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.