When Archeology is the Vehicle, Not the Point
Author(s): Teresa S. Moyer
Year: 2020
Summary
This is an abstract from the session entitled "Slow Archaeology + Fast Capitalism: Hard Lessons and Future Strategies from Urban Archaeology" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology.
Beginning in 2012, the National Park Service has held Archeology Corps at parks across the country with youth-serving non-profit organizations. Not quite summer camp, nor field school, the Corps projects have used archeology as a vehicle to provide safe spaces for summer employment, engage youth through their unique perspectives, create family and community, and draw career pathways into public service. A deliberate process of recognizing the broader context - such as the participants' home lives and the political landscape - influenced the program's design beyond its archeological project. This paper will explore the ways that the unexpectedly most significant aspects of the projects informed the program designs of subsequent years.
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When Archeology is the Vehicle, Not the Point. Teresa S. Moyer. 2020 ( tDAR id: 457516)
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Keywords
General
Archeology Corps
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National Park Service
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youth
Geographic Keywords
United States of America
Spatial Coverage
min long: -129.199; min lat: 24.495 ; max long: -66.973; max lat: 49.359 ;
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Contact(s): Society for Historical Archaeology
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PaperId(s): 130