Stealth Archaeology: Making the Case for Relevance in Idaho

Summary

This is an abstract from the "Heritage Sites at the Intersection of Landscape, Memory, and Place: Archaeology, Heritage Commemoration, and Practice" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

One of the unacknowledged challenges of decolonizing archaeology is recognizing the external political realities in which some professionals work. Working in a state that has explicitly expressed skepticism about the suitability of anthropology as an appropriate field of study can present communicative challenges. However, over the past several years the University of Idaho’s “Idaho Public Archaeology” (IPA) project has consistently engaged several thousand of our state’s citizens through archaeology. What this publicly engaged work has accomplished is a sustained consciousness-raising about the utility and relevance of historical archaeology for citizens throughout the state.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Heritage Sites at the Intersection of Landscape, Memory, and Place: Archaeology, Heritage Commemoration, and Practice   •
• Society for American Archaeology 88th Annual Meeting, Portland, OR (2023)

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Abstract Id(s): 36722.0