a collaboration between community members and researchers. The Anthropology program at the University of Minnesota Morris (UMM) -- a small, public liberal...
A Course on "Digital Heritage Tools": A Reflexive, Engaging, and Ever-Changing Pedagogical Experience (2017)
Digital Heritage…? A definition could be "the valuing, protection, documentation, and understanding of humanity’s shared heritage through the application of digital tools, media, and digitally-enabled spaces." The take-away—Digital Heritage is a big concept. As scholars and educators making use of digital tools and methods, we face challenges of big data, rapidly changing technology, proprietary vs. open source, and the list goes on. Yet, increasing use of technology necessitates that we teach...
The Current State of Egyptology: An International Survey and Discussion (2018)
This paper suggests that Egyptology has reached a critical juncture in which the opening of the field to other areas, such as anthropology and sociology, is critical in revitalising and safeguarding the future of the discipline. Discourse beyond disciplinary boundaries is becoming increasingly important in academia, due to wider changes in university structures, employment, and funding opportunities. Given the current importance of these issues, the authors wanted to determine how these aspects...
Digital Archaeological Data in All the Classrooms: Case studies using the Digital Index of North American Archaeology (DINAA) for Teaching Digital Methods in Graduate and Undergraduate Curricula (2017)
This paper presents case studies in developing information literacy about archaeological methods and heritage resources, involving use of the Digital Index of North American Archaeology (DINAA) in graduate and undergraduate programs at Adams State University and Indiana University. DINAA is a linked open data hub which uses archaeological site definitions as a core from which to explore further information, including excavation and collections data, scholarly publications, and related...
Digital Communities of Learning: Bridging Technology, Pedagogy, and Community-Engaged Practice (2019)
This is an abstract from the "Capacity Building or Community Making? Training and Transitions in Digital Archaeology" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. At the junction of contemporary approaches to digital and community-engaged scholarship, there is an augmented spirit of openness and collaboration that has the potential to reconfigure authority, ownership and power in connecting with the past by transforming digital training and capacity building....
Disrupting Pedagogies: Queer Theory in the Classroom, Field School, and Mentoring (2020)
This is an abstract from the session entitled "Gender Revolutions: Disrupting Heteronormative Practices and Epistemologies" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In this paper we discuss queer pedagogical methods. Through a review of our own experimental teaching practices, we aim to disrupt traditional pedagogical models. Over the course of our combined 16 years of teaching, we have implemented and tested a variety of exploratory techniques that embody the...
Embedding Librarians in Archaeological Field Schools (2024)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. For the past two summers, the Anthropology Librarian and the Digital Imaging Coordinator from the University of New Brunswick Libraries have embedded as experts and co-researchers in field schools led by archaeologists in the Department of Anthropology at UNB. The goals of this project are for those library specialists: (1) to gain deeper understanding of...
Engaging the "First Person" in the Past – BACAB CAAS Revisited (2016)
Descendant, often indigenous, communities, have felt varying degrees of tension between themselves and archaeologists. Historically this results from an archaeology that often treated ancient cultural materials as specimens to be scientifically analyzed. While seen as contributing to the greater knowledge, the sense of the ancient individual, of the person – those often perceived as direct ancestral kin of descendant communities – is lost. In many cases this has led toward feelings of distrust...
Forensic Archaeological Field Training: Pedagogy and Practice (2016)
In the discipline of archaeology the field school experience is considered the fundamental training that all archaeologists will experience along their educational pathway. These trainings are designed to teach the basic methods and critical thinking skills that are needed to conduct archaeological investigations. Within the realm of forensic anthropology and forensic archaeology an additional set of field school experiences have been developed to address the recovery of human remains and...
Forensic Archaeology and Today’s Student: Managing Expectations and Providing Rigor While Maintaining Best Practices (2015)
Fueled by the media and uniformed academic advisors, students are flooding into the field of forensics, often with unrealistic expectations of success and future employment. Although careers in forensic anthropology and archaeology are difficult to attain, today’s practitioners have the responsibility to prepare and train the field’s future members. This paper discusses the 2014 field season of the Unidentified Persons Project, a twenty-three student forensic archaeology field school that took...
Games and Gamification as Transformative Pedagogy in the Archaeology and Art History Classroom (2021)
This is an abstract from the session entitled "Outreach and Education: Bringing it Home to the Public (General Sessions)" , at the 2021 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Gamification, a “complex and controversial concept” (Tulloch 2014: 317), is commonly considered an effective tool for student engagement in the archaeology classroom, by providing elements of gameplay: rules, rewards, punishments, competition, and narrative. However, games and gamification have a role...
Gelebte Geschichte 1804: Ein Türöffner in die Vergangenheit (2008)
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A Hands-on Past: 3D Replication as a Form of Archaeological Engagement (2018)
Let’s face it: 3D printing is cool. It is also, thanks to a push from many different sectors, much more affordable, flexible, and accessible through college campuses and even city libraries. This presentation will focus on a recent project at the University of Denver where anthropologists teamed with the engineering and computer science school to take advantage of our different suites of knowledge. Together we crafted curriculum for students from many different academic backgrounds to employ...
Improving Public Archaeology Through Educational Psychology and Pedagogy (2016)
Public archaeology is the means by which we as archaeologists demonstrate the value of our findings and research to our primary benefactors and supporters, the public. Public archaeology has been an increasingly important field within the realm of archaeology in recent decades with a constant desire and need for establishing new and effective ways of engaging the public and sharing with them the benefits of archaeological work. Recent efforts to improve the outreach programs at the University...
The Institution of Archaeology (2015)
Archaeology is perhaps now, more than ever before, a viable career choice for university students. Although academic positions seem to be dwindling, opportunities in contract, commercial, or compliance archaeology are skyrocketing as the development ethic of North American capitalism continues to expand. Armed with a field school and a handful of undergraduate courses, these new graduates represent the dominant practice of archaeology today. The question is, what are they practising? Who has...
Into the West(ern Plains): Results of the 2017 Bighorn Archaeology Field School, Park and Fremont Counties, Wyoming (2018)
This presentation highlights several aspects of archaeological research and training undertaken by the Indiana University Bighorn Archaeology field school in its thirteenth year. Areas of study include documentation of Native residential campsites (stone circles) at the Heart Mountain Nature Conservancy; research at the Heart Mountain WWII Japanese American Confinement Site; photogrammetry of stone architecture (stone circles and cairns) and rock art around the Bighorn Basin; comparative rock...