Delivering on the Promise: Mobilizing Knowledge in the Ikaahuk Archaeology Project

Summary

Partnerships between local communities and academics are becoming increasingly important in addressing a range of research questions in a warming Arctic. These approaches hold great promise for archaeology, but community participation in research demands that archaeologists rethink the aims and outcomes of our work. Here, we reflect on the ways in which our efforts to engage the Inuvialuit community of Sachs Harbour in our archaeological research project on Banks Island, NWT have shaped the project aims and desired outcomes. Our efforts to democratize archaeological recording and reporting through the use of photogrammetry, 3D modelling and Facebook could facilitate community-based documentation of archaeological sites threatened by coastal erosion and other climate change-related impacts on the Arctic archaeological record.

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This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Society for American Archaeology 80th Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA (2015)   •
• Current Problems in Arctic Research

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