"It comes from gathering": Collaborative Archaeology and Future Directions

Summary

This session interrogates the practice, theoretical foundations, and outcomes of collaborative archaeology, and explores how collaborators are transforming our discipline today. Today’s papers demonstrate how collaborative archaeology offers epistemological resources that traditional, public and even community archaeology cannot provide, and how collaborative approaches force us to reexamine the disciplinary goals, practices, and outcomes of archaeological practice widely. We have divided the session papers into three broad themes: (1) Service: Working for Communities, Not on Them, (2) Conflict Resolution and Archaeological Engagement, and (3) Redefining the Discipline of Archaeology. As an example, I briefly present ethnoarchaeological research on homemaking on the islands of Inishark, Inishturk, and Inishbofin in western Ireland, highlighting how the documentation of delph, dressers, and shop ledgers serves these communities in preserving and celebrating island heritage today.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Society for American Archaeology 82nd Annual Meeting, Vancouver, BC (2017)   •
• A Global Dialogue on Collaborative Archaeology

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Abstract Id(s): 14809