Public and Community Archaeology (Other Keyword)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Krystiana Krupa. Rhianna Bennett. Anna Coon. William Farley.

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. The subdiscipline of archaeogaming has gained traction over the last several years, applying archaeological methods to and in video and tabletop games. Archaeology as a field focuses on concepts of space and place (and their roles in the past) quite literally, and it lends itself well to game...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Dina Rivera.

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. Stewardship in archaeology has had it's run around the debate block regarding definitions and scope as to whom and what archaeologists are exactly protecting and promoting out of the archaeological record. Ethical principles of public...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Makanani Bell.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Archaeologists hold tremendous power and voice through producing knowledge about people who came before. Our interpretations of the past affect societies today and future generations. Involving non-archaeologists in the research process, through community engagement, amplifies this potential. Heritage management and archaeology have long espoused the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Joshua Vallejos. Katherine Peck.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Archaeological field research can be expensive for a student or a small cultural resource management (CRM) firm. This poster proposes inexpensive and efficient methods for students conducting field research and CRM companies with limited startup resources. We discuss the results of field testing our digital workflow, which utilizes Avenza Maps Pro, a...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Ellie Minette.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Pensacola has been invested in public archaeology since the 1980s when Dr. Judith Bense began the Hawkshaw Project. Since then, archaeologists have continued to prioritize and promote public engagement, education, and stewardship through books, exhibitions, presentations, field trips, and a variety of other methods. This research examines the evolution of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Christopher Ringstaff.

This is an abstract from the "What’s Going on in Texas? Current Topics in Texas Archaeology" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. As part of flintknapping experimental design, archeologists must consider raw materials and knapping tools that best replicate those used in the production of the artifacts being studied. While conducting research on indirect percussion as a reduction method in Texas lithic assemblages, a collections and literature review...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Alexander Smith. Nathan Hayes. Vincent Feucht. Chris Matagne.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Cumming Nature Center of Naples, New York contains a significant portion of the remains of a 19th century logging settlement, once known as Frost Town. The site, home to many Euro-American settlers throughout the 19th century, saw the rapid rise of a logging-based economy associated with the growing industrialization of Western New York, following the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Emily Dean.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In Fall 2024 Southern Utah University, a regional, teaching focused, public university, offered its first ever undergraduate course on Experimental Archaeology. Experimental Archaeology has long been recognized as a particularly effective and impactful educational approach, at both the public and the student level (c.f. Clarkson 2015, Outram 2008,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jasmine Saxon.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Explore the spirit of preservation with Community Connections LLC, a women-owned archaeological consulting firm committed to advancing community-informed outcomes and non-traditional cultural resources practices. We'll examine case studies such as Guardians of Historic Lakewood and International Archaeology Day to unravel the complex dynamics between...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Guy Duke. Sarah Rowe. Brandi Reger.

During excavations at the Valdivia site of Buen Suceso, Ecuador, in 2017 we recovered a number of figurines. Using in-field photogrammetry and post-field processing, we have created digital 3D models of these figurines. For us, the purpose of photogrammetric models is: 1) to facilitate comparisons across assemblages by a variety of scholars, and 2) for use in public education and outreach. While the creation of 3D images via photogrammetry is becoming more common in archaeological practice, the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Grant Coffey. Mark Varien.

The expansion of the Chacoan regional system into Southwestern Colorado was relatively late compared to other areas, occurring for the most part from A.D. 1080 to 1140. This poster examines this late expansion by focusing on Chaco-style great houses located in the Great Sage Plain of southwestern Colorado. Information on these Chacoan sites has been compiled during a series of projects that began in the late 1980s and continued with 2017 fieldwork during the Community Center Reassessment...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Suzie Thomas. Anna Wessman.

This is an abstract from the "Collaborative and Community Archaeology" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Avocationals including metal detectorists can be defined as finder-collectors. This includes people who keep collections, including objects they have themselves found, but also possibly objects that they have acquired through purchasing, swapping, gifting, or by other means. This category expressly does not include people who loot but does include...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Bill Iseminger.

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 nearly five decades of working in public archaeology at Cahokia Mounds State Historic Site, I have witnessed and experienced the importance of public awareness of archaeology and American Indian cultures and found the need to overcome stereotypes the public has about both.This has been...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Marcia Bezerra Almeida. Clarice Bianchezzi.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In this presentation we discuss the practice of collecting artifacts, considering the perspectives of the collectors and of the State in Brazil. We assume that collecting is an act that should be understood from a phenomenological approach. Our reflections take into account the affective relationships between the collectors and the artifacts, and also the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only John Walden. Antonio Beardall. Frank Tzib. Christina Warinner. Jaime Awe.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Our poster presents ongoing efforts at creating a collaborative research environment between international and Belizean early career scholars at the Classic Maya center of Lower Dover, Belize. Rather than incorporating Belizean collaborators in pre-existing research projects, our current goal has been to collaborate with Belizean early career scholars to...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Amanda Rasmussen.

Fort Halifax Park, located in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, contains archaeological potential for both prehistoric and historic resources alike. The local community is proud of its heritage but lacks the resources and expertise to properly care and manage the property. Future development, which once seemed only a dream for the community, is now a possibility through a joint partnership involving The Friends of Fort Halifax, the Indiana University of Pennsylvania, the Pennsylvania Historic and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Corey Bowen.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Combating pseudoarchaeology in popular discourse requires not only analyzing the rhetoric of its most vocal proponents, but understanding the misconceptions that predispose audiences to listen. Social media may permit a glimpse at those misconceptions in ways that classroom settings and traditional surveys cannot. With four million unique monthly users,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Nina Schreiner.

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. Stewarding state-controlled archaeological collections is challenging when state budget allocations determine the degree to which best practices may be realized in the repository. When daily routines are constrained by under-resourcing, engaging community stakeholders may seem out of reach; but regardless of capacity,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Caitlin Curtis. Peter Cobb. Ani Avagyan. Gohar Hovakimyan.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This field report recounts our newly realized collaborative children’s educational workshop at the Vedi Fortress in Armenia. In June 2022, the Ararat Plain Southeast Archaeological Project (APSAP) partnered with the National Gallery of Armenia and the Armenian Heritage Development Fund to run our first “From the Field to the Museum” Summer School. Children...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Alexander Smith.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2021: General Sessions" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Frost Town Archaeology (FTA) is a historical archaeological project through SUNY Brockport and the Rochester Museum and Science Center that explores the site of Frost Town, a once thriving logging area that was gradually abandoned during the early 20th century. FTA examines the environmental devastation of the Euro-American presence in the Finger Lakes region,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Tanner Haynes. Tristan O'Donnell. Frank Schuler.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Photogrammetry has seen increasing utilization within archaeology in recent years but with the rise of this representational methodology has come several challenges including the loss of context, inaccurate reproduction of surfaces, and difficulties processing thin objects. Emerging free open-source machine learning technology can produce novel scenes...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jorge Freire.

Cascais Municipality has developed a comprehensive program management and valorisation of Underwater Cultural Heritage. Based on Maritime Cultural landscape epistemology it aims to enable a novel approach to integrated management with a dual goal of knowledge and enjoyment. Within methodological lines of this program have grown the actions related to education. From the theory of actor network – has been introduced the theme in the local community, allowing for public enjoyment in situ but,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Rory Becker. Danny Walker. Carolyn Buff.

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. A multi-instrument survey of the Fort Union National Monument was conducted during the 2014 field season. The survey covered approximately 13.4 ha (33 acres) and was funded through a CESU grant with the National Park Service. The multi-instrument survey detailed evidence of intact, subsurface structural elements...

DOCUMENT Citation Only John Pouley.

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. Archaeologists that engage in public outreach have the ability to fulfill several important objectives, both for the general public and for themselves. The act of informing non-archaeologists what professionals do, and why, has the potential to decrease unlawful looting, provide a better sense of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Stefan Woehlke.

This is an abstract from the "Collaborative and Community Archaeology" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The North Brentwood Community Heritage Project developed out of a conversation in December of 2019 between one of the authors and a town councilmember. Work on the project finally began with digital documentation work in October of 2021, after a long Covid delay. The first excavation began in the Summer of 2022. Additional digital documentation...