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DOCUMENT Citation Only Alexandria T Mitchem.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Where Accessibility and Inclusion Meet: Archaeology in the Age of Covid and Beyond" , at the 2021 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Even prior to the COVID-19 Pandemic, archaeological fieldwork presented many barriers to access, including financial, institutional, and physical. In this paper I focus on the inherently ableist nature of archaeological fieldwork, which is caused and compounded by the mythology of the rugged...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Burcu Tung.

A microcosm in itself, The Çatalhöyük Research Project has, in one way or another, intellectually, emotionally and physically altered the lives of its members. The project ethos, in turn, has changed through time with the dynamics that surround research and managerial practices of the individuals making its body. Further the project has been part of a local landscape enduring sociopolitical changes within Turkey. As a member of the Çatalhöyük Research Project since 1997, in this paper, I reflect...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Allison Parrish.

Artifacts can tell us stories, as long as we recognize that those stories include a reflection of us, the archaeologists, within those interpretations. This project comprises a theoretical approach to addressing these issues of reflexivity within archaeology as a practice. In particular, reflexivity is explored with regard to negotiations of feminine gender identity and how the agency of an unmarried, Victorian-era female homesteader parallels the agency of a female archaeologist studying her...