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This poster presents a collaborative archaeological project between the Pueblo of Acoma Historic Preservation Office (HPO) and the University of Arizona, School of Anthropology. The project began as an internship that fulfilled a requirement of the Applied Archaeology MA program. The internship was designed to better understand the Tribal Historic Preservation Program in residence at the Pueblo of Acoma, while providing professional archaeological assistance to the HPO by compiling a database of...
Castle House Coop: Unmasking an Artist's Space (2018)
Self-taught artist, James Castle, lived his entire life in Idaho (1899-1977). From a young age, he created his works from everyday materials, such as mail, matchboxes, pages of siblings’ homework, and found objects. Castle moved to Boise with his family in the 1930s and while at this farm, he used a converted chicken coop/shed as a private workspace and abode. In October 2016, archaeologists from the University of Idaho (UI) collaborated with the James Castle House, Boise City Department of Arts...
Community Accountable Archaeology at Old Leupp (2023)
This is an abstract from the session entitled "Boarding And Residential Schools: Healing, Survivance And Indigenous Persistence", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Our team of Navajo and Nikkei scholars is negotiating community-accountable research design, following the interests of descendant communities near the carceral site of Old Leupp on the Navajo reservation. This former United States federal Indian boarding school and war relocation site echoes in...
Connecting Language, Places, Stories, and Archaeology for Landscape-level Heritage Preservation: A Collaborative Archaeology Case Study of Eyak Lake, Alaska (2019)
This is an abstract from the "Collaborative and Community-Based Archaeology" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This paper explores a methodological process for documenting the intricate relationships between language, place names, stories, and cultural places for effective landscape heritage preservation. This multi-disciplinary program, led by the Eyak community, is focused on the analysis of place-based data and cultural knowledge systems, as the...
Designing a Collaborative Website for Inter-Site Research: The Colonial Encounters Project (2016)
The Colonial Encounters project is a multi-institution collaboration intended to provide on-line and downloadable access to some 35 important archaeological assemblages from sites in the Potomac River valley dated between 1500 and 1720. Part of a larger project intended to provoke inter-site studies by standardizing and organizing previous archaeological projects, the website described in this paper was designed to deliver site summary documents, historical data, images, and a database...
Examination of Metal Materials of Port Royal, Jamaica (2023)
This is an abstract from the session entitled "Ongoing Care and Study Through a Digital Catalogue of Port Royal", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Excavations at Port Royal, Jamaica, have allowed for continued research into this 17th-century sunken city. Metal artifacts found throughout the site provide materials for in-depth analysis of the tools used by craftsmen and the general public. This allows for the examination of use, maker identification, and...
Genuinely Collaborative Archaeological Work Is ‘Slow’, Or It Is Nothing: Lessons From The ‘Migrant Materialities’ Project (2020)
This is an abstract from the session entitled "Slow Archaeology + Fast Capitalism: Hard Lessons and Future Strategies from Urban Archaeology" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The challenge? To bring a team of 8-12 adult migrants to undertake participatory archaeological interpretation work on data recently recorded in four European locations. The opportunity? To welcome enthusiastic migrant colleagues from eight former European colonies into the heart of...
Identifying Submerged Paleocultural Landscapes: A Collaborative Archaeological Approach (2015)
Narragansett Indian Tribal oral history relates to us that "More than 15,000 years ago, the ancient villages of the Narragansett were out where the ocean is now. The waters began to rise overnight and the people had to abandon their homes." This Tribal oral history echoes the regional geological record indicating that at the time of the last glacial maximum, ca. 24,000 years ago, what are now the Atlantic waters of Rhode Island and Block Island sounds were part of a subaerially-exposed...
Local Contexts, Global Application - A Comparative Analysis of Collaborative and Community Archaeology Projects in Western Australia, British Columbia and Alaska. (2015)
Collaborative heritage management projects requires adaptation to local customary protocols, local structures, and local community goals, and so necessitates a uniquely, localized focus. At the same time, developing, formalized approaches to collaboration that have universal elements – structures and processes - that are applicable in any context, is a goal in the continual evolution and development of a fully integrated collaborative, community archaeology. This means identifying those...
A Local Government and Tribal Collaborative Approach to Cultural Resources Management (2018)
The Pima County (Arizona) Office of Sustainability and Conservation is applying a proactive approach to cultural resources management on approximately 100,000 acres of Conservation Lands the County has recently acquired for conservation purposes. County stewardship and management of these lands brings with it several responsibilities, among them developing a management plan through collaboration with Tribes that guides 1) the identification of Traditional Cultural Properties, 2) monitoring of...
MAPPING MEMORIES OF FREETOWN: the Meanings of a Native American House in a Black Neighborhood (2018)
The rediscovery of a 20th century Montaukett home in what is remembered as an "historically-black neighborhood" sheds new light on the silenced histories of people of color on Long Island. While efforts are underway to preserve and restore the Fowler house and property, the authors are working with residents, descendants, and community members to understand the relationships that formed around this property, and throughout the Freetown neighborhood. In this paper, landscape and space are...
On the Front Line: Collaborative Archaeology between CRM Archaeologists, Academics and First Nations Communities. (2015)
First Nation’s heritage concerns are at the forefront of many large-scale and controversial development projects across the province of British Columbia. How developers and Cultural Resource Management (CRM) Archaeologists choose to address these concerns can significantly impact working and political relationships. CRM archaeologists are on the front lines balancing and navigating complex, and sensitive socio-political heritage issues. Our small CRM company, Kleanza Consulting Ltd. (Kleanza),...
"There’s nothing of their house but the ruined foundation": History and Archaeology at the Manton Farm and Primus Collins House Sites (2023)
This presentation highlights an ongoing collaborative, community-based archaeological project at two sites in Little Compton, Rhode Island associated with eighteenth and nineteenth century Native/Afro-American families. Primus Collins, a freed black man, purchased his property in 1836 and his daughter Lucy Collins remained in the house until her death in 1893. Henry Manton’s enslaved mother sent him north in the 1860s and he and his Native American wife raised twelve children in the home Henry...