Public and Community Archaeology (Other Keyword)

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Building a Case for Resilience: A Call to Action (2024)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Sara Ayers-Rigsby. Jeff Ransom. Malachi Fenn.

This is an abstract from the "*SE Hope for the Future: A Message of Resiliency from Archaeological Sites in South Florida" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. South Florida contains a vast record of over 10,000 years of human occupation. The archaeological timeline of the area has the capability to demonstrate human adaptation to rapid climate change in the past during the transition from the Younger Dryas to the Holocene. As archaeologists, we have a...


Building a Façade: When Political Involvement Changes the Narrative, Fabric, and Value of Historic Sites (2019)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Kasey Diserens Morgan.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This paper explores the ways in which local government involvement in the restoration of historic structures and archaeological sites can change the ways in which they are valued and used by local communities. How do opinions surrounding heritage change when people are confronted with differing actors imposing differing values on historic properties? How do...


Building Societies of Knowledge (2018)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Erika Robrahn-Gonzalez.

This paper aims to analyze the implementation of integrative project designs developed with local communities in Brazil, in a bottom-up strategy. The objective is deliver relevant outcomes and outputs to society incorporating local social values to the process. This strategy is also aligned to the development of UNESCO’s Sustainability Science goals, from which archeology cannot be isolated. It considers the development of Cultural Environment Projects, where archeology research has more...


California Archaeological Site Stewardship Program (CASSP) (2023)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Beth Padon.

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. There are many ways to organize and administer site stewardship. We highlight some characteristics of California site stewardship and we discuss why they matter. CASSP is provided by Partners for Archaeological Site Stewardship, a private, nonprofit organization. Because CASSP is not a...


A Case Study in the Use of Photogrammetry for Management, Public Outreach, and Research Potential (2019)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Adesbah Foguth.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Photogrammetry has become increasingly relevant in the field of archaeology as digital software becomes more accessible, with the increased ease in which archaeological sites can be recorded three-dimensionally, and with the ease in which it can be added to regular field work with minimal monetary costs or time. Despite current interest in 3D technology, the...


The Castles in Communities Model: An Integrative Approach to a Field School, Research Project and Community Collaborative in Ireland (2019)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Kathryn Maurer. Niall Brady. Samuel Connell. Daniel Cearley. Ana Lucia Gonzalez.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Castles in Communities: Medieval Ireland Past to Present (CIC) is a multi-year project in Ballintober, County Roscommon, Ireland, with a trifold identity of an archaeological and anthropological field school, a research project focused on medieval Ireland, and a community collaborative focused on heritage preservation and celebration. The underlying premise of...


Charting Science Communication with Geoarchaeology (2024)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Jordan Chapman.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Science communication can be a daunting task for researchers who seek public engagement, especially through multimedia formats. Building from your knowledge, experience, and research will make developing multimedia skills more approachable. Creatively including scientific principles to develop aspects like storytelling and in-media citations helps to...


Citizen Science Archaeology at Bodie State Historic Park (2018)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Nicola Lercari. Denise Jaffke. Jad Aboulhosn. Graham Baird. Anaïs Guillem.

Bodie State Historic Park is located in the western Great Basin, near the California and Nevada border and encompasses a 2,900-acre historical landscape comprised of buildings, archaeological sites, and features related to 80 years of Gold Rush era mining. Cultural and natural resources at Bodie are at risk of being lost due to wildfires, earthquakes, and lack of funding. Discussing the application of digital heritage methods in the Bodie 3D Project, this paper focuses on community-engaged...


City of Miami’s Historic Preservation Challenges: Sea-Level Rise and Coastal Real Estate Trends (2023)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Adrian Espinosa-Valdor.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The inevitable rise in sea level has drawn the City of Miami into the focus of many studies aimed at understanding future impacts on coastal cityscapes. Local archaeological organizations and professionals are interested in understanding the impact that climate change will eventually have on the region’s archaeological landscape. Miami’s most incredible...


Civil Rights Heritage Preservation and the Malcolm X House: Archaeology in the Service of a Grassroots Movement (2023)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Krysta Ryzewski. Tareq Ramadan. Aaron Sims.

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. An unassuming 800-square-foot home in working-class Inkster, Michigan, was, in some sense, the birthplace of Civil Rights leader Malcolm X in 1952. While living there he changed his name from Malcolm Little to Malcolm X and assumed the leadership roles in the Nation of Islam that...


Climate Change in Coastal Ecuador (2021)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Sara Ayers-Rigsby. Victoria Dominguez. Valentina Martinez.

This is an abstract from the "Recent Innovations in Ecuadorian Archaeology" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Climate change is negatively impacting cultural heritage and archaeological sites worldwide. The site of Balsamaragua, which signifies 2,500 years of human occupation on the coast, is rapidly deteriorating, having lost 10 m of shoreline since 2009. Increased awareness and documentation at the site can help us glean valuable information about...


Close to Home: Public and Institutional Archaeology in the University Setting (2023)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Émilie Blondin. Lindsey Bouldin. Sarah Faber. Cindy Tian. Grace Motes.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. During the fall of 2021, a group of 13 students, a graduate teaching assistant, and two professors continued the years-long excavations and credit-offered course of the Harvard Yard Archaeology Project, which takes place amongst one of the busiest tourist attractions and academic centers of Boston. A primary goal of the 2021 field season was to further...


Co-creating Knowledge about Iowa Sites and Increasing Awareness of Iowa's Descendant Tribes through Community-Engaged Archaeology (2024)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Elizabeth Reetz.

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. In June 2023, the University of Iowa Office of the State Archaeologist (OSA) completed a year-long project for the University of Iowa (UI) Community Engaged Scholars Program in collaboration with the Elgin Historical Society & Museum (EHS) and Meskwaki Nation. The partners aimed to share knowledge about archaeological and historical sites...


Collaborative and Community Archaeology: Introduction and Some Case Studies (2021)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Kevin Nolan. Charles Bello.

This is an abstract from the "Collaborative and Community Archaeology" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Collaborative and Community Engaged Scholarship (CES) continues to be an important topic in our profession, encompassing a growing diversity of activities. This session displays a commitment to the concept of conducting research and historic preservation in effective partnership with a wide spectrum of stakeholders as a matter of fairness, ethics,...


Collaborative Archaeological Research in Central America: A View from the Community of Mogue, Pusa Drua Area, Congreso Local de Tierras Colectivas Emberá Wounaan, Darién, Panama (2024)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Lucy Gill. Natalia Donner.

This is an abstract from the "Centralizing Central America: New Evidence, Fresh Perspectives, and Working on New Paradigms" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Over the past three decades, archaeologists and Indigenous communities throughout the Americas have developed varied approaches to collaborative archaeological research. In North America, where there is some legislative recognition of Indigenous sovereignty over cultural heritage, such...


Collaborative Research as an Adaptive Strategy among New England Archaeologists (2018)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Richard Boisvert.

NH SCRAP (State Conservation and Rescue Archaeology Program) was created in 1978 principally to train and certify the general public in the conduct of archaeology in New Hampshire. While engagement in fieldwork draws many volunteers, generates substantial recognition, and serves to promote archaeology well beyond the borders of the state - analysis and publication have always been integral parts of the program. Outreach to undergraduate students, graduate students, and avocational archaeologists...


Community Archaeology and (Post)Colonial Identities in Northernmost Belize (2019)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Zachary Nissen.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This paper investigates the "who/what" that constitutes "the local community" in engaged community archaeologies. It will do so by discussing community events organized by the Aventura Archaeology Project, as well as preliminary ethnographic and oral historical work I have conducted in the San Joaquin Village and Corozal Town areas of northernmost Belize. This...


Community Archaeology and the Production of Space at Punta Laguna, Yucatan, Mexico (2019)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Sarah Kurnick.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Archaeologists have considered the relationships between the production of space and the production of social inequality in past societies. Those practicing community and other forms of engaged archaeology have also examined the relationships between the production of space and inequality in the present, including at archaeological sites developed for tourism....


Community Archaeology at Magic Mountain, Golden, Colorado (2019)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Michele Koons. Mark Mitchell.

This is an abstract from the "Collaborative and Community-Based Archaeology" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Nestled in the foothills along Apex Gulch in Golden, CO, Magic Mountain is proclaimed to be one of the most important archaeological sites on Colorado’s Front Range. The earliest artifacts date back to 5000 BCE, when the site would have served as camping grounds for mobile hunter-gatherer groups. Later remains, such as ceramics and stone...


Community Archaeology in Belize (2024)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Cynthia Robin. Antonio Beardall. Cynthia Ellis-Topsey. Anabel Ford.

This is an abstract from the "“The Center and the Edge”: How the Archaeology of Belize Is Foundational for Understanding the Ancient Maya, Part II" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This paper examines community archaeology in Belize: its recent history and contemporary practice. Community archaeology, following the work of Sonya Atalay, is archaeology done “with, by, and for” Indigenous and local communities. It produces an archaeology that is...


Community Archaeology in Coastal Ecuador: Balancing Interests (2019)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Florencio Delgado Espinoza. Josefina Vasquez.

This is an abstract from the "Working with the Community in Ecuador" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. More than 20 years ago, research in Agua Blanca, Manabí, changed the way in which archaeology in Ecuador was performed. Local community involvement in archaeology research took an active role. Since then, both Indigenous and peasant communities have called upon archaeologists that can collaborate with them on studying the past they consider as...


Community Archaeology in Practice: Great Bay Archaeological Survey (2019)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Emily Mierswa. Meghan Howey.

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 three years, the Great Bay Archaeological Survey has excavated frontier contact period (1620-1750 AD) garrisons within the Oyster River watershed. These early reinforced New Hampshire homesteads are rare finds in New England archaeology. The success of this research relies on treating community volunteers as equal contributors. Archaeologists...


Community Archaeology in the Jemez (2024)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Emma LaMartina. Isobel Coats.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Over four weeks in the early summer of 2023, a community-based archaeological project was conducted to re-record Whan·hang·kya·nu Pueblo in fulfillment of a Masters project in Public Archaeology at the University of New Mexico. Whan·hang·kya·nu Pueblo is a prehistoric site located in the Jemez District of Santa Fe National Forest and has been continuously...


Community Engaged Bioarchaeology: Decolonizing Research (2024)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Pamela Stone.

This is an abstract from the "Community Engaged Bioarchaeology: Centering Descendants" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Bioarchaeology as a field of inquiry aims to bring forward the life histories of individuals through the analysis of skeletal markers of disease, trauma, and activities, at the individual and population level to better understand the experiences and identities of people that came before. A recent and important shift in the...


Community Engaged Scholarship and the Oklahoma Public Archaeology Network (2023)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Bonnie Pitblado. Delaney Cooley. Horvey Palacios. Bobi Deere. Kaylyn Moore.

This is an abstract from the "Collaborative and Community Archaeology" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Oklahoma Public Archaeology Network (OKPAN), founded in 2016, recently engaged in strategic planning that has helped streamline our programs and increase the breadth of our community engagement. In our paper, we highlight two initiatives that have proved particularly effective at empowering communities that have traditionally been excluded...