A Virtual Co-Creative Archaeology Education Place: The Oklahoma Community Heritage Project

Summary

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Remote Archaeology: Taking Archaeology Online in the Wake of COVID-19" , at the 2021 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology.

As is the case with many other archaeology education organizations in the age of COVID-19, the pandemic has forced the Oklahoma Public Archaeology Network (OKPAN) to deliver our educational programming in a virtual world. We recognized that our new digital initiatives needed to maintain the tangible and personally relevant components of face-to-face interactions if we were to keep a non-professional public’s attention. With that in mind, and inspired from Project Archaeology’s classroom lessons (1992, 2009), we created the Oklahoma Community Heritage Project. By asking participants to share an object significant to or part of their heritage, we provided a co-created place to both teach others about individual connections to the past and learn how people engage with the past. Although the project was not without its challenges, we found that those who participated were highly engaged in a co-creative educational process based in material culture about the past and heritage.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Remote Archaeology: Taking Archaeology Online in the Wake of COVID-19   •
• Society for Historical Archaeology 2021

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