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DOCUMENT Citation Only Elisabeth Rareshide.

Not all legacy collections are forgotten in dusty boxes. Some find new life in public education, offering non-archaeologists tangible connections to the past. Integrating legacy artifact and document collections with effective education techniques provides the opportunity to engage children and adults in archaeology. Through the case study of developing an interactive educational tour about pre-Contact Chumash at the Leonis Adobe Museum in Calabasas, this paper explores practical concerns...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Theresa McReynolds Shebalin.

Archaeologists committed to public outreach are typically motivated by the hope that helping individuals appreciate how archaeology contributes to understanding the past will in turn encourage citizen stewardship of the archaeological record. Archaeologists working with children in particular have the best chance of making an impact in this area since their audiences can in turn act upon and help spread messages of site preservation and other matters of archaeological ethics for many years to...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Peter B. Campbell.

The Internet is a public outreach tool and integral part of developing research collaborations. Unfortunately, the Internet is inundated with pseudo-archaeology and treasure hunters discussing underwater cultural heritage. These websites turn up alongside professional websites in search engine results, making it difficult to locate reliable information. Traditionally, archaeologists have built websites independently of each other with the result of many professional websites having poor search...

IMAGE Barbara Cook. Victoria Hawley. Jessica Hughes.

Photographs from 2008, 2009, and 2010 Media Days at the site of Fort St. Joseph during which the press and members of the Western Michigan University and Niles communities and other involved parties were invited to experience talks and tours prior to the opening of the site to the public for the annual Archaeology Open House.

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jammi Ladwig.

The very word “archaeology” conjures interest by the public generally. Finding meaningful ways to engage that interest, however, is less straight-forward for practitioners, educators, and researchers. Sitting within any given repository of archaeological materials are collections in need of additional documentation and analysis, some of which may have not been handled since the time of their initial excavation and curation. Additionally, while much can be learned through microbotanical...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Bryandra M. Owen.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "(Re)Presenting the Past: Archaeological Influences on Historical Narratives in Video Games" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In the 2018 video game, Red Dead Redemption 2, gamers continued their ventures in the fictional late 19th Century – early 20th Century American West first created by Rockstar Games in 2010. While dealing with a fictional version of the United States, the game makes an effort to include...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Sara Ayers-Rigsby. Rachael Kangas. Malachi Fenn. Victoria Lincoln. Micheline Hilpert.

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. The Florida Public Archaeology Network's Southeast and Southwest Regions are located in a global COVID-19 hotspot. As schools, library programs, and summer camps were cancelled due to the accelerated progress of the disease through Miami and other cities, the authors sought to engage children remotely...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Rachael Kangas.

Public archaeology in southwest Florida comes with unique challenges and opportunities. The dominant population for the Florida Public Archaeology Network’s Southwest Region consists largely of retired wealthy white citizens, many of who call southwest Florida home year-round, others who flock here during the winter months. While this group dominates the region in terms of population, there is a significant part of the public who identify with one or more minority groups. FPAN Southwest is...

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Nellis AFB produces a yearly calendar featuring archaeological sites on site.

DOCUMENT Citation Only Ruth Trocolli. Josh Silver.

Heritage Placemaking is a thing - embrace it! Learn from our mistakes. The DC Office of Planning received a grant from the Kresge Foundation to engage in creative placemaking by artist/curators with the goal of activating underused public spaces. The DC Archaeology Program saw this as an opportunity to engage in a novel form of public outreach funded by someone else. Despite best intentions, false starts, permitting issues, need for cultural sensitivity, and last-minute directives, the...

IMAGE Donna Ochenrydeb. Barbara Cook. John Lacko. Stephanie Barrante. Victoria Hawley. Jessica Hughes.

Photographs from the 2004, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, and 2010 Archaeology Open Houses at the site of Fort St. Joseph. Since 2004, the Fort St. Joseph Archaeology Open House has been the culmination of Western Michigan University's field school, and the showpiece of its public education and outreach initiative. Free of charge, the public is invited to view ongoing excavations and to interact with the student archaeologists. To assist with interpreting the archaeology, past open houses have offered...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Matthew Piscitelli.

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. This is a call to action for CRM professionals and archaeologists more broadly. In a world of viral tweets and social media influencers, the past is getting swept under the rug. Our work is regulated to gray literature, a checked box before breaking ground. Nevertheless, our efforts reveal powerful human stories...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Emily Schwalbe. Anna Funke.

This is an abstract from the "Technology in Terrestrial and Underwater Archaeology" session, at the 2019 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In 2016, the small, regional Berkeley County Museum and Heritage Center approached the Warren Lasch Conservation Center about the possibility of conserving a Revolutionary War cannon recovered from a marine environment on Lewisville Plantation in the 1980’s. Unfortunately, the cannon had not been desalinated post-recovery, and the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only John H. Jameson, Jr..

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DOCUMENT Citation Only Maureen J Brown. Charles A Harrison.

Cultural heritage has been presented to the public in a variety of traditional and engaging formats from heritage and archaeological fairs, museum exhibits, movies, plays, school curriculum, conferences, merit badge programs, books, etc.,--- and through artwork. With the preparations and events leading up to San Antonio’s big 300th celebration of the founding in 2018, the recent designation of our five San Antonio Missions as a UNESCO World Heritage Site, the archaeology-artist team present an...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Barbara Hines.

The Florida Public Archaeology Network is tasked with educating Florida's public about the state's rich archaeological heritage. One method that has been used to do so is what we call "Public Archaeology Days". These days mainly consist of identifying artifacts that the public has legally collected on private land, usually their own backyards or farms. There has been much debate surrounding this method of public outreach and much discussion on how to properly host these events. Often we partner...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Susan Chandler.

Cultural resource companies are increasingly tasked with disseminating the results of their archaeological research to the public. Because the nature of the archaeological record differs for each compliance project and because there are many different "publics" who can be identified, archaeologists have taken several different approaches to public outreach. In the last decade, Alpine Archaeological Consultants, Inc. has created a variety of public outreach products that describe what was...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Courtney E Page.

The North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural Resources encourages its facilities to engage the public of North Carolina in history and cultural heritage through education and outreach programs. The Queen Anne’s Revenge Conservation Lab is tasked with investigating, documenting, and preserving the remains of Blackbeard’s flagship, and as a member of the Department strives to provide opportunities for active learning within the local community and beyond. With limited resources and no...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Beverly A. Chiarulli. Nancy Smith. marion smeltzer.

Five National Park Service units located in Western Pennsylvania present the history of the region from the days of George Washington through the 18th century industrial period to even more recent events.  From 1999 through 2009, a partnership between the NPS and Indiana University of Pennsylvania provided opportunities for students to gain field and lab experience working on NPS projects and conducting research for MA Thesis projects.  These opportunities provided the students with needed...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Christopher Espenshade.

Avocational detectorists are one segment of the public that offers great opportunities and challenges for public outreach. It has become increasingly clear that not all laypersons with a metal detector are the same, and that past and ongoing vilification of "relic hunters" is not always appropriate. The class, Archaeological Partnership Program, is introduced. This class teaches avocational detectorists how they can contribute to professional archaeological research, and hopes to help bridge...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Peggy Brunache.

The process of globalization and migration of Africans and African descent communities has made soul food and other African diasporic foodways very popular in Britain. The mass consumption of music and movies, and even fast food that celebrate these culinary traditions is creating a false sense of historical and culture knowledge. Furthermore, archaeology that centers on the legacy of transatlantic slave trade is still a highly marginalized area of study in British academia. Thus, an...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Stacy L Bumback.

A diverse team of spotters and archaeologists were assembled to assist Snohomish County with the site stabilization efforts following the massive landslide that occured March 2014 in Oso, Washington.  This three month project focused on the recovery of human remains and personal items from the 300,000 cubic yards of search and rescue piles that were created during search and recovery immediately following the slide. The community was intimately involved in every aspect of the project and their...

DOCUMENT Citation Only cassandra michaud.

Long overshadowed by and conflated with the fictional story of Uncle Tom's Cabin, the life of Josiah Henson is revisited at the location he was enslaved in suburban Maryland.  Archaeological research on the former plantation has uncovered traces of life on the farm and the 19th century landscape.  This work provides part of the framework for the design of a public museum to be built at the park, dedicated to Henson's life and slavery in Montgomery County.  This paper will discuss the ongoing...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Laura Phillips.

This is an abstract from the "Outreach and Education: Examples of Approaches and Strategies from the Pacific Northwest" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In October 2019, the Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture on the UW campus in Seattle reopened to the public in its new home, with an “inside-out” approach that invites audiences to visibly connect more deeply with the life of the museum. Galleries sit side-by-side with visible collection...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Rachel Vara. Whitney Lytle.

The positive impact of public outreach and education to the preservation of archaeological resources has become increasingly apparent to professionals within the field. Outreach programs not only help disseminate the knowledge gained from excavations and research but also how the public can play active roles ensuring this knowledge is not lost. Making archaeology accessible to those outside the field strengthens our ability to neutralize the mass of misinformation found in the media. The...