Meaningful Engagement on a Shoestring Budget in North Georgia

Summary

This is an abstract from the "Broader Impacts and Teaching: Engaging with Diverse Audiences" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

Engaging students, landowners, the public, and policy makers in the scientific process of archaeology is an essential component of our discipline and creates opportunities to impress upon these groups the value of historic preservation. Doing so demonstrates that archaeological and historic resources are limited and fragile, affording professionals the opportunity to emphasize the at-risk nature of many of these resources while also raising awareness of the diversity of local cultural heritage. Many institutions, particularly in today’s sociopolitical and economic climate, may struggle with ways to fulfill the need for public engagement on limited funds. This paper presents various low-budget and collaborative efforts to engage others in the process of archaeology, from research design to excavation, artifact processing and analysis, report writing, and the final dissemination of results. Four engagement-minded archaeological projects from north Georgia’s Piedmont are discussed, serving as case studies of low-budget, high-impact engagement strategies.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Society for American Archaeology 86th Annual Meeting, Online (2021)   •
• Broader Impacts and Teaching: Engaging with Diverse Audiences

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Abstract Id(s): 32131