The past is changing – archeology, university, and the town of Oulu, Northern Finland

Summary

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Beyond the Classroom: Campus Archaeology and Community Collaboration" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology.

In this paper we will examine the community role of the archaeology in Oulu University has changed during the last decades. The Oulu University archaeology program used to organize fieldworks in several, mainly, prehistoric sites in northern Finland, however, these were not community-based projects. Today, archaeology has had more small-scale projects involving public as interviewees and as community-based research. Topics varies now, including contemporary industrial research on sawmill communities, research at the last hanging site, and the difficult local war-time past with the Nazi German army in Oulu. This change reflects that archaeologists have been organizing joint field schools with cultural anthropologists to gather and study local oral and material histories. Our cases studies and excavations have been focused on sites at the campus and neighborhood areas.

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• Beyond the Classroom: Campus Archaeology and Community Collaboration   •
• Society for Historical Archaeology 2022

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