Where Accessibility and Inclusion Meet: Archaeology in the Age of Covid and Beyond

This collection contains the abstracts of the papers presented in the session entitled "Where Accessibility and Inclusion Meet: Archaeology in the Age of Covid and Beyond," at the 2021 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology.

While COVID-19 has brought conversations about accessibility to the forefront, many of these echo decades-old calls for change from BIPOC, queer, and disabled scholars. How can we use this moment of heightened visibility and urgency to produce a more inclusive field without ignoring the legacies of anti-racist and radical archaeologies? Like The Decameron, this session follows a group of scholars sharing their experiences and research. But rather than providing a distraction, we seek to revolutionize our field for the future. How can we adapt our methods, goals, and discourse to be inclusive to those outside academia? How can an anti-racist pedagogy result in a more diverse and inclusive field? How does the discourse of existing collections inhibit their accessibility today? How can we make the field more accessible to disabled archaeologists in the field, the lab, and the academy?