Public Agencies and Universities: Partnerships for the Past

Part of: Society for American Archaeology 81st Annual Meeting, Orlando, FL (2016)

Federal, state, tribal, and even municipal agencies have formed partnerships with Anthropology and Archaeological programs at a number of American universities. These partnerships have been mutually beneficial in many ways. The agencies get cost-effective access to faculty expertise, a role in the development of young professionals, and the latest in research technologies and approaches. Universities benefit from new funding streams, practical and challenging research projects, and growth opportunities for both students and faculty. This session will highlight the programs, accomplishments, challenges, and lessons learned from six agency-university partnerships and propose ways they can be improved and expanded.

Other Keywords
Preservation • Archaeology • Cultural Resource Management • CRM • Cultural Resources • Paleoindian • Yellowstone • field schools • heritage • Outreach

Geographic Keywords
North America - Northeast • North America - Great Basin • North America - Plains • North America - Midwest • North America - Mid-Atlantic

Resources Inside This Collection (Viewing 1-7 of 7)

  • Documents (7)
Documents
  • Binghamton University and the NYSDOT: A Focus on Research and Outreach (2016)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Nina Versaggi.

    For over 40 years, the Public Archaeology Facility, Binghamton University (SUNY) has benefited from an uninterrupted relationship with the New York Department of Transportation through projects administered by the NYS Education Department & New York State Museum. This started out as a non-competitive partnership with some SUNY campuses but became a competitive bidding situation about 20 years ago. The underlying principles of the contract call for a research focus that makes archaeological...

  • The Heritage Stewardship Enhancement Program and Research Archaeology on the Dakota Prairie Grasslands, US Forest Service (2016)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Liv Fetterman. Rick Anderson.

    The ongoing partnership between the Dakota Prairie Grasslands (DPG) and Southern Methodist University, supported by the US Forest Service Region 1 Heritage Stewardship Enhancement (HSE) program, is an investigation of the Paleoindian archaeological record of the Little Missouri National Grasslands. As hoped, this collaboration produced vital information about local Paleoindian prehistory. It has also been fruitful in other ways, including a few tough lessons learned along the way. Liv Fetterman...

  • Lessons from the Field: The Intersection of Field Schools and Public Land Management Concerns (2016)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only David Witt. Charles Vandrei. Kristy Primeau.

    The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation manages approximately 4 million acres of state owned land and an additional 910,000 acres through conservation easements with the stated goal “to conserve, improve, and protect New York’s natural resources and environment….” New York state law interprets “environment” broadly, including cultural and historic resources within the concept. Thousands of archaeological sites, ranging from Archaic camps to Revolutionary War battlefields to...

  • Managing, Protecting, and Interpreting Utah Army National Guard Cultural Resources (2016)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Kenneth Cannon. Shaun Nelson. John Crane. James Long.

    Since 2011 USU Archeological Services has assisted the Utah Army National Guard in the management and interpretation of its varied cultural resources. The work was conducted through a Cooperative Agreement between the UTARNG and Utah State University Quinney College of Natural Resources. Initially, USU Archeological Services worked with the UTARNG on data recovery in advance of firing range construction, however the presence of unexploded ordnance required great changes in project scope with...

  • The Montana Yellowstone Archaeological Project (2016)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Douglas MacDonald. Staffan Peterson. Tobin Roop.

    The Montana Yellowstone Archaeological Project (MYAP) is a cooperative effort of the University of Montana (UM), Yellowstone National Park, and the Rocky Mountain Cooperative Ecosystem Study Unit of the National Park Service. Now in its ninth year, the MYAP engages undergraduate and graduate students at every level of cultural resource management projects so they are prepared for careers in the field. In addition, UM facilitates the completion of Yellowstone’s CRM responsibilities in a...

  • Partnering for Preservation: IUP’s Role as a State University (2016)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Phillip Neusius. Ben Ford. Bill Chadwick. Sarah Neusius.

    Since its inception in 1987 as an applied research center at Indiana University of Pennsylvania (IUP), Archaeological Services has had a mission of providing educational opportunities for IUP students and service for private and public entities in cultural resource management. As a state university, IUP has been in a position to create unique partnerships with local, state and federal agencies. These have ranged from co-operative agreements with county and city governments to memoranda of...

  • The PHAST Way: The PennDOT Highway Archaeological Survey Team (2016)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Katherine Peresolak. Joe Baker.

    Since 2010, Indiana University of Pennsylvania (IUP) and the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (PennDOT) have cooperated in the implementation of the PHAST program. PHAST is both a small, in-house transportation archaeology program and a professional development-apprenticeship program. The team is supervised by a PennDOT staff archaeologist and is composed of a graduate student Field Director and student intern field technicians. PHAST is deployed on small to mid-sized highway...