Archaeology Non-Profits and Community Programs: The Struggle to Keep Archaeology Important in the Eyes of the Public

Part of: Society for Historical Archaeology 2019

This collection contains the abstracts of the papers presented in the session entitled "Archaeology Non-Profits and Community Programs: The Struggle to Keep Archaeology Important in the Eyes of the Public," at the 2019 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology.

Community outreach and education is an often overlooked area in the field of archaeology. While cultural resource management and academic archaeology produce large amounts of raw and interpretive data, the dissemination of that data to the public is often over looked. The role of community archaeology organizations and programs are vital to the field as a way to increase public interest and recruit future generations of archaeologists. This panel includes representatives from community archaeology organizations and public outreach programs from across the country with purpose of discussing the importance of community based archaeology and archaeology educations programs.

Other Keywords
community archaeology • activism • Outreach • non-profits

Geographic Keywords
Coahuila (State / Territory) • New Mexico (State / Territory) • Oklahoma (State / Territory) • Arizona (State / Territory) • Texas (State / Territory) • Sonora (State / Territory) • United States of America (Country) • Chihuahua (State / Territory) • Nuevo Leon (State / Territory) • Delaware (State / Territory)

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  • Archaeology Non-Profits and Community Programs: The Struggle to Keep Archaeology Important in the Eyes of the Public (2019)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Alexandra Jones.

    This is an abstract from the "Archaeology Non-Profits and Community Programs: The Struggle to Keep Archaeology Important in the Eyes of the Public" session, at the 2019 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Community outreach and education is an often overlooked area in the field of archaeology. While cultural resource management and academic archaeology produce large amounts of raw and interpretive data, the dissemination of that data to the public is often over looked....