Supporting Community Archaeology through Spatial History
Author(s): Daniel J Trepal; Sarah Fayen Scarlett; Don Lafrenier
Year: 2020
Summary
This is an abstract from the session entitled "Digital Technologies and Public Archaeology" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology.
Postindustrial landscapes and communities present distinct challenges to archaeologists and heritage scholars. We demonstrate how the Keweenaw Time Traveler (KeTT), a web-accessible next-generation historical GIS, can be used to allow the public to contextualize and share overlapping concepts of place within the Copper Country, a postindustrial landscape in northern Michigan. Based on approaches developed within Spatial History, the KeTT serves as a robust, flexible interdisciplinary digital heritage infrastructure permitting the visualization of historical big datasets and the sharing of memories, all of which are mutually contextualized in time and space. A public collaboration from the beginning, the KeTT project aims to serve as a two-way link between the community the academy, supporting multivocal heritage-making and community archaeology.
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Supporting Community Archaeology through Spatial History. Daniel J Trepal, Sarah Fayen Scarlett, Don Lafrenier. 2020 ( tDAR id: 456942)
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Keywords
General
Gis
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Postindustrial
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Spatial History
Geographic Keywords
United States of America
Temporal Keywords
1840-Present
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): 533