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ANCHOR Program: Promoting Sustainable Diving on our Nation's Underwater Cultural Heritage (2016)
This year, Monitor National Marine Sanctuary introduced a new partnership initiative called the ANCHOR program (representing Appreciating the Nation’s Cultural Heritage and Ocean Resources). ANCHOR was developed with the intent of promoting responsible and sustainable diving on North Carolina’s underwater cultural heritage sites. This program, originally established as the "Blue Star" program by the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary, is meant to form active partnerships with dive operators,...
Annual Report to the State Historic Preservation Office Fiscal Year 2012 (2012)
The protocol between Bureau of Land Management-Alaska (BLM) and the Alaska State Historic Preservation Officer (SHPO) calls for an annual report to provide basic information to the SHPO on the year's cultural resource management activities. This report contains the required information from the BLM's Anchorage Field Office (AFO) for the 2012 federal fiscal year (October 1, 2011 through September 30, 2012). The report is organized alphabetically by quadrangle name, and separates the Section 106...
Archaeological Education and Public Outreach through Social Media (2015)
With the advent of technology and greater access to public lands, archaeological sites are more vulnerable now than ever before. With photos and site locations being shared across the internet, it is pertinent for us as archaeologists to pierce the veil between academics, professionals, and the general public. Visitation to archaeological sites often results in adverse effects including visitor footpaths, touching or climbing on cultural resources, presence of modern trash, and vandalism to the...
Archaeological Investigations at the Wilmington Boulevard, New Castle County, Delaware (1983)
This resource is a citation record only, the Center for Digital Antiquity does not have a copy of this document. The information in this record has been migrated into tDAR from the National Archaeological Database Reports Module (NADB-R) and updated. Most NADB-R records consist of a document citation and other metadata but do not have the documents themselves uploaded. If you have a digital copy of the document and would like to have it curated in tDAR, please contact us at comments@tdar.org.
The Archaeology Education Handbook: Sharing the Past with Kids (2000)
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The Archaeology Education Handbook: Sharing the Past with Kids (2000)
This resource is a citation record only, the Center for Digital Antiquity does not have a copy of this document. The information in this record has been migrated into tDAR from the National Archaeological Database Reports Module (NADB-R) and updated. Most NADB-R records consist of a document citation and other metadata but do not have the documents themselves uploaded. If you have a digital copy of the document and would like to have it curated in tDAR, please contact us at comments@tdar.org.
Archeology and Education: The Classroom and Beyond (1991)
Increasingly archeologists recognize the importance of engaging the public by making archeology more accessible. Like any other archeological endeavor, public education programs require good planning and effective execution. The articles in this volume provide examples that meet both these criteria. They provide background information, advice about logistics, and theoretical, professional, and/or practical justifications for such educational programs. They are assembled to assist others in...
Archeology in the Classroom: a Case Study from Arizona (1989)
There is a growing awareness that public outreach programs are necessary for the continued preservation of archeological resources. The Federal archeological community, through the Interagency Working Group on Public Awareness of Federal Archeology, has identified several goals for a comprehensive public outreach effort. This Technical Brief, which situates archeology in the public schools, and Technical Brief No. 2, which describes the "Take Pride in America" award winning Arizona Archaeology...
Arizona Archaeology Week: Promoting the Past to the Public (1988)
The Federal archeological community has identified a need for an organized and comprehensive public outreach effort at the national level which can provide a framework for regional and local public support for America's archeological resources. The goals of the program are to: (1) foster a feeling of ownership of and responsibility for our common heritage, (2) increase public understanding of the science of archeology, (3) enhance public awareness of the current problem involving archeological...
The Artifacts of Outlander: Using Popular Culture to Promote Maryland’s Archaeological Collections (2016)
The Maryland Archaeological Conservation Laboratory (MAC Lab) is a State-owned facility serving as the primary repository for collections excavated in Maryland. Artifacts come to the MAC Lab from every part of the state, and while the estimated 8.5 million objects in our collections are regularly used by researchers and school groups, our broken bits of "stuff" are less of a draw for the general public. This paper discusses how the MAC Lab staff turned their love of Outlander, a popular...
Assessing and Communicating Natural Disaster Threats with Digital Technologies (2023)
This is an abstract from the session entitled "Recent Directions in Florida’s Historical Archaeology", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Digital archaeology provides a powerful method for communicating the threats associated with natural disasters and sea level rise to the public. Static graphics often fail to capture public imagination, and attention to these issues is increasingly problematic as threats are unnecessarily politicized. Digital archaeology,...
Authenticity—Engaging Your Audiences with Real Experiences: Life Inside The Fishbowl And Other Tales from The North Carolina Maritime Museums’ Queen Anne’s Revenge Demonstration Lab (2020)
This is an abstract from the session entitled "Telling a Tale of One Ship with Two Names: Queen Anne’s Revenge and La Concorde" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Through the installation of a demonstration laboratory at the Beaufort North Carolina Maritime Museum, the North Carolina Maritime Museum System and the Queen Anne’s Revenge Project have worked together to increase the educational impact of the Queen Anne’s Revenge (QAR) exhibit. The introduction...
Balancing Acts: Public Access and Archaeology in the Cape Fear Civil War Shipwreck District (2015)
During the American Civil War, Wilmington, North Carolina served as an important blockade-running center for the Confederacy. The Cape Fear region’s high traffic and dangerous shoals resulted in the largest concentration of Civil War shipwrecks in the world. The interpretation of these wrecks for public outreach constitutes a valuable opportunity to educate members of the public using a material culture assemblage connected with the historical framework of the Wilmington blockade. This paper...
Beyond the Technical Report: Building public Outreach into Compliance-Driven Projects, A Case Study from Sandpoint Idaho (2016)
From 2005 to 2008 archaeologists conducted the largest excavation in the state of Idaho's history in the small north Idaho town of Sandpoint. The excavations were a prelude to the construction of a byway through the city's former historic core by Idaho's Department of Transportation. Despite not being able to conduct a public program during the excavations, project archaeologists were subequently able to create a number of outcomes derived directly from the excavations that were ultimately...
Bringing Archaeology to You: Insights from the Roving Exhibit and Archeology Laboratory (2023)
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. One of the most important aspects of the National Park Service is to preserve the “cultural resources and values of the National Park System for the enjoyment, education, and inspiration of this and future generations.” However, cultural resources—including archaeological sites—are often inaccessible to the public. In...
Bullseye Articles 2000-2005 (2005)
Article in the Nellis AFB newspaper Bullseye, highlighting conservation on site.
California Public Education and the Mexican Ranchos - Looking Beyond 4th Grade (2017)
The Mexican Ranchos of the 18th and 19th centuries represent a niche in California history which is not often well understood by students of any age. From elementary school education to popular media, the focus in California tends to be on either the precontact Native Americans or the Spanish Missions. The Ranchos are host to a pluralistic community, including laborers, visitors, traders, owners, and overseers. Fairly representing these multiple voices can be difficult, but by presenting diverse...
Celebrating the National Historic Preservation Act: The Making Archaeology Public Project (2016)
Over the last fifty years, a great deal of archaeological research has come about due to the passage of the National Historic Preservation Act. The Society for Historical Archaeology, the Society for American Archaeology, and the Register of Professional Archaeologists– in partnership with the American Cultural Resources Association and the Archaeological Legacy Institute (home of The Archaeology Channel) are supporting a nationwide initiative to highlight some of the important things we have...
Clovis Points, Trade Beads, and Everything in Between: Collections at the University of Wyoming Archaeological Repository (2016)
This poster details the archaeological collections housed at the University of Wyoming Archaeological Repository (UWAR) located in Laramie. The repository houses approximately 3 million artifacts from 15,000 different Wyoming sites as well as comparative, replica, experimental, and educational materials. We highlight our extensive suite of artifacts from across the state, which includes artifacts from all time periods from the Paleoindian to the Historic. Many of these objects are submitted...
Communicating the Results of Submerged Paleolandscapes Research (2024)
This is an abstract from the session entitled "Exploration-Forward Archaeology Through Community-Driven Research", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. As part of a NOAA OER grant funded project, the authors of this paper acquired geophysical and geotechnical data over multiple submerged and buried paleolandscape features in the Northwestern Gulf of Mexico. The project resulted in the acquisition of over 1,200-line kilometers of sub-bottom data (including both...
A Community Approach to Data Recovery Investigations at the Dimond Knoll Site, Harris County, Texas (2015)
The Dimond Knoll Screening Project has been one of the most successful Public Outreach efforts undertaken to date by the Texas Department of Transportation’s Archeological Studies Branch. Excavation of this small floodplain mound in northwestern Harris County was completed 2012, revealing a record of regular visitation by mobile foraging groups across nearly ten millennia. Once the upper sediments of the knoll were extensively sampled through meticulous hand excavation, the remaining sandy...
Coopers, Peddlers, and Bricklayers: Stories of a Working-Class Property through Public Archaeology in Washington, DC (2018)
An archaeological investigation of a lot where a former frame shotgun house once stood offers a unique look at 19th century working-class immigrant households. A German immigrant carpenter built the house before 1853 and it was successively occupied by a peddler, cooper, and bricklayer; little is known about their lives. Prior to redevelopment, the DC HPO Archaeology Program conducted a systematic archaeological survey from August 2016 to May 2017, the "Shotgun House Public Archaeology Project"....
CRM and Public Outreach: A Match Made in NHPA (2021)
This is an abstract from the ""Is There Gold in that Field?" CRM and Public Outreach on the Front Lines" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Why shouldn't cultural resource management (CRM) companies be involved in public outreach and education outside of regulatory mandates? Archaeologists are ambassadors of the discipline by nature, giving responsible access to shared history with other disciplines and members of the public as well as engaging with...
Cultural Resources Public Outreach and Interpretation Source Book (Legacy 10-127)
This project created a guide that collects existing standards, guidance, and best practices on cultural resources interpretation and public outreach and examples of interpretation and public outreach projects. This project developed an evaluation rubric for comparing effectiveness of diverse project types and used that data to develop a source book of best examples and guidance to help DoD components and installations to develop their own creative cultural resources interpretation and public...