Public and Community Archaeology (Other Keyword)

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...

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...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Eric Schroeder.

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 Paint Rock Project is a Native American collaborative research project that centers on the conservation of Native American heritage and culture facilitated by the Campbell Family, tribal elders, and researchers from Abilene Christian University and the Edwards Plateau Archaeological Research Group. Situated within the...

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...

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....

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Elizabeth Minor. Sarah Schellinger. Christopher Sevara. Hannah Herrick. Ahmed El-Hassan (Sokhari).

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The community archaeology project at the Kerma settlement site of Es-Selim R4 (ESR4) seeks to investigate how environmental, social, and political change intersect to affect a provincial population center over 1000 years. The site is located in the Northern Dongola Reach, where the floodplain was braided with Nile palaeochannels, supporting a network of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Moira Peckham. Annie Danis.

This poster presents how the Berkeley Abiquiú Collaborative Archaeology project integrates oral histories conducted with community members with spatial and material data to support a more robust dialogue between the contemporary and the historic that is thoroughly grounded in community perspectives. At Abiquiú, the community’s perspectives on water management as presented through the interviews and, subsequently, the material and spatial data are intimately connected to not only identity, but...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Melissa Ayling.

This is an abstract from the "Experimental Pedagogies: Teaching through Experimental Archaeology Part II" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Experimental archaeology is an extremely beneficial method of inquiry, as it centralizes the physical knowledge of material culture and sensory experiences. While experimental archaeology brings researchers closer to the realities of creating and using material culture, ethnoarchaeology reconnects researchers...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Abigail Antinossi.

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. There’s a lot going on in Texas Archaeology, some of which includes new ways of teaching, learning, and engaging. At Rice University, undergraduate students excavate at plantation sites in Brazoria County alongside descendants of those who were once enslaved in these same spaces, working in partnership with local museum and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only June Weber. M. Anne Dorland. Benjamin Hoksbergen. Stefanie Perez. Jenna Tran.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. New South Associates (NSA) conducted a Phase III Archaeological Data Recovery of the Fennell Plantation (Site 1MA840) on Redstone Arsenal (RSA) in Madison County, Alabama. The site occupation spans nearly 100 years (1843-1942) and records the transition from enslavement to Black landownership in North Alabama. Data recovery efforts involved a...

DOCUMENT Citation Only John Doershuk.

This is an abstract from the "Collaborative and Community Archaeology" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Wayne County is a relatively remote and lower population density (96th of 99) rural county in Iowa but features the vibrant and well-managed Prairie Trails Museum that enjoys strong community support. A 2022 discovery by an area resident of a complete and surprisingly well-preserved mastodon femur in a drainage in the southwest part of the county...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Crystal Castleberry.

This is an abstract from the "Individuals Known and Unknown: Case Studies from Two Burial Contexts at Colonial Williamsburg" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. As an institution that has contributed to the Black community's historical erasure, Colonial Williamsburg is still working to rebuild trust and right many wrongs. Few projects have made that more apparent than the First Baptist Church excavation and the rediscovery of its burial ground. With...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Megan Kassabaum. Arielle Pierson. Erin Spicola.

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. Native American mound sites and their inhabitants are often misunderstood by local communities and are severely underrepresented in educational curricula despite being a primary research focus for North American archaeologists. These monuments stand as testament to the creativity and skill of their builders and provide...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Elizabeth Horton. Jen Harrington. Dean Nicolai.

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. This poster highlights the unique partnerships between the Archeology Program, Yellowstone National Park, and the Native American Natural Resource Program, University of Montana, Missoula, and the Native American Studies Department, Salish Kootenai College. Consisting of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Ramón Santacruz. Aurelio López Corral.

This is an abstract from the "Archaeology and Material Culture of the Spanish Invasion of Mesoamerica and Forging of New Spain" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. El periodo que corresponde a la conquista, establecimiento e imposición del orden español en México, de 1519 a 1821, se caracterizó por la colisión cultural entre poblaciones nativas y colonizadores europeos. En ese contexto, este trabajo analiza a los artefactos de manufactura...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Lisa Young. Micah Loma’omvaya. Susan Sekaquaptewa. Gwen Setalla.

For over a century, Homol’ovi has been a place where Hopi people and archaeologists interacted and learned from each other. The creation of the Homolovi State Park and the Homol’ovi Research Project provided opportunities for collaboration. In this paper, we reflect on these changing interactions and their impact. A corn roasting pit that was built a decade ago provides important insights into ways to maintain relationships after the fieldwork component of research projects has ended.

DOCUMENT Citation Only Daiana Rivas-Tello.

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. In 2012, the Peruvian Ministry of Culture designated pottery from the town of Huancas (Amazonas, Peru) as Cultural Patrimony, celebrating the longevity of this crafting tradition that potters have maintained since the Late Horizon period (ca. 1470–1535). Due to the rise of tourism in Amazonas, interest in local...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Alicia Torres Porras. Leobardo Pacheco Arias. Jesús Sánchez Jacobo.

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. During the last four years, in the UNESCO World Heritage Site: Prehistoric Caves in the Central Valleys of Oaxaca, effective relationships have been strengthened and created between the ejido commissary and the cultural managers of the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH). Through constructive dialogue, knowledge sharing,...