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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 Hands: The Impact of Antiquated Acquisitions and Legacy Loans on Archeological Collections (2024)
This is an abstract from the session entitled "Hidden In The Hollinger: What We Can Learn From Archeological Legacy Collections In The National Park Service", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. As a response to New Deal construction, the Archeological Research Unit (ARU) was largely created to conduct salvage archeology in the Southeast. Since forming out of the ARU in 1966, the National Park Service’s Southeast Archeological Center (SEAC) continues to...
Changing tides, rising waters: wetland archaeology on Georgia’s lower coastal plain (2017)
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)
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)
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)
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...
Increasing Ocean Literacy and Citizen Science Opportunities for Submerged Cultural Resources in Florida: An Update (2024)
This is an abstract from the session entitled "UN Decade for Ocean Science's Heritage Network: Historical Archaeology's Contribution", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In 2017 the United Nations General Assembly declared the Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development (2021-2030). In response, the newly formed Heritage at Risk Committee sponsored its first session in partnership with UNESCO committee in 2018 in New Orleans. In that session Miller...
Interpreting a Changing Cultural Landscape – A California Rancho (2017)
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)
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...
Mixed and Matched: Collections Lessons Learned from Hopewell Furnace National Historic Site (2024)
This is an abstract from the session entitled "Hidden In The Hollinger: What We Can Learn From Archeological Legacy Collections In The National Park Service", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Hopewell Furnace National Historic Site (hereafter Hopewell Furnace) is an iconic representation of the early American industrial landscape, nestled in the picturesque rolling hills of Pennsylvania. Operational between 1771 and 1883, the Hopewell Furnace iron...
Multi-Generational Legacies: The Many Hands that Make Light, and Sometimes Confusing, Work of Legacy Collections (2024)
This is an abstract from the session entitled "Hidden In The Hollinger: What We Can Learn From Archeological Legacy Collections In The National Park Service", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Oftentimes, archeological collections will pass through multiple hands, multiple labs, and multiple instances of processing before their final curation. The 1975 to 1986 Boston African Meeting House excavation produced a large-scale collection of over 78,000 artifacts...
New Perspectives from Young Community Members at Martin Van Buren National Historic Site (2024)
This is a poster submission presented at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. This paper presents the products of a summer field season with the 2023 Urban Archaeology Corps (UAC) program. Ten students from the Albany metropolitan area trained and participated in archaeological survey and research at the Martin Van Buren National Historic Site (MAVA) in Kinderhook, New York. The students conducted this work as employees of the National Park Service. After a week of...
Of Grave Concern: Macro Threats to Inland Historic African-American Burials and Challenges for Northeast Florida (2022)
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)
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)
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...
Scout's Honor: Archaeological Stewardship of Rural Spaces with the Boy Scouts of America. (2024)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Archaeologists working in isolated rural locales continue to face the challenge of protecting archaeological sites from threats of looting and vandalism. Whether physically secluded beyond a watchful eye or simply located on private lands with few legal protections, sites in these rural spaces are at particular risk for damage or (un)intentional...
Site Stewards in Northwest New Mexico: Protecting Our Cultural Heritage via a Community-Supported Program (2019)
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)
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)
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)
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...