The Veterans Curation Program: Unintended Public Archaeology

Author(s): Jessica Mundt; Jasmine Heckman

Year: 2018

Summary

The Veterans Curation Program was created with the mission to rehabilitate U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) archaeological collections while providing temporary employment and vocational training to veterans. In the nine years that the VCP has been in operation, it has evolved into a dynamic public archaeology effort that engages non-archaeologists in the field of archaeology on a daily basis. This paper explores the varied approaches to public archaeology within the Program, as well as the intended and unintended outcomes.

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The Veterans Curation Program: Unintended Public Archaeology. Jessica Mundt, Jasmine Heckman. Presented at The 82nd Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Washington, DC. 2018 ( tDAR id: 445328) ; doi:10.6067/XCV8VD7292

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Keywords

General
Conservation and Curation • Public and Community Archaeology

Geographic Keywords
North America

Spatial Coverage

min long: -168.574; min lat: 7.014 ; max long: -54.844; max lat: 74.683 ;

Record Identifiers

Abstract Id(s): 20847

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