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DOCUMENT Citation Only Mark Freeman. Jeanne Moe.

Project Archaeology is a comprehensive national archaeology education program, jointly sponsored by the Bureau of Land Management and Montana State University, which uses archaeological inquiry to foster understanding of past and present cultures; improve social studies and science education; and enhance citizenship education to help preserve our archaeological legacy. To date it has reached more than 15,000 educators with curriculum guides, activity guides, and professional development. These...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Elliot Schultz.

This is an abstract from the "Archaeologies of the Eastern Jemez Mountain Range and the Pajarito Plateau: Interagency Collaboration for Management of Cultural Landscapes" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. As budgets for resource preservation and protection are outpaced by increases in visitation, managers in many parks, monuments, and protected areas depend on public interpretation as a cost-effective strategy to safeguard sensitive cultural and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Olivia Jones. Megan Leight.

This is an abstract from the "Archaeology to Transform and Disrupt: Teaching, Learning, and the Pedagogies of the Future" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Students studying anthropology and art history at West Virginia University (WVU) have not always had access to experiential learning and laboratory training experiences. However, recent initiatives by early career faculty have boosted student engagement and prompted career success. In this...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kirby Farah. Benjamin Luley.

This is an abstract from the "Pedagogy in the Undergraduate Archaeology Classroom" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This paper reflects on an archaeological field methods course designed for Gettysburg College and taught in fall 2021. This course, which we will continue to teach in coming years, represents a new offering at the college and meets a growing need to train anthropology majors who wish to focus on archaeology as a career. Students...

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 Sadie Whitehurst. Tad Britt. Diana Greenlee.

This is an abstract from the "New and Emerging Geophysical and Geospatial Research in the National Parks" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The National Park Service’s Center for Preservation Technology and Training (NCPTT) facilitated a workshop for archaeologists in May 2023 at the Poverty Point National Historic Landmark/World Heritage Site as part of an ongoing effort to research human remains detection (HRD) dogs for nondestructive...

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 Shannon Boomgarden. Ian Farrell. Jenna Foster. Duncan Metcalfe.

This is an abstract from the "Experimental Pedagogies: Teaching through Experimental Archaeology Part II" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Ten years ago, the archaeological field school at the Range Creek Field Station explicitly embarked on a new direction of research. Students continue to receive training in excavation and survey techniques but actualistic experiments were added to the curriculum. The experiments are designed to calculate the...

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 Kelly Goldberg. Stacey Young.

This is an abstract from the "Collaborative and Community Archaeology" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Sesquicentennial State Park, built by the Civilian Conservation Corps and opened to the public in 1940, contains multiple archaeological sites representing both precontact and historic occupations. Current archaeological excavations are focused on investigating the history of nineteenth and twentieth century African American communities which were...

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 Isabella Erter. Robert Cook. Emiley Gottwald.

This is an abstract from the "Improving and Decolonizing Precontact Legacy Collections with Fieldwork: Making Sense of Harvard’s Turpin Site Expedition (Ohio)" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Archaeologists are often good at communicating with each other, but not usually at conveying our findings to wider audiences. This seems particularly true in the US Midwest, where visibility of the remains of ancient sites is low, in contrast to places like...

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 Jason Kennedy. James Berry.

This is an abstract from the "Experimental Pedagogies: Teaching through Experimental Archaeology Part 1" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The study of archaeological ceramics has relied on a reconstruction of the techno-functional choices made by potters in the past through a chaîne opératoire approach. However, the insights gained through this analysis have largely confused or eluded our students due to a lack of practical experience with ceramic...

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 Malkia Okech.

This is an abstract from the "Archaeological Futures through a Virtual Past" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. African Digital Heritage (ADH) is a Nairobi-based nonprofit organization working to encourage a more critical, holistic, and knowledge-based approach to digital solutions within African heritage. Through this, we hope to cement the place of African culture in an era of rapidly changing technologies and endless frontiers. Our focus areas are...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kaitlyn Kingsland.

This is an abstract from the "Leveling Up: Gaming and Game Design in Archaeological Education and Outreach" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The digital turn in archaeology sees an increased interest in combining gaming and archaeology. Integrating serious games with archaeology demonstrates benefits for the public of all ages and background to learn about the past in the classroom, at cultural heritage institutions, and at home. This paper seeks to...

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 Eric Heller. Benjamin Bellorado.

This is an abstract from the "Leveling Up: Gaming and Game Design in Archaeological Education and Outreach" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Virtual reality is a valuable tool for public engagement and education, offering an immersive platform for the exploration of archaeological and cultural heritage landscapes. While not a gaming endeavor, cultural heritage VR draws from 3D gaming technologies and techniques to create the platform at the heart of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Elisa Mathieu.

This is an abstract from the "Fulfilling a Nation’s Promise: The Search, Recovery, and Accounting Efforts of DPAA and Its Partners" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Investigating archaeological sites related to the recovery of MIAs from past conflicts requires international collaboration among various agencies and civilian volunteers. I graduated in 2023 as an art history and archaeology student at the University of Namur (Belgium). I served as an...

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...