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DOCUMENT Citation Only Rebecca Gibson.

This is an abstract from the "What Have You Done For Us Lately?: Discrimination, Harassment, and Chilly Climate in Archaeology" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. While workplace affecting disabilities are covered by the ADA (Americans with Disabilities Act), oftentimes universities struggle with how to accommodate faculty with disabilities. When conversations between faculty and chairpersons occur, they may cover only the bare minimum that must be...

DOCUMENT Citation Only F. Scott Worman.

For at least the past decade, college campuses have been inundated with buzzwords like active learning, flipped classroom, metacognition, and learning-centered teaching. While these concepts and the related pedagogical techniques can be highly successful there are many barriers to effective implementation, particularly in large introductory-level classes. Two of the most significant barriers are enculturation of both students and instructors to expect certain forms of classroom interaction and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Edward Gonzalez-Tennant. John Dysart. Taylor Collore. Rachel Thompson. Alex Nalewaik.

This is an abstract from the "Heritage Sites at the Intersection of Landscape, Memory, and Place: Archaeology, Heritage Commemoration, and Practice" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Ocala National Forest is the largest in the southern United States. Its 400,000 acres is home to 14,000 years of human history. In 2019, authors Dysart and Gonzalez-Tennant developed a multiyear project centering on an iterative approach to predictive modeling,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Aksel Casson.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The use of role-playing games (RPGs) in university courses is increasingly common in the humanities and social sciences, most notably within the discipline of history. Here I describe my efforts to construct a series of mini-RPGs for an introductory archaeology course, with units designed around key behavioral developments: the emergence of technology,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Diane Gifford-Gonzalez.

In 2015, the Executive of SAA discussed the need for action on its part to define SAA’s position regarding sexual harassment and violence, as well as harassment and violence based upon other real or perceived attributes of personal identity. On the one hand, the Board deemed it the moment for a brief general statement on these matters, as was the case with many professional organizations over this span of time. One the other hand, the Board believed that, as a professional organization with an...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Laura Phillips.

This is an abstract from the "Outreach and Education: Examples of Approaches and Strategies from the Pacific Northwest" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In October 2019, the Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture on the UW campus in Seattle reopened to the public in its new home, with an “inside-out” approach that invites audiences to visibly connect more deeply with the life of the museum. Galleries sit side-by-side with visible collection...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Robert Cook. Grace Conrad. Joseph Chambers.

This is an abstract from the "Digitizing Archaeological Practice: Education and Outreach in the Archaeogaming Subdiscipline" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. While archaeologists are quite good at communicating to each other through various professional outlets, we have not been particularly good at conveying our core findings and lessons for wider audiences. This seems particularly true in the Midwest United States. While there are likely many...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Reed Coil. Paula Doumani-Dupuy. Katherine Erdman. Madina Makulbekova.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Formal training in archaeological field methods for undergraduate students in Kazakhstan is currently not widely available or well-funded. This reality often turns students away from archaeology. Over the past year, we planned, developed, and implemented the creation of a simulated archaeological site on the Nazarbayev University campus in Nur-Sultan...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jennifer Zovar.

As an open educational resource, this textbook has been designed to incorporate the perspectives and expertise of a variety of different scholars and stakeholders from across North America. Early in the process, a ‘steering committee’ was established to try and ensure balanced coverage, maintain a relatively consistent voice, and iron out any difficulties that may arise. The steering committee has also been responsible for some of the small but important details like hunting down copyrights,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kara Fulton.

This is an abstract from the "Pedagogy in the Undergraduate Archaeology Classroom" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Many universities focus on the idea of graduating students who are “career ready.” One of the pillars of career readiness is the emphasis on transferrable skills, those skills focused on the ability to do something (e.g., think critically), as opposed to content-based or discipline-specific knowledge. In a world where the average...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Amalia Perez-Juez. Ricardo Elia. Meredith Langlitz.

Boston University’s field school in Menorca, Spain, started 17 years ago as a traditional field school experience. Over the years, we incorporated the study of archaeological heritage management—both theoretical and practical—as an integral part of the curriculum. In the last decade, the increasing number of students interested in cultural heritage management inspired us to move to a heritage management-only field school. This poster will present the results of our first season. Menorca is a...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Karin Larkin. Michelle Slaughter.

This is an abstract from the "Archaeology Education: Building a Research Base" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Cultural Resource Management (CRM) professionals lament that they felt unprepared upon graduation for entering the field of compliance archaeology and recent graduates often complain that they are not qualified for CRM jobs as posted. This anecdotal information raises the question of whether field schools and undergraduate programs...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Margaret Helzer.

This is an abstract from the "Pedagogy in the Undergraduate Archaeology Classroom" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. After three decades of teaching archaeology courses at the college level, students still ask me about my views on Sasquatch, aliens, and intelligent design. In fact, these questions come up more frequently now than they ever had in the past. Those of us who teach archaeology are faced with a paradox: while current advancements in...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Peter Robertshaw. Frances Berdan. Bernardo Renteria.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Field schools have been the best way to provide hands-on experience with archaeological fieldwork in an environment geared to student learning. However, field schools are beyond the financial and logistical reach of many students, particularly first-generation students and those from underrepresented groups. The decreasing costs and increasing accessibility of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Alexander Rivas. Brent Woodfill.

Although scientific consensus was reached on the issue of human-made climate change earlier this century, it continues to be a controversial subject in the public sphere. Archaeologists, as scientists interested in a longue durée approach to human society and the environment, have thus been thrust into another ideological battlefield as hard-fought as the theory of evolution by natural selection, but with perhaps graver consequences. As we move fully into the Capitalocene, it is of the utmost...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Mairead Doery.

This is an abstract from the "Pedagogy in the Undergraduate Archaeology Classroom" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Graduate students occupy a unique space in undergraduate archaeological education. We serve as teaching assistants, field school instructors, and trusted mentors to our undergraduate students, yet unlike professors, we are not viewed as commensurate authorities in the classroom. Simultaneously, we are positioned professionally as...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Juan Hiriart.

This is an abstract from the "From Tomb Raider to Indiana Jones: Pitfalls and Potential Promise of Archaeology in Pop Culture" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Digital games and simulations based on historical themes or settings have been used in school classrooms for more than 50 years, however, still key questions concerning their representational appropriateness, educational effectiveness, and practical implementation remain largely unanswered....

DOCUMENT Citation Only Olivia Navarro-Farr.

The year 2017 was one of extraordinary science activism. Scientists took to the streets as the overwhelming empirical evidence demonstrating humanity’s role in ushering in global warming continued to be ignored. Politicization of climate change, and science itself, has fostered a dangerous rejection of scientific knowledge prompting numerous conspiracy theories involving everything from so-called flat-earthers to anti-vaxxers, intelligent design proponents and climate deniers. Such perilous and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Katharine Napora. Kristine Schenk. Chris Saunders.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Dendroarchaeology, the use of tree-ring analyses to understand past human societies, is an excellent subfield by which to introduce students and the public to archaeological science because of its accessibility: trees are a visible part of many peoples’ daily lives, and people often have basic knowledge of tree growth that can be drawn on to introduce the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Philip Carr. Julie Estis. Cecelia Martin.

Team-Based Learning (TBL), a powerful pedagogical tool, has several essential elements: forming permanent teams; flipping the classroom; a specific sequence of individual work and teamwork; and immediate feedback. As a polar opposite of the traditional "sage on the stage" pedagogy, there are advantages and disadvantages for implementation of TBL in a moderate-sized (50+ students) introductory course. Specifics of the implementation are discussed for this first time use of TBL in AN 101 and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Sarah Hinkelman. Robert Cook.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In the US Midwest, most students are exposed only briefly to the precontact history in the fourth grade and then not again unless they opt for archaeology as an elective in college. The Ohio Board of Education requires teachers to merely state that American Indians lived in Ohio, participated in the War of 1812, and then died or left the area....

DOCUMENT Citation Only Samantha Ellens.

This is an abstract from the "Touching the Past: Public Archaeology Engagement through Existing Collections" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Unearthing Detroit Project is a collections-based research and public archaeology initiative focused on the historical collections housed in the Grosscup Museum of Anthropology at Wayne State University. Reflecting on our experiences and integrated feedback has allowed Unearthing Detroit to consider the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Renae Campbell. Mark Warner.

This is an abstract from the "The Future of Education and Training in Archaeology" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. A familiar refrain among archaeologists working outside of academia is the myriad of training shortcomings in higher education anthropology programs. There is no doubt that there is room for improvement within the academy. However, there is also room for CRM, state, and federal archaeologists to collaborate in training students more...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Phyllis Messenger. Patrick Nunnally.

This paper will discuss hands-on uses of social media to help students engage with climate change. A central case study is an interdisciplinary design course on the Mississippi River and the city, taught in spring 2011 by coauthor Patrick Nunnally in which students confronted historic floods on the Mississippi River in real time through a series of twitter assignments. The analysis will discuss how the assignments were set up and carried out, what happened, and what the outcomes were, in...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Margaret Fye. Wolfgang Whitney-Hul.

This is an abstract from the "Community Matters: Enhancing Student Learning Opportunities through the Development of Community Partnerships" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Pima Community College archaeology program has conducted field work at AZ BB: 5:127 (ASM), the Twentynine Wash site, intermittently since 1997. The Twentynine Wash site is a large Hohokam habitation site that lies in the western foothills of the Santa Catalina Mountains...