Training a New Generation of Heritage Professionals in the Valley of the Sun: The ASU Field School at S’eḏav Va’aki

Part of: Society for American Archaeology 89th Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA (2024)

This collection contains the abstracts of the papers presented in the session entitled "Training a New Generation of Heritage Professionals in the Valley of the Sun: The ASU Field School at S’eḏav Va’aki" at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

In spring 2023, Arizona State University held a new archaeological field school program, designed in collaboration with the City of Phoenix Archaeologist’s Office, focused on a portion of S’eḏav Va’aki (formerly known as Pueblo Grande). The City of Phoenix archaeologist approached ASU in 2021 with a proposal to develop a field school that would help the city create a management plan for a parcel of land within the boundaries of S’eḏav Va’aki. This session presents the results of our collaboration, as well as critical assessments of the lessons learned from the process for both the university and the city, including challenges, successes, and ways that future such activities could be improved. These lessons are not only relevant to course participants but also archaeology instructors beyond ASU looking to develop more easily accessible field training opportunities and governmental employees hoping to establish partnerships with colleges and universities that can serve to train the next generation of heritage professionals.

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  • Assessing the Viability of Limited Collection and in Field Analysis Strategies for Ceramic investigations at S’eḏav Va’aki, Arizona (2024)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Chiara Umbriano. Matt Peeples. Matthew Kroot.

    This is an abstract from the "Training a New Generation of Heritage Professionals in the Valley of the Sun: The ASU Field School at S’eḏav Va’aki" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. One of the primary goals of the Arizona State University field school at S’eḏav Va’aki was to use minimally disturbing methods to accurately characterize the nature, spatial extent, and chronological placement of features within the project area. This goal was developed in...

  • The Benefits, Challenges, and Student Outcomes of an Academic-Governmental Collaboration for Local Undergraduate Field Training in Archaeology (2024)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Matthew Kroot. Matt Peeples. Jessie Kortscheff.

    This is an abstract from the "Training a New Generation of Heritage Professionals in the Valley of the Sun: The ASU Field School at S’eḏav Va’aki" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In 2021 the City of Phoenix’s Archaeology Office invited Arizona State University instructors and students to assist in the development of a management plan for a parcel of land within the S’eḏav Va’aki Museum and Archaeological Park lands via a field training program in...

  • Challenges of Community-Based Heritage Work: Rights Holders, Stakeholders, and the Palimpsest Nature of the Archaeological Record (2024)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Alexandra Ptacek. Matt Peeples. Matthew Kroot. Eunice Villasenor Iribe. Jessie Kortscheff.

    This is an abstract from the "Training a New Generation of Heritage Professionals in the Valley of the Sun: The ASU Field School at S’eḏav Va’aki" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Preservation projects differentially affect rights holder and stakeholder communities. Heritage management professionals can try to accommodate such disparate communities through active collaboration, consultation, and accountability practices. Yet, compliance practices in...

  • Creative Clearance: Caring for an Important Place (2024)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Lindsey Vogel-Teeter. Laurene Montero. Nicole Armstrong-Best.

    This is an abstract from the "Training a New Generation of Heritage Professionals in the Valley of the Sun: The ASU Field School at S’eḏav Va’aki" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. S’edav Va’aki (formerly known as Pueblo Grande) is an ancestral O’Odham (Hohokam) archaeological village site and Phoenix’s only National Historic Landmark. Most of the site is preserved and maintained by S’edav Va’aki Museum (Museum) and includes a publicly accessible...

  • Using Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) Photography to Develop Preservation and Management Plans at S’eḏav Va’aki, Arizona (2024)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Matt Peeples. Anthony Wende. Matt Kroot.

    This is an abstract from the "Training a New Generation of Heritage Professionals in the Valley of the Sun: The ASU Field School at S’eḏav Va’aki" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. As part of the Arizona State University field school at S’eḏav Va’aki, the research team reached out to ASU faculty from the Unmanned Aerial Systems department to develop a plan for capturing true color and infrared imagery and photogrammetric data from the project area....