Public and Community Archaeology (Other Keyword)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Stephen Humphreys.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. An increasing body of literature, including peer-reviewed research, suggests that participation in archaeological fieldwork, labwork, and conservation benefits military veterans. Data now demonstrates conclusively that most military veterans will receive at least short-term mental health benefits from participation in tailored archaeological fieldwork....

DOCUMENT Citation Only Leobardo Pacheco Arias.

El Campamento de investigación del Conjunto Monumental de Atzompa, en Oaxaca, México, fue desarrollado con la participación de fondos federales y sectores privados como la Fundación Alfredo Harp Helú Oaxaca. Este espacio, que busca rescatar la arquitectura tradicional, ha permitido la práctica de estudios especializados del patrimonio arqueológico, el resguardo de objetos y el intercambio de conocimientos con los artesanos de Santa María Atzompa que han colaborado en el taller de restauración,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only R. Carl DeMuth. Michael Workman. Amy Postalwait.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In today’s climate of budget cuts and decreasing enrollments, the importance of publicly engaged projects cannot be understated as they demonstrate our value to the public in a tangible way. Archaeological field schools represent obvious opportunities for public engagement and increased visibility for both archaeology programs and their host institutions....

DOCUMENT Citation Only Alexander Menaker.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This paper explores the archaeology of blacksmithing through examining the Tom Cook Blacksmith Shop in Texas with excavations yielding more than 25,000 artifacts. This research is part of the Bolivar Archaeological Project, a collaborative, multidisciplinary project that attends to marginalized histories to offer a model for how publicly funded cultural...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jordan Davis.

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. The centrality of agrarianism to African American experience cannot be overstated. Although profoundly shaped by the legacies of racial chattel slavery and sharecropping, the story of Black agrarianism is not reducible to narratives of forced labor, exploitation, and ecological alienation. Ideologies of racial uplift and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Ruth Trocolli. Josh Silver.

Heritage Placemaking is a thing - embrace it! Learn from our mistakes. The DC Office of Planning received a grant from the Kresge Foundation to engage in creative placemaking by artist/curators with the goal of activating underused public spaces. The DC Archaeology Program saw this as an opportunity to engage in a novel form of public outreach funded by someone else. Despite best intentions, false starts, permitting issues, need for cultural sensitivity, and last-minute directives, the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Chester Liwosz. Arthur Cruz.

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. Covering 50 square miles of tablelands in northern New Mexico, Mesa Prieta (Black Mesa, Mesa Canoa) is an exceptional petroglyph landscape with remarkable historical and cultural significance. As a core part of its mission, the nonprofit Mesa Prieta Petroglyph Project’s (MP3) has long partnered...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Bryon Schroeder.

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. Engaged amateurs, or Responsive and Responsible Stewards (RRS), are the drivers behind some of the discipline's most influential field efforts and consequential material collections. There are numerous examples of RRS collaboration with the professional community, and we often use their involvement as a valuable source of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Claudia Uribe Chinen.

This is an abstract from the "Arqueología colaborativa en los Andes: Casos de estudios y reflexiones" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This presentation discusses the permeability of the Qhapaq Ñan Project’s participatory paradigm with historically rooted politics in archaeological heritage governance in Peru. In the early 2000s, the transnational nomination of the Qhapaq Ñan to the UNESCO World Heritage List harnessed a participatory approach for...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jonathan Lim.

This is an abstract from the "Adventures in Spatial Archaeometry: A Survey of Recent High-Resolution Survey and Measurement Applications" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Southwest Alaska’s Yukon-Kuskokwim (YK) Delta, where two immense salmon-bearing rivers flow into the Bering Sea, is the ancestral homeland of the Yup’ik people. This biodiverse subarctic tundra wetland is a landscape in constant flux from the annual cycle of flooding, silting, and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Anna Antoniou. Earl Davis.

This is an abstract from the "Advancing Public Perceptions of Sustainability through Archaeology" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In the U.S., indigenous communities often suffer poor health at far greater rates than non-native populations. Lower life expectancy and the disproportionate disease burden exist often because their local food diversity and sources have been diminished by restricted access and economic stresses. To remedy these health...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Andrew Carter. Nathan Lawres. Jennifer Glaze. Deborah Wold.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. As a field, it should be our responsibility to continually strive to develop engaging, approachable, and novel means to get “out of the lab” and into the general public (and help others do the same). While the Antonio J. Waring Jr. Archaeological Laboratory is primarily an archaeological repository and research facility, this philosophy has helped drive...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Samantha Rubinson. Sarah Miller.

This is an abstract from the "Democratizing Heritage Creation: How-To and When" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Data collected through site stewardship programs are unique and provide insights into the long-term preservation of archaeological sites. Stewardship programs across the country are working with communities to document changes over time from environmental and human-driven causes. Site changes are recorded using photography, monitoring...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jenna Peterson. Kendra Maroney.

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. As a federal agency, public outreach and education take many forms at the Bonneville Power Administration. Identifying and implementing effective mitigation requires meaningful and collaborative engagement with members of the public and consulting parties. Looking internally at our own workforce,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Greg Pierce. Marieka Arksey. Marcia Peterson.

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 Office of the Wyoming State Archaeologist (OWSA) has become increasingly focused on implementing public outreach initiatives to more effectively engage Wyoming’s citizenry in archaeological investigations and collections care. Our office manages the University of Wyoming Archaeological Repository, and the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Amanda Brock Morales.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In 1970 a 7.9 magnitude earthquake destroyed many towns in the Callejón de Huaylas and displaced many families. Following the earthquake, elevated monumental archaeological sites in the region, such as Chupacoto in Huaylas, were occupied by families who continue living there today. As a result of these occurrences, tensions between various stakeholders...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Veronica Waweru. Francis Kirera. Nasser Malit. Rahab Kinyanjui. Aryeh Grossman.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Human origins research in the East African region has largely focused on sites within the rift basin. The story of human origins is also credited to highly educated Western nation paleoanthropologists and a few local researchers. The work presented here demonstrates the importance of high-elevation tropical sites to human evolution using the Central...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Samantha Taylor. Sarah Lowry. Benjamin Porter.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This paper will discuss the ongoing Cypress Street School Archaeology Project in Greensboro, North Carolina. The Cypress Street School Archaeology Project is a collaborative effort between New South Associates, Inc. (NSA) and the Melvin C. Swann Jr. Middle School (Swann). In 2020, NSA partnered with the social studies faculty at Swann to provide students...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Danny Sosa Aguilar.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2021: General Sessions" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. A partnership with the Merced del Pueblo de Abiquiú in New Mexico includes a co-created archaeology research project that incorporates Abiquiuseños in research design, as well as a community leadership-vetted proposal and memorandum of agreement. This project strives to create ethical and accountable archaeology that is rooted in how archaeology can positively...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Matthew Walls. Mari Kleist.

This is an abstract from the "Arctic Pasts: Dimensions of Change" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Impact of the COVID-19 epidemic has been acute in the Arctic, where logistics and community collaborations are time sensitive. Having canceled our 2020 field season in Avanersuaq, Greenland, we decided to continue collaborative work online, while striving to bring Inughuit partners into the process of interpretation. In this paper, we present outcomes...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Max Friesen. Pamela Hakongak Gross.

This is an abstract from the "Arctic Pasts: Dimensions of Change" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Archaeology in Inuit Nunangat (northern Canada) has a long and varied history of interactions between Inuit communities and "southern" researchers. This paper is about one long-standing example of a successful relationship between an Inuit organization, the Pitquhirnikkut Ilihautiniq / Kitikmeot Heritage Society (PI/KHS) of Cambridge Bay, Nunavut, and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Melissa Zabecki.

This is an abstract from the "Site Stewardship Matters: Comparing and Contrasting Site Stewardship Programs to Advance Our Practice" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Site stewardship looks different in every state based on how the archeology programs are organized. Public archaeological networks, archaeological surveys, SHPOs, state archaeologist offices, academic departments, and volunteer organizations are connected in infinite configurations...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Joel Dukes.

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. Before Henry Wadsworth Longfellow moved into the yellow house on Brattle Street in Cambridge, MA, it was already historic, having served as the home and headquarters for General George Washington in 1775–1776. In anticipation of the upcoming 250th anniversary of the founding of the United States, the NPS Northeast...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Uzi Baram.

Before every hurricane season, the myth and popular belief that Sarasota, a medium-sized city on Florida’s Gulf Coast, is safe from hurricane gets repeated in the local newspaper. Like many folktales, the story that pre-Columbian Native American burial mounds or Ringling Brother Circus performers knew of a special quality to the region or their spirits protect it comforts the ever growing population living on the Gulf of Mexico coastline. With the majority of the residents having no long-term...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Anne Pyburn.

Contemporary trends in mass media communication indicate serious confusion in the public consciousness about the nature of science and the status of evidential reasoning. Archaeologists, in an effort to make esoteric research programs interesting to the public have contributed to this problem by providing over-simplified stories and "lessons from the past" based on sketchy evidence and mystified analysis. We have allowed public intellectuals from other disciplines to speak for us, and we have...