Pandemic Fieldwork: Doing Fieldwork During a Pandemic
Part of: Society for Historical Archaeology 2021
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.
Site Name Keywords
Michilimackinac
Site Type Keywords
Fort
Other Keywords
pandemic •
Data Recovery •
Urban Archaeology •
Fieldwork •
Michilimackinac •
Urban Renewal •
Memorialization •
Contamination •
ancient DNA •
Contemporary Archaeology
Culture Keywords
Historic •
Euroamerican
Investigation Types
Data Recovery / Excavation •
Methodology, Theory, or Synthesis
Geographic Keywords
Norway •
Midwest •
Kingdom of Sweden (Country) •
Kingdom of Norway (Country) •
Great Lakes •
Russia •
Mid-Atlantic •
Europe (Continent) •
Republic of Estonia (Country) •
Republic of Finland (Country)
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Ancient DNA Research during a Global Pandemic: Insights from Fieldwork at St. Mary’s Basilica in Norfolk, VA (2021)
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This is an abstract from the session entitled "Pandemic Fieldwork: Doing Fieldwork During a Pandemic" , at the 2021 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. DNA sampling from human remains is becoming a common practice in archeological studies, as genetic data provide important insights into ancestry and kinship in burial settings. To ensure the authenticity of ancient DNA results, contamination of human remains with DNA from living people must be minimized. Here, we describe...
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"Hold Avstand": The Archaeology of and in the COVID-19 Pandemic in Tromsø, Norway (2021)
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This is an abstract from the session entitled "Pandemic Fieldwork: Doing Fieldwork During a Pandemic" , at the 2021 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Over the last few decades, archaeologists have turned more attention to studying material signatures of recent events including migration, homelessness, and the aftermaths of disasters. In March 2020, a group of contemporary archaeologists and anthropologists in Tromsø, Norway found themselves in the middle of one such...
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Pandemic Archaeology: A Case Study from Michilimackinac (2021)
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This is an abstract from the session entitled "Pandemic Fieldwork: Doing Fieldwork During a Pandemic" , at the 2021 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Michilimackinac is the site of one of the longest ongoing archaeological projects in North America. Could it continue in a pandemic? Because most of our funding comes from park admission fees and museum store revenue, our project is dependent on Colonial Michilimackinac State Historic Park being open to the public. Once...
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Pandemic Fieldwork: Doing Fieldwork During a Pandemic (2021)
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This is an abstract from 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...
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Rules of the Road: The Intersection of Data Recovery, Highway Construction, and Pandemic Management (2021)
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This is an abstract from the session entitled "Pandemic Fieldwork: Doing Fieldwork During a Pandemic" , at the 2021 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Over the past 15 years, the Missouri Department of Transportation has conducted multiple archaeological investigations, including several large-scale data recovery projects, along major highways in St. Louis county and city. Each succeeding project has had to overcome new and seemingly unique obstacles in order to...
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Shifting Remembrance: On-Site and Digital Memorialization of Soviet Mass Repression in the Wake of COVID-19 (2021)
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This is an abstract from the session entitled "Pandemic Fieldwork: Doing Fieldwork During a Pandemic" , at the 2021 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Many heritage sites in contemporary Russia that are connected to Soviet mass repression lack large permanent memorials, if there is tangible memorialization on-site at all. Instead, many such places become sites meaningful ephemeral encounters, encompassing annual and semi-annual mass gatherings as well as individual...