Introduction: Out-of-the Box Archaeology Session

Summary

This is an abstract from the "Archaeology Out-of-the-Box: Investigating the Edge of the Discipline" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

In 2017, a group of leading archaeologists published a manifesto calling for the advancement of synthetic archaeology. In their manifesto, they wrote that "Among the benefits that archaeologists should deliver to the public are rigorous, evidence-based narratives of what happened in the past and how these events shaped today’s world" (p.11000). We took this task to heart. But instead of emphasizing the synthetic nature of archaeology, we wanted to highlight its relevance. We choose to do this through the presentation of highly innovation projects that choose to work on issues not usually associated with traditional archaeology. This group of papers will demonstrate how rigorous archaeological methods may be applied to issues highly familiar in our daily lives and provide significant insights that are relevant, fascinating and informative of human culture and human behavior. These are not your grandfather archaeology but projects and ideas that are truly out-of-the-box.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Archaeology Out-of-the-Box: Investigating the Edge of the Discipline   •
• Society for American Archaeology 84th Annual Meeting, Albuquerque, NM (2019)

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Abstract Id(s): 22866