Reciprocal Archaeology in the Time of Climate Change

Summary

This is an abstract from the "Putting Archaeology to Work: Expanding Climate and Environmental Studies with the Archaeological Record" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

Archaeologists have long recognized that partnerships with practitioners from allied disciplines enrich our contributions and create many-layered interpretations of the sites and communities we study. Working in the context of climate change, collaborations between archaeologists and scientific colleagues have expanded to include descendant communities, policymakers, and citizen scientists. Bringing archaeology to different audiences reinforces the critical place it holds in our understanding of human responses to environmental change, while challenging archaeologists to better communicate the relevance of the discipline. Collaborative practice demands a different kind of relationship, one that values a reciprocity holding archaeologists accountable while creating new opportunities for archaeological research. Collaborative practice transforms our research questions, methods, and knowledge production processes. This poster explores examples of reciprocal archaeology in the Middle Atlantic (North America), with an emphasis on the integration of interdisciplinary knowledge, traditional knowledge, and public history to generate a more unified response to the impacts of climate change on cultural heritage.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Society for American Archaeology 89th Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA (2024)   •
• Putting Archaeology to Work: Expanding Climate and Environmental Studies with the Archaeological Record

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Abstract Id(s): 38530.0