Public and Community Archaeology (Other Keyword)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Rebecca Simon.

This is an abstract from the "Collaborative and Community Archaeology" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Cultural Resource Management, Compliance, Public Archaeology, Community-Based Research, Collaborative Archaeology, and many other subfields create numerous intersections and roundabouts. Some connect the entire country and others make it safer for parents to drop off their kids at school in the morning. The Colorado Department of Transportation...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Dawn Crawford.

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. During his lifetime, Jay C. Blaine was a prolific avocational archaeologist, whose expertise professional and avocational archaeologists relied upon. Upon his passing at 99, Jay’s friends faced finding new homes for his collections. S. Alan Skinner, owner of AR Consultants, Inc., took on the responsibility of preserving...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Anne Jensen.

Walakpa is an iconic Arctic site with spectacular preservation. Sadly, the once stable site began eroding rapidly in 2013, with ongoing erosion outpacing attempts to obtain traditional funding for excavation. The loss of cultural heritage led to growing international volunteer efforts, starting in 2015, with support from the landowner (an Alaska Native village corporation) and many individuals. I will discuss both the success and challenges of this type of project. Walakpa is only one of many...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Dru McGill. John Wall. John K. Millhauser. Vincent Melomo. Ruth Little.

Free African-Americans established Oberlin Village outside Raleigh, North Carolina in 1866 at the end of the Civil War. Within two generations, the people of Oberlin had constructed churches, a school, a cemetery, shops, and many homes. Today, Oberlin continues to be an important site for African-American history and identity. For example, Oberlin Cemetery (established 1873) is one of only four African-American cemeteries in Raleigh. The cemetery’s more than 600 graves include many leading...

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 Ellen Moriarty. Matthew Moriarty.

This is an abstract from the "Capturing and Sharing Vermont’s Past: 3D Imaging as a Tool for Undergraduate Research and Community Engagement" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Community outreach has played a major role in the Castleton Hidden History Project, which highlights a diverse and inclusive history of the Castleton, VT area from the end of the Ice Age through the present day. Since 2023, a significant part of outreach programming has...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Nick Harvey.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Archaeologists strive to improve the methods used to record and preserve the archaeological record for future research, interpretation, and outreach. The process of photogrammetry has improved their ability to curate and share archaeological evidence by using photos to create 3D images of excavation units, features, and artifacts. Using this technology,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Autumn Melby.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Archaeologists working in isolated rural locales continue to face the challenge of protecting archaeological sites from threats of looting and vandalism. Whether physically secluded beyond a watchful eye or simply located on private lands with few legal protections, sites in these rural spaces are at particular risk for damage or (un)intentional...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Myriah Allen.

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. <html> The introduction of Spanish horses and other livestock played a pivotal role in the Indigenous ethnogenesis of the Plains Indian Horse Cultures in the 16^th and 17^th centuries. Before Spanish livestock were available, the Southern Plains nomadic tribes moved across this landscape with dog-pulled...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kimberli Fitzgerald. Kirsten Straus. Kylie Pine.

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. Did Salem, Oregon, have a Chinatown during the late 1800s? In this research paper, Kimberli Fitzgerald documents the three-year investigation to answer to this question with her local colleagues Kirsten Straus and Kylie Pine. The author worked with a local advisory...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Tatiana Niculescu. Eleanor Breen.

This is an abstract from the "Storeroom Taphonomies: Site Formation in the Archaeological Archive" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In 1961, the city of Alexandria, Virginia financed one of the first municipally funded archaeological projects in the country, laying the groundwork for today’s Alexandria Archaeology which curates three million artifacts from over 250 sites. Since the 1960s, the program has witnessed urban renewal, the birth of the CRM...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Elizabeth Hoag.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. For the last four summers the Shaker Historical Museum in Shaker Heights, OH, has been sponsoring a community-based archaeological day camp experience for school-aged children. Through excavations at two local historical sites within the city, the participants of our program have learned the importance of archaeology, history, and preservation in their own...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Alejandra Gudino. Ronald Lippi.

This is an abstract from the "Working with the Community in Ecuador" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This presentation attempts to reflect on the dynamic relationship between archeology and communities, based on the 17 years of field experience of the Palmitopamba Archeological Project, in NW Pichincha Providence, Ecuador. The success and challenges of our experience demonstrate the need for a more reflective archeology that aspire to be...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Mark Warner.

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. For the past decade, historical archaeologists at the University of Idaho have been aggressively committed to make archaeology available to communities. On one front, this has meant conducting numerous excavations that were explicitly open to the public for participation. Teh second front has been collections focused. The...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Emma Vance. Danielle Waite.

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. ncouraging the public to invest in resource conservation, education, and exploration is an ongoing priority for the Nevada BLM, Black Rock Field Office. Black Rock Rendezvous (BRR), an annual event hosted on the Black Rock Playa, is one such effort. The event introduces a wide...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Rubén Morales Forte. Maxime Lamoureux-St-Hilaire.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Archaeological endeavors around the world have begun to emphasize ethical project design and community engagement. Several projects in Latin America are adopting Community-Based Participatory Research (CBPR) but the pace of adoption of recommendations from the Indigenous Critique and Black Feminist Anthropology remains slow. Parachute archaeology is still...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Maxime Lamoureux-St-Hilaire. Rubén Morales Forte.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Maya archaeology has always relied on the labor and expertise of field technicians hired from heritage communities across the modern nations of Guatemala, Mexico, Belize, Honduras, and El Salvador. Some of these communities, like Dolores, Guatemala, have been continuously engaged with archaeological projects for several decades, granting its members...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Eric Larsen.

Some archaeologists and other preservationists perceive a growing hostility in conversations about cultural heritage issues. At times it feels as though people are questioning the very foundations of archaeological work. Other times, it seems as though people just think you need to apply the technique they recently saw used on TV or the web (a la the "CSI Effect"). The implications can leave the archaeologists feeling as though the public don’t believe we know what we are doing or that they are...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Pedro Espinoza.

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. "Actores sociales", "comunidad", "arqueología comunitaria", "patrimonio arqueológico" y otros términos que se aplican en la gestión de los sitios arqueológicos muchas veces fluctúan entre la ambigüedad o la relativización, o entre el esencialismo y el paternalismo. Las críticas que se les han hecho se han enfocado en...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Payson Sheets.

This is an abstract from the "Heat, Steam, and Health: The Archaeology of the Mesoamerican Pib Naah (Sweat Baths)" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The ancient Ceren sweat bath was a communal facility of notable sophistication, especially for a commoner village. Household 2 supported its functioning with ollas full of water, pine kindling, and presumably structural maintenance. Loma Caldera’s phreatomagmatic eruption phases, with lava bombs, caused...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Joel Edmondson. Nathan Lawres. Jessica Dees. Andrew Carter.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Foodways provide an important window for us to view important components of cultures, and they provide an important vehicle for engaging a broad audience in an educational way. They are something that we can all relate to because we all participate in them in one way or another. The University of West Georgia’s Interpretive Anthropology Garden is an...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Gwendolyn Kristy.

This is an abstract from the "Collaborative and Community Archaeology" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Wyoming State Historic Preservation Office (WY SHPO) is currently developing their next 10-year statewide preservation plan. Over the course of 2024, numerous community-based efforts were conducted by the Wyoming SHPO, in conjunction with our preservation partners. The purpose of these efforts is to gain insight from the community, in this...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Mark Warner. Katrina Eichner.

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. One of the unacknowledged challenges of decolonizing archaeology is recognizing the external political realities in which some professionals work. Working in a state that has explicitly expressed skepticism about the suitability of anthropology as an appropriate field of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Nancy Mahoney.

This is an abstract from the "Archaeology Education: Building a Research Base" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This paper assesses the present and historical role of outreach and collaboration with collectors in Montana. Understanding the historical context of interactions between professional archaeologists, amateurs, tribes, and the public is an essential foundation for the creation of effective education programs that achieve meaningful...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Nadia Waski.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In the summer of 2023, the Vermont Agency of Transportation (VTrans) contracted with the SWCA Environmental Consultants (SWCA)’s Amherst office to assist the Stockbridge-Munsee Band of Mohican Indians (Tribe) with after-the-fact mitigation activities. The activities were in response to a Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)-funded flood disaster...