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DOCUMENT Citation Only Alice W Merkel.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Remote Archaeology: Taking Archaeology Online in the Wake of COVID-19" , at the 2021 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In response to the 2020 COVID-19 global pandemic, Jefferson Patterson Park and Museum in Southern Maryland saw a dramatic shift towards digital content creation as a method of engaging the public. This shift was a dramatic one for small museums like ours- that hold educational programs, in-person tours and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Andrew J Robinson.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Pandemic Fieldwork: Doing Fieldwork During a Pandemic" , at the 2021 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The year began with a successful conference in Boston, but quickly turned as the globe was thrown into the grips of a pandemic by March. As universities, cities, states, and countries began to close and lock down, so did many field schools and excavations. However, not all archaeology has stopped. Construction projects...