public archaeology, communities, crowd-sourcing, crowd-funding, public engagement, archaeology (Other Keyword)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Chiara Bonacchi. Andrew Bevan. Daniel Pett. Adi Keinan-Schoonbaert.

A core aim of public archeology is to study and strengthen the public value of archaeological research. In pursuing this goal, the MicroPasts project sees archaeological research, public engagement with archaeology and the study of the cultural, social and economic implications of citizen participation as overlapping and mutually reinforcing areas, that can generate high quality new resources (data, enhanced interpretations, skills, funding, etc.) and processes (e.g. methodological innovations,...