Archaeology Field school (Other Keyword)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Whitney Battle-Baptiste. Robert Paynter. Christopher Douyard. Elena Sesma. Anthony Martin. Honora Sullivan-Chin.

Archaeology at the W.E.B. Du Bois Homesite was based on the goals of combining archaeological problem solving with the teaching of field methods and techniques.  It began in the 1980s when the dominant ethic in archaeology was conservation and Cultural Resource Management. Today, the dominant practice of archaeology has been transformed by projects like the New York African Burial Ground  to revolutionized how we think about archaeology’s relationship with the community.  This paper, based on...