What the Old Ones Have to Teach Us

Summary

This is an abstract from the "Research, Education, and American Indian Partnerships at the Crow Canyon Archaeological Center" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

This paper discusses two important directions in archaeology today. The first is the urge to better-incorporate Native views and interests into archaeological practice; and the second is the urge to make the results of archaeology more useful for the present and future. I suggest that a productive way to integrate these two urges is to treat the archaeological record as Native people do—as a source of knowledge for how to live now. I provide a few examples from my experience to illustrate this point and suggest a few ways that US Southwest archaeology could take advantage of this approach.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Research, Education, and American Indian Partnerships at the Crow Canyon Archaeological Center   •
• Society for American Archaeology 88th Annual Meeting, Portland, OR (2023)

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Abstract Id(s): 35542.0