Heritage Sites at the Intersection of Landscape, Memory, and Place: Archaeology, Heritage Commemoration, and Practice

Part of: Society for American Archaeology 88th Annual Meeting, Portland, OR (2023)

This collection contains the abstracts of the papers presented in the session entitled "Heritage Sites at the Intersection of Landscape, Memory, and Place: Archaeology, Heritage Commemoration, and Practice" at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

Archaeology has traditionally worked through the lens of oversimplified binaries: historical versus precontact archaeology, the past as objectively separate from the present, or academic research versus compliance or public archaeologies, for example. This symposium presents a cross section of studies that attempt to extend beyond these dichotomies, to decolonize the practice of archaeology to be inclusive to previously marginalized voices, and to increase the access and relevance of heritage sites to the diverse publics.

Other Keywords
Historic • Cultural Resources and Heritage Management • Colonialism • contact period • Public and Community Archaeology • Historical Archaeology • Chinese • Schools • Indigenous • digital archaeology

Geographic Keywords
North America (Continent) • United States of America (Country) • USA (Country) • North America: Pacific Northwest Coast and Plateau • Arizona (State / Territory) • Utah (State / Territory) • Nevada (State / Territory) • California (State / Territory) • North America: California and Great Basin • Kentucky (State / Territory)

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  • Challenges to Managing Tribal Knowledge and Physical Places within the Homelands of the Confederated Klamath Tribes (2023)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Tom Connolly. Perry Chocktoot.

    This is an abstract from the "Heritage Sites at the Intersection of Landscape, Memory, and Place: Archaeology, Heritage Commemoration, and Practice" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. People recognize places on the landscape that have historical and spiritual importance to their communities, and it is often the case that different cultural communities sharing the same space have very different cultural maps. Among Tribal communities, identifying...

  • Decolonizing the Fort Vancouver School (2023)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Douglas Wilson.

    This is an abstract from the "Heritage Sites at the Intersection of Landscape, Memory, and Place: Archaeology, Heritage Commemoration, and Practice" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Fort Vancouver School formed part of the colonial project of the Hudson’s Bay Company to “civilize” and assimilate Native Americans and the multiethnic families of fur traders. By 1836, a kitchen behind the Chaplain’s/Priest’s House was used as the schoolhouse. By...

  • The Grand Portage of the St. Louis River: Reinterpretations and Language Revitalization (2023)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Sigrid Arnott. Janis Fairbanks. David Maki. Marcus Ammesmaki.

    This is an abstract from the "Heritage Sites at the Intersection of Landscape, Memory, and Place: Archaeology, Heritage Commemoration, and Practice" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Grand Portage of the St. Louis River is both a historic route and a series of historic sites originally documented as a fur trade connection between Lake Superior and the Mississippi River Basin. Although often considered a “contact period” site, the trail has...

  • Indigenous Stewardship, Comanagement, and Knowledge Production: A Perspective from the California Coast (2023)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Peter Nelson.

    This is an abstract from the "Heritage Sites at the Intersection of Landscape, Memory, and Place: Archaeology, Heritage Commemoration, and Practice" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Resource management and academic disciplines focused on the study of cultural heritage and the environment have historically trained practitioners and hired for positions focused on either cultural or ecological aspects of the landscape. This dichotomy may be a...

  • Legendary Landscapes, Community Access, and Continued Relevance at the Nathan Harrison Site in San Diego County, California (2023)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Seth Mallios.

    This is an abstract from the "Heritage Sites at the Intersection of Landscape, Memory, and Place: Archaeology, Heritage Commemoration, and Practice" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Nathan Harrison Historical Archaeology Project, a 20-year undertaking that sought to understand and communicate the life and legacies of San Diego County’s first African American homesteader, employs orthogonal thought and archaeological, anthropological, and...

  • The Role of Federal-Academic Partnerships in Training the Next Generation of Archaeologists: A Case Study from the Ocala National Forest (2023)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Edward Gonzalez-Tennant. John Dysart. Taylor Collore. Rachel Thompson. Alex Nalewaik.

    This is an abstract from the "Heritage Sites at the Intersection of Landscape, Memory, and Place: Archaeology, Heritage Commemoration, and Practice" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Ocala National Forest is the largest in the southern United States. Its 400,000 acres is home to 14,000 years of human history. In 2019, authors Dysart and Gonzalez-Tennant developed a multiyear project centering on an iterative approach to predictive modeling,...

  • Searching for Salem's Early Chinese Community (2023)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Kimberli Fitzgerald. Kirsten Straus. Kylie Pine.

    This is an abstract from the "Heritage Sites at the Intersection of Landscape, Memory, and Place: Archaeology, Heritage Commemoration, and Practice" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Did Salem, Oregon, have a Chinatown during the late 1800s? In this research paper, Kimberli Fitzgerald documents the three-year investigation to answer to this question with her local colleagues Kirsten Straus and Kylie Pine. The author worked with a local advisory...

  • Stealth Archaeology: Making the Case for Relevance in Idaho (2023)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Mark Warner. Katrina Eichner.

    This is an abstract from the "Heritage Sites at the Intersection of Landscape, Memory, and Place: Archaeology, Heritage Commemoration, and Practice" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. One of the unacknowledged challenges of decolonizing archaeology is recognizing the external political realities in which some professionals work. Working in a state that has explicitly expressed skepticism about the suitability of anthropology as an appropriate field of...

  • Summit Camp (2023)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only R. Scott Baxter.

    This is an abstract from the "Heritage Sites at the Intersection of Landscape, Memory, and Place: Archaeology, Heritage Commemoration, and Practice" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Summit Camp was occupied by Chinese railroad workers from 1864 to 1869. It was the longest occupied camp associated with the building of the transcontinental railroad. Workers from the camp excavated a series of tunnels through the granite bedrock of the Sierra Nevada...

  • Two Millennia of Resilience: The Old Town Bandon Site on the Oregon Coast (2023)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Mark Tveskov. Donald Ivy.

    This is an abstract from the "Heritage Sites at the Intersection of Landscape, Memory, and Place: Archaeology, Heritage Commemoration, and Practice" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Old Town Bandon site is a large archaeological site on the Oregon Coast that lies beneath the sidewalks of a settler community. The site has been the subject of over 30 years of archaeological research guided by the Coquille Indian Tribe. This work has revealed the...