Archeology as an Incident: An Application of the Incident Command System for Citizen Science.

Summary

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Archeology, Citizen Science, and the National Park Service" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology.

Organizing a large citizen science event can confront researchers with many operational challenges. In order to achieve desired objectives it is beneficial to utilze an integrated command structure as a basis for the event. This paper will demostrate the use of the incident command system for the ArcheoBlitz held at Knife River Indian Villages National Historic Site, a project that organized 250 middle school students doing archeological research over the course of two days. This summary paper will outline the structure of the event, discuss benifits and challenges of this model, and show how an operational organization can be adopted and used for archeological citizen science activities.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Archeology, Citizen Science, and the National Park Service   •
• Society for Historical Archaeology 2020

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Contact(s): Society for Historical Archaeology

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PaperId(s): 819