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Archaeology In The (Political) Trenches: Lessons From Charm City (2016)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Lauren E Schiszik.

This paper will cover the rise, fall, and current rise of archaeology in Baltimore. "Charm City" serves as a case-study to explore the political, social, and temporal factors that alter the levels of archaeological stewardship at the local goverment level. The establishment of the Baltimore Center for Urban Archaeology in 1983 marked Baltimore as a forerunner in urban public archaeology. This innovative program led excavations that engaged thousands of people until it closed due to city-wide...


Changing tides, rising waters: wetland archaeology on Georgia’s lower coastal plain (2017)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Laura Kate Schnitzer.

The Ogeechee River Valley is an archaeologically under-studied region of southeastern Georgia, but the intensive survey of a state owned wetland mitigation property changes this insufficiency. The recently completed Pierpont Tract survey, commissioned by the Georgia Department of Transportation, identified sites with intact deposits from multiple precontact occupations, spanning from the Late Archaic to the Middle Mississippian periods. Many of these resources lie in seasonally inundated areas...


Collections Management at the National Park Service: The Interior Collections Management System User Satisfaction Survey (2016)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Stephen A Damm.

The Museum Management Program (MMP) provides national guidance and policy to the National Park Service (NPS). It also administers the Interior Collections Management System (ICMS) for the NPS and the Department of the Interior (DOI). In an effort to look towards the future, the MMP and the Interior Museum Program (IMP) administered a user satisfaction survey to federal and non-federal users of ICMS. This poster examines the results of this survey and looks for solutions to common problems, the...


"...Concerning their Common Heritage...": Archaeological Site Stewardship and International Cooperation in the National Park Service (2015)
DOCUMENT Citation Only David Gadsby. Dave Conlin.

In 2011, The National Park Service signed two international Memoranda of Understanding (MOUs) on the management and protection of sites that lie within the park system, but are of interest or importance to foreign governments. The first, signed with the United Kingdom, provides specific protections for a particular resource, the wreck of the 18th-century frigate HMS Fowey. The second, signed with the government of the Kingdom of Spain, expresses the participants' mutual interest in wide variety...


Digital curation, data and replication of results - the foundation for the future of archaeology (2016)
DOCUMENT Full-Text W. Fredrick Limp.

This is a pdf copy of the PPT slides used for this presentation in the SAA symposium. The first principle of the SAA’s Ethics states “The archaeological record …[including]... archaeological collections, records and reports, is irreplaceable. It is the responsibility of all archaeologists to work for the long-term conservation and protection of the archaeological record...” As a profession, we’ve been reasonably responsible as stewards of archaeological sites, but considerably less responsible...


Interpreting a Changing Cultural Landscape – A California Rancho (2017)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Donna L Gillette.

The Dana Adobe, site of an 1837 Mexican Land Grant issued to William Goodwin Dana, provides a model example of a managed landscape with a story to tell. This chronicle, situated on the Central California Coast, includes the prehistoric past, rancho period, emergence of statehood, the American Period, and a look to the future in the stewardship and management of the land and resources.  This unique 130 acre site, which is a California State Historic Landmark and on the National Registry, is owned...


The Kashaya Pomo Cultural Landscape Project: A Community-Based Approach (2015)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Katherine Dowdall. Otis Parrish. Margaret Purser. John Wingard.

In order to more effectively co-steward Kashaya Pomo cultural resources, the California Department of Transportation and the Kashaya Pomo Tribe conducted a multi-year community-based cultural landscape study. This study documents that for some as yet immeasurable time back into antiquity, the lives of Kashaya ancestors were structured by a landscape that included burn-managed ecosystem components, clearings for villages and other Kashaya places, trails, and boundaries. Their accumulated bank of...


Of Grave Concern: Macro Threats to Inland Historic African-American Burials and Challenges for Northeast Florida (2022)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Sarah E. Miller. Emily Jane Murray. Emma Dietrich. Kassie Kemp.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Beyond the Shoreline: Heritage at Risk at Inland Sites" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Human burial sites are increasingly at risk from environmental disasters, vandalism, and development. While individual headstones face a mosaic of these threats, historic cemeteries—particularly African American burial grounds—are so threatened Florida legislators passed a bill in 2021 to convene a task force to address...


People of Guana: Dynamic Coastlines, Mutating Methodologies, and Collaborative Science (2023)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Sarah Miller. Emily Jane Murray. Kassie Kemp. Lori Lee. Lindsey Cochran. Meg Gaillard.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Methods for Monitoring Heritage at Risk Sites in a Rapidly Changing Environment", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. For 6,000 years, people have called the Guana Peninsula in Northeast Florida home. Now, natural and cultural resources on the peninsula are at risk of climate change and development impacts. The Guana Tolomato Matanzas Estuarine Research Reserve (NERR) directly manages the southern portion of the...


A Plan to Revive a Failed Stewardship Program (2023)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Melissa Zabecki.

This is an abstract from the "Site Stewardship Matters: Comparing and Contrasting Site Stewardship Programs to Advance Our Practice" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Site stewardship looks different in every state based on how the archeology programs are organized. Public archaeological networks, archaeological surveys, SHPOs, state archaeologist offices, academic departments, and volunteer organizations are connected in infinite configurations...


Site Stewards in Northwest New Mexico: Protecting Our Cultural Heritage via a Community-Supported Program (2019)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Larry Baker.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In northwestern New Mexico, there are thousands of archaeological sites that span the complete cultural and temporal spectrum of human occupation in the region. Many of these cultural resources are located in remote areas and as backcountry sites, are often prey to looting and vandalism, particularly those exhibiting standing architecture and rock art. In many...


Uncommon Engagement: Integrating Archaeology into High School Education (2016)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Lindsay Randall. Marla Taylor.

Archaeology-centered education is typically relegated to throw-away curricula in elementary school classrooms, often not to be discussed again until post-secondary education. The Peabody Museum strives to break this pattern by actively engaging high school students and teachers in ways that connect archaeology to their everyday lives. This is done through a work study program focusing on hands-on interaction with artifacts, as well as teaching traditional subjects with archaeology. This model...


Use It or Lose It: How to Activate Public Stewards to Protect Archaeological Sites (2023)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Elizabeth Hora. Ian Wright. Matt Podolinsky. Lexi Carson.

This is an abstract from the "Site Stewardship Matters: Comparing and Contrasting Site Stewardship Programs to Advance Our Practice" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In 1996, the SAA enshrined Stewardship as Principle No. 1 for a reason: without stewards of the archaeological record, there is no hope for its long-term preservation. Many of us are satisfied with our own roles as site caretakers, but in Utah, it was not enough. Repeated and dramatic...


VAMPing Up Stewardship in the National Parks: Preliminary Lessons from the Volunteer Archeological Monitoring Program (2023)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Lexie Lowe. Amy Roache-Fedchenko. James Nyman. Margaret Wilkes.

This is an abstract from the "Site Stewardship Matters: Comparing and Contrasting Site Stewardship Programs to Advance Our Practice" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. From 2021–2022, the Northeast Archeological Resources Program (NARP) began partnering with five National Park units to pilot a new initiative: the design and facilitation of a region-wide volunteer archeological site monitoring program. Working with park staff and stakeholders at the...