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DOCUMENT Citation Only Christopher N. Matthews.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Advocacy in Archaeology: Thoughts from the Urban Frontier" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. This paper follows up my presentation at the 2019 SHA conference where I proposed but did not define the concept of A People's Preservation. This paper picks up this unfinished work. Through illustrations of research and advocacy related to the archaeology and history of urban and suburban Essex County, NJ, I examine...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Sukanya Sharma.

The megaliths of Cherrapunjee, are part of a prehistoric cultural tradition which is intricately woven with the socio-cultural life of the Khasis and Jaintias. But material changes in the nature of society and the economy in the latter half of the twentieth century have resulted in new identity formations in Cherrapunjee and this has undermined some of the presumed certainties of cultural identity. This study documented local community attitudes regarding the megaliths and how the community...