Geo-locating Community Memory and Archaeological Heritage Via an Adaptive App

Summary

The New Mexican dicho "cada cabeza es un mundo," is especially true as hordes of tourists, academics, and others descend on rural northern communities and misunderstandings erupt between keepers of heritage places and those for whom those spaces are invisible. As the result of community-engaged archaeology, partnered research into historically-silenced pasts has led to expanding mandates for project deliverables. One innovation is the development of a smartphone-based historical tour for which both internal and external versions may have utility. Available offline and triggered by users’ arrival at various, approved locations on community lands, different users (visitor and community versions) will have access to co-crafted and community-vetted narratives about the past and their roles in the present. Rather than relying on all to carry or understand the same perspectives within their heads, the sounds, tellings, presence, and experiences of heritage may well be aided from what is in one’s hand.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• The Interpretation and Presentation of Archaeological and Cultural Heritage Sites: Evolving Horizons   •
• Society for Historical Archaeology 2018

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Contact(s): Society for Historical Archaeology

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PaperId(s): 810