Power to the People: Cultural Resource Investigations along Utility Lines Giving a Voice to Past and Present Communities

This collection contains the abstracts of the papers presented in the session entitled "Power to the People: Cultural Resource Investigations along Utility Lines Giving a Voice to Past and Present Communities" at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

Cultural resource surveys being conducted for various types of utility lines under Section 106 and other federal permitting have allowed archaeologists the opportunity to investigate expansive, linear spaces that may have otherwise been overlooked by traditional research and sampling methods. Most importantly, the federal regulations afford consultation with Native American and other local stakeholders in a process that helps bring the past to the present and contributes to the present conversation about crucial cultural heritage and land management issues. Papers in this session illustrate recent CRM investigations conducted in southern New England by the Public Archaeology Laboratory Inc. (PAL).