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DOCUMENT Citation Only Matthew Howland. Brady Liss. Mohammad Najjar. Thomas Levy.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2021: General Sessions" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Archaeological research should not only be published in academic journals but also shared with the public and stakeholding communities. Ideally, the public should have opportunities to interact with cultural heritage and interpret it on their own terms. In today’s digital environment, hypermedia and deep mapping are ways of increasing the accessibility of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Steven Campbell.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Mt Tabor AME Zion Church is located in Mt Holly Springs, Pennsylvania and is a standing log cabin structure that dates to 1871. There is an active descendant African American community around the Mt Tabor AME Zion Church that is proud of their heritage and would like to tell their story. The main goal of this project is to interpret survey data from the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jack Gary.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Colonial Williamsburg’s Department of Archaeology will conclude five years of excavation on the garden of John Custis IV, a 4-acre space regarded as one of the most ornate early eighteenth-century gardens in Virginia. Filled with topiaries, experimental plantings, and classical statuary, the garden itself was created and maintained by African American...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Charles Bello.

This is an abstract from the "Collaborative and Community Archaeology" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Introduction to the Session on Collaborative and Community Archaeology - outlining the history of this decade-long SAA symposium.

DOCUMENT Citation Only Suzie Thomas.

This is an abstract from the "Collaborative and Community-Based Archaeology" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In this paper I present the work of SuALT: the Finnish Archaeological Finds Recording Linked Open Database (Fi: Suomen arkeologisten löytöjen linkitetty avoin tietokanta). SuALT is still in development, but aims to make it easy and reliable for members of the public to record chance archaeological finds that they discover and to browse other...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Meredith Langlitz. Ben Thomas.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2021: General Sessions" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Mock digs have been a staple of archaeologically-themed outreach for years but also an area of growing concern for professional archaeologists with expertise in public education. The activity is discouraged by some because it is suggestive of treasure hunting and emphasizes digging in a field that is so much more than that. While concerns about mock digs are...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Thomas Thompson.

This is an abstract from the ""Is There Gold in that Field?" CRM and Public Outreach on the Front Lines" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. While they usually do not work in the capacity of Public Information Officers or interpretive staff, cultural resource managers and archaeological technicians are often the ones who are literally "fielding" questions from the public. These questions invariably deal with what "grand discoveries" we have made with...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Madeline Colley.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This project builds on the still burgeoning discussion surrounding curation and repository management. Initially, the Cochise College Archaeological Repository (CCAR) was characterized by a lack of comprehensive documentation, inadequate storage conditions, and an absence of standardized curation protocols. Our priority was to move the collection out of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Scott Sunell.

This is an abstract from the "AD 1150 to the Present: Ancient Political Economy to Contemporary Materiality—Archaeological Anthropology in Honor of Jeanne E. Arnold" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Jeanne’s excavations at tlaqayam̓u (CA-SCRI-330) yielded detailed information about bead-making on limuw (Santa Cruz Island, CA) in the centuries before Spanish colonization. Two of the important classes of artifacts that underpinned the conclusions she...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Matthew Boulanger.

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. The 1971–1972 Texas Archaeological Society field schools, cohosted by Southern Methodist University, resulted in the identification of 230+ archaeological sites in Central Texas and partial excavation of several of these sites. Few of these sites were registered with the State of Texas. Poor curatorial practices—including...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Carolyn McClellan. Lawrence Loendorf.

This is an abstract from the "The Art and Archaeology of the West: Papers in Honor of Lawrence L. Loendorf" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Legend Rock is a world-renowned petroglyph site located north of Thermopolis, WY. Considered a sacred site by the Shoshone Indian Nation it features impressive and significant petroglyphs within the Dinwoody tradition. This presentation focuses on the management plan created between Wyoming State Parks and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Sara Chavarria. Stanley Bond. Barbara Mills. Rebecca Renteria.

This is an abstract from the "NPS Archeology: Engaging the Public through Education and Recreation" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Through programs like Linking Southwest Heritage through Archaeology (LSHTA), the National Park Service (NPS) reaches out to diverse neighbor communities and highlights their cultural heritage. LSHTA introduces local high school students and educators to NPS units, other heritage sites, and archaeology-related labs on...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Matt O'Mansky.

Dr. John White served as a member of the faculty at Youngstown State University from 1971 to 2005. Part of his legacy is nearly four decades of local, regional, and public archaeology. He shared his passion for the discipline with thousands of students and engaged hundreds of students and volunteers in fieldwork, both regionally and internationally. Upon John’s retirement in 2005 I was hired to take his position. In this paper, I summarize my own work and collaborations with colleagues as we...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Amanda Gomes.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. For almost two decades, Japanese archaeology has fostered discourse on public archaeology and initiatives that involve the public in archaeological practices. This development coincides with a shift in cultural resource management policies that emphasize and expand the role of cultural properties within communities. Based on a discourse analysis of the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Meghan Dudley.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. <html> Willey and Phillips (1958:2) famously once said that “American archaeology is anthropology or it is nothing” – and in the 21^st century, we got the memo. As archaeologists increasingly embrace a community-engaged archaeology like our cultural anthropological colleagues, many of us are considering ways our collaboratively created work can...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Tim Messner.

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. For several million years our ancestors used tools to shape their world, and themselves. Some argue we have lost our way, as artificial intelligence and machine learning has reshaped the fabric of society. Our post-industrial, capitalist mode of production resulted in a nearly complete detachment from the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Stephanie Sperling.

This is an abstract from the "Public Lands, Public Sites: Research, Engagement, and Collaboration" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Thousands of people are employed by Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission (M-NCPPC), Department of Parks and Recreation, Prince George’s County, but only two of them are full-time archaeologists. These professionals are supported by a small part-time staff and are responsible for the stewardship of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Ben Resnick.

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. American archaeology today is focused on the identification and evaluation of historic properties in accordance with the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966. While this has created a body of work in compliance with environmental and historic preservation laws, for the most part, these...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Roberto Herrera.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This paper treats Archaeology as an exercise in revitalizing social memory. In it we detail the current development of the Anthropology degree program at Medgar Evers College CUNY. Emphasizing anthropology and archaeology as a means to promote the underrepresented narratives of marginal groups in the Americas, the program also provides the knowledge required...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Laura Phillips. Erin Younger.

This is an abstract from the "From Middens to Museums: Papers in Honor of Julie K. Stein" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In the Pacific Northwest today, the professional expectation is that archaeology and community are, or at least should be, intertwined. While collaboration and cooperation are not always easy, past projects spearheaded by Dr. Julie Stein, curator and now executive director, at the Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture in...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kary Stackelbeck. Allison Douglas. Shawn Lambert. Bonnie Pitblado. Meghan Dudley.

True to the title of the 2017 Oklahoma Archaeology Month poster, its creation involved an extensive collaborative effort. The theme celebrates both the long-standing education and outreach efforts of the Oklahoma Archeological Survey and the founding of the Oklahoma Public Archaeology Network (OKPAN). OKPAN sponsored the competitive recruitment for an artist to conceive the poster, which generated multiple submissions and spawned other creative partnerships. The poster displays an original,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Nicole Grinnan. Michael Thomin.

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. With the second longest coastline in the United States, Florida has a maritime past that spans at least 14,000 years of human habitation. Archaeological collections from prehistoric middens, colonial-era shipwrecks, and industrial coastal communities, among a variety of other maritime and submerged sites,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only William Balco.

This is an abstract from the "Broader Impacts and Teaching: Engaging with Diverse Audiences" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Engaging students, landowners, the public, and policy makers in the scientific process of archaeology is an essential component of our discipline and creates opportunities to impress upon these groups the value of historic preservation. Doing so demonstrates that archaeological and historic resources are limited and fragile,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Terry Brock.

In 2008, Lynne Goldstein founded the Michigan State University Campus Archaeology Program. I had the opportunity to serve as the first Campus Archaeologist, a position that I thought would give me much needed experience in conducting and leading archaeological excavations. In addition to this, I ended up learning more about becoming a complete professional and public archaeologist, the intangible skills that are so difficult to teach, but that Dr. Goldstein has bestowed upon many of her students...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jesse Gunnels.

This is an abstract from the "Public Lands, Public Sites: Research, Engagement, and Collaboration" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Military lands have evolved over the years, beginning as coastal defenses and outposts on the frontier, to major military installations that are small self-contained cities. Beyond their significance for national security and training, these lands contain natural and cultural resources that present unique challenges in...