Community Archaeology in 2020: Conventional or Revolutionary?

Part of: Society for Historical Archaeology 2020

This collection contains the abstracts of the papers presented in the session entitled "Community Archaeology in 2020: Conventional or Revolutionary?," at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology.

Community archaeology has grown significantly since the 1990s as archaeologists increasingly seek to integrate local communities and other stakeholders within archaeological projects and interpretations; however, the definition of community archaeology was heavily debated in the first decade of the 2000s. Central to this debate were questions about who constituted a community, the role archaeologists should play, and what the relationship between community archaeology and decolonizing practice should be.

In this symposium, we aim to consider the role of community approaches within historical archaeology at the dawn of a new decade. Does community-engaged scholarship remain an outlier or might contemporary research projects suggest a shift within historical archaeological practice? Papers in this session discuss current theoretical perspectives within community archaeology, broadly defined, as well as recent or ongoing case studies that exemplify practical applications within the field today.

Other Keywords
Community • Public Archaeology • African Diaspora Archaeology • Plantation Archaeology • Native American • Preservation • Impact • African-American • Interview • Archival

Temporal Keywords
19th-20th Century • 19th Century • 19th and 20th centuries • 17th century-21st century • 1800s-1900s • 1854-present • 18th and 19th C. • Late eighteenth century to present • 1700-present • 18th-21st century

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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Documents
  1. The Ancestors Speak: Community-Based Paleogenomics (2020)
  2. Archaeologists In Parks (2020)
  3. The Best and Worst of Times: Bridging Stakeholders, Archaeologists, and Students to Craft Community Archaeology at the Robert H. Jackson Farmstead, Spring Creek, PA. (2020)
  4. Critical Public Archaeology as Social Change: Five Years of Public Outreach at the Anthracite Heritage Program (2020)
  5. "It’s not about us": Exploring Race, Community, and Commemoration at the "Angela Site" on Jamestown Island, Virginia. (2020)
  6. Mapping Maroon Territory: Implications for Amazonian Archaeology (2020)
  7. Mapping Memories and Digging the Past in Freetown (2020)
  8. "Mo té la": Community-Engaged Plantation Archaeology in French Guiana (2020)
  9. Moving the Baseline: Why Isn’t Community Archaeology the Convention? (2020)
  10. Revolution or Fad: Perspectives on Community Engagement in Archaeology (2020)
  11. Starting Slow: Community informed background research on Oak Bluffs, Massachusetts (2020)
  12. Stories That Can Heal Us: Afrodecolonial Perspectives and Community-based Approaches to Archaeology in French Guiana (2020)
  13. To What End? Assessing the Impact of Public Archaeology in a Campaign Against Gentrification (2020)
  14. Transformative Placemaking: The Intersection of Art, Archaeology, and the Community in Freedom City (2020)