Research Through Education: An Example From Southern Pennsylvania
Author(s): Scott K. Parker
Year: 2016
Summary
Little Antietam Creek, Inc. (LACI) is a non-profit organization whose mission is to educate people of all ages about archaeological and historic research through hands on teaching. Since 2012 we have been excavating the remains of an 18th-century house on the Stoner Farm near Waynesboro, Pennsylvania. The excavations have been conducted entirely by volunteers, students and interns with professional supervision.
Our approach has been successful in introducing numerous school children and adults to archaeology by having them engage in all aspects of archaeology at a real archaeological site. But in addition to teaching LACI is dedicated to providing quality archaeological research. At the Stoner Farm we are studying the lives of the early German immigrants Johannes and Catrin Steiner who settled the property in 1744. The Steiners (Stoner in German) were German Baptist Dunkers, a group of people who were prominent in the area but are poorly researched and understood.
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Research Through Education: An Example From Southern Pennsylvania. Scott K. Parker. Presented at Society for Historical Archaeology, Washington, D.C. 2016 ( tDAR id: 434700)
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Keywords
General
Education
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Hands-on teaching
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Pennsylvania Germans
Geographic Keywords
North America
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United States of America
Temporal Keywords
18th Century
Spatial Coverage
min long: -129.199; min lat: 24.495 ; max long: -66.973; max lat: 49.359 ;
Individual & Institutional Roles
Contact(s): Society for Historical Archaeology
Record Identifiers
PaperId(s): 339