Revitalizing the Powhatan Indian Town: Collaborative Engagement at the Jamestown Settlement
Author(s): Luke Pecoraro
Year: 2020
Summary
This is a poster submission presented at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology.
For several decades the Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation (JYF) has run an immersive living history museum with a re-created Powhatan Indian town on the grounds of the Jamestown Settlement. Based on the nearby archaeological site of Paspahegh, a pre- and post-contact Powhatan town site, the material culture used by the interpretive staff has been driven almost exclusively by archaeological evidence. While the strength of this tactic resulted in a well-represented outdoor exhibit, some primary written descriptions and oral traditions were not incorporated. Over the next several years and initiative with collaborative relationships between Powhatan descendants and JYF research staff, elements of additional source material will be introduced towards creating a more realistic and dynamic exhibit. The efforts to date are highlighted in this poster along with future directions.
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Revitalizing the Powhatan Indian Town: Collaborative Engagement at the Jamestown Settlement. Luke Pecoraro. 2020 ( tDAR id: 457455)
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Keywords
General
Collaborative engagement
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decolonization
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Material Culture
Geographic Keywords
United States of America
Temporal Keywords
Contact Period
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): 1022