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DOCUMENT Citation Only Katie Wynia. Devin Martin. Douglas Wilson.

This is an abstract from the "Digging Deeper: Pushing Ourselves to Engage the Public in Our Shared Heritage through Outreach and Education" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Public Archaeology Field School at Fort Vancouver National Historic Site, in Vancouver, Washington, is a long-standing partnership between Portland State University, Washington State University Vancouver, and the National Park Service. The program teaches archaeological field...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Efrain Ocasio.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Named the most valuable shipwreck to be recovered, the Nuestra Senora de Atocha was part of the Spanish Tierra Firme fleet bound for Spain in 1622 until a severe hurricane sank the vessel off the Florida Keys. In 1985, treasure hunter Mel Fisher and a crew of salvage divers uncovered the main hull of the Atocha along with a vast number of valuables. The...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kelly Baer.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The expansion of digital technology has allowed archaeologists to quickly adopt new techniques and digital tools for use in the field. From the early days of analog recording and hand-drawn maps to contemporary tools like photogrammetry and 3D modeling, the rapid evolution of technology has led to greater accuracy and efficiency when collecting and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Joshua Lynch.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In 2024, Arkansas Tech University (ATU), in partnership with the Ozark St. Francis National Forests and the WRI Research Station of the Arkansas Archaeological Survey, executed the first RPA4-certified Field School conducted on public lands in Arkansas. This four-week field school offered students and professional archaeologists the opportunity to gain...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Emma Verstraete.

This is an abstract from the "Interactions with Pseudoarchaeology: Approaches to the Use of Social Media and the Internet for Correcting Misconceptions of Archaeology in Virtual Spaces" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Current digital tools and social media provide a near constant stream of data. While the trustworthiness of this data may be suspect, communication mediums such as internet memes and Tumblr blog posts saturate common search results....

DOCUMENT Citation Only James Cawley.

This is an abstract from the "Collaborative and Community Archaeology" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. James Cawley, a Cultural Technologist and Creative Director of the Northwestern Band of the Shoshone Nation, demonstrates how interactive technology and digital storytelling can empower Indigenous communities. His presentation showcases his work at the discovery site of 12,000-year-old footprints on the United States Air Force's Utah Test and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Lauren Bussiere.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. As an archaeological repository, the University of Texas at Austin’s Texas Archeological Research Laboratory is simultaneously a public-facing entity and a gatekeeper, standing between the public and a massive corpus of sensitive archaeological evidence in the form of held-in-trust archaeological collections and records. It is therefore not surprising that...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Summer Kiker.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Since the early 2000s, the Belize Institute of Archaeology has been expending considerable effort to enhance the tourism potential of its archaeological sites, to contribute to heritage education in rural areas of the country, and to provide information that can be used by tourism stakeholders. To assist these Belizean initiatives, archaeologists from...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Pamela Pascali. Kirsten Green Mink. Jaime Awe.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Archaeological sites in the United States are governed by a complex network of state and federal regulations, sovereign tribal governments, and private landowners. This often leads to difficulties managing access to heritage sites and their research potential. In contrast, extant literature describes the efforts of the Belize Institute of Archaeology and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only J. Gregory Smith. Kierson Crume.

This is an abstract from the "Collaborative and Community-Based Archaeology" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This paper reports on a developing collaboration in northwest Wyoming between Northwest College (NWC) and the Bureau of Land Management, Cody Field Office (BLM). The collaboration began as an informal partnership where college students visited prehistoric archaeological sites on BLM land as part of an extra credit field trip. This past fall,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Katelyn Kitch.

This is an abstract from the "Many Voices in the Repository: Community-Based Collections Work" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. <html> The Moore-Hancock Farmstead, a historic-age mid-19^th century log cabin structure and associated buildings located in central Austin, Texas, has been the subject of archaeological investigations since the early 1990s. Though the collections produced by this work sat on repository shelves for decades, they...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Mary Whisenhunt. Kristin Corl. John Whisenhunt. Robert Hard. John Roney.

Southeastern Arizona’s upper Gila River Valley is an understudied area once heavily occupied by prehistoric people from the Early Agriculture to Salado periods. Over time, many important archaeological sites in the Duncan-York Valley, particularly those of large, aggregated communities, were extensively looted or destroyed due to agricultural and construction leveling. To document and, ideally, preserve the remains of these vulnerable sites, we have emphasized establishing relationships of trust...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Nikki Mills.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This research project explores the ways in which the professional world of archaeology clashes with collectors, and how understanding both domains is vital to furthering knowledge of the past. By combining methods of collaboration as well as ethnohistory and field methodologies, professionals and other stewards of the past can retro-actively document sites...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Thomas Penders.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Archaeologists for Autism mission is to unlock the potential of children and young adults with autism spectrum disorders, and at the same time, we aim to provide children on the spectrum and their families with a chance to experience archaeology (as well as paleontology, history and Native American heritage) in a fun, low stress environment. We present the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Paul Everill.

This is an abstract from the "Archaeological Congress: Multivocal Conversations Furthering the World Archaeological Congress Agenda" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Archaeology, heritage, and the historic environment more broadly are increasingly recognized as powerful tools in the delivery of community mental health and well-being benefits. Archaeology as a therapeutic intervention for veterans achieved significant public profile through the work...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Susan Prezzano.

This is an abstract from the "Archaeology as a Public Good: Why Studying Archaeology Creates Good Careers and Good Citizens" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. During the past twenty years, the anthropology program at Clarion University, a small public university in rural western Pennsylvania, participated in a partnership with the Heritage Program of the Allegheny National Forest focused on the excavation of archaeological sites within the boundaries...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jayur Mehta. Tara Skipton.

This is an abstract from the "*SE New Orleans and Its Environs: Historical Archaeology and Environmental Precarity" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Evergreen Plantation Archaeological Survey (EPAS) focuses on understanding Black life during contexts of enslavement and post-Emancipation on Evergreen Plantation within Louisiana’s Cancer Alley. In Summer 2023, EPAS hosted its first interdisciplinary field school in which students not only learned...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Mikaela Razo.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This project is a collaboration between the Texas Heritage Project (THP) and its archive at the American Indians in Texas at the Spanish Colonial Missions (AITSCM) and the Community Engaged Digital Scholarship Hub (CEDISH) at the University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) in San Antonio, Texas. We are taking a community-based archaeological approach to a...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Katrina Bettcher. Lidio Valdez.

THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF THE ACARI VALLEY AND THE LEGACY OF FRANCIS ALLEN "FRITZ" RIDDELL Katrina J. Bettcher & Lidio M. Valdez In 1954, newlywed archaeologists Francis Allen "Fritz" Riddell and Dorothy Menzel arrived in the Acari Valley on the south coast of Peru with the purpose of investigating the site of Tambo Viejo as part of the Inca Royal Highway Project directed by Victor von Hagen. Various sites in the region were recorded and investigated. After retirement in the early 1980s, Fritz was...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Juan Jijon. Marcos Labrada.

This is an abstract from the "Working with the Community in Ecuador" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Tabuga, pequeña comunidad agrícola del norte de Manabi corresponde a un importante sitio arqueológico de la cultura Jama-Coaque (500 ac - 1650 dc). Ante años de expolio por huaqueros, del bloqueo del acceso al mar por el narcotráfico y de la falta de interés por la autoridades locales, la comunidad de Tabuga ha decidido enfrentar estos obstáculos...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Sarah Miller. Laura Clark.

The Florida Public Archaeology Network (FPAN) launched the citizen science-based Heritage Monitoring Scout (HMS Florida) program statewide during the fall of 2016 in part to assist Florida’s Division of Historical Resources, which currently does not have the budget or policy permissions in place for climate change concerned initiatives. During the first year, 233 volunteers signed up and submitted over 312 monitoring forms from across the state. This paper will provide affordances and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Willeke Wendrich.

In the years of willful destruction of cultural heritage as part of an extremist obliteration of the past, there have been several instances in the news of local populations taking stance against these destructive forces. In some cases protection of cultural heritage has become a voice against suppression and the reconstruction of destroyed monuments, e.g. through 3D printing and resurrecting lost parts, an act of defiance. Most destruction of cultural heritage, however, takes place much more...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Samantha Dunham.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. <html> The Auburn Joss House Chinese History Museum is one of the few remaining structures from the mid-19^th to 20^th-century Chinatown in Auburn, California — a prominent gold rush town. A man named Charles Yue opened it as the Ling Ying Association building in the 1920s to be used as a temple, boardinghouse, Chinese language and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Andy D'Agostino.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The McKendry Site is a multi-component pre-contact Indigenous and post-contact Euro-American site located in Chautauqua County, Western New York. Archaeological excavations involving public participation have been carried out since 1989. Throughout the site’s thirty-five excavation seasons, the past eighteen have been directed by students from the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only John Rissetto. Kelli Bacon.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. As the public increases its influence over how the discipline of archaeology defines its scientific and educational value, state-sponsored archaeological institutions, such as the State Historic Preservation Office, must continue to adapt to satisfy their professional and public audiences. In 2017, the Nebraska State Historic Preservation Office (NeSHPO)...