Pandemic Fieldwork: Doing Fieldwork During a Pandemic

This collection contains the abstracts of the papers presented in the session entitled "Pandemic Fieldwork: Doing Fieldwork During a Pandemic," at the 2021 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology.

The year began with a successful conference in Boston, but quickly turned as the globe was thrown into the grips of a pandemic by March. As universities, cities, states, and countries began to close and lock down, so did many field schools and excavations. However, not all archaeology has stopped. Construction projects have continued as have archaeological monitoring and construction mitigation data recovery excavations. Places have begun to reopen, so have some archaeological projects. As the world struggles to find a new normal, archaeology has adapted. This symposium discusses both novel and reworked methodological approaches for conducting, or attempting to conduct, archeological fieldwork during a global pandemic.