Slowing Down the Archaeological Process in Dolores, Petén, Guatemala

Summary

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

Maya archaeology has always relied on the labor and expertise of field technicians hired from heritage communities across the modern nations of Guatemala, Mexico, Belize, Honduras, and El Salvador. Some of these communities, like Dolores, Guatemala, have been continuously engaged with archaeological projects for several decades, granting its members multi-generational expertise on both Maya civilization and archaeological practice. These field technicians – or as we prefer to call them, grassroots archaeologists – and academic archaeologists have fruitful episodic collaborations. Yet, a disjuncture exists between (1) grassroots archaeologists and the production of archaeological knowledge and (2) academic archaeologists and the heritage communities that are home to grassroots archaeologists.

The Dolores Slow Archaeology Program aims to address these disjunctures by slowing down the archaeological process to adequately integrate grassroots archaeological professionals from the Dolores community as active agents in the design of a sustainable and collaborative project. Join us to hear about the results of our first season of work in Dolores.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts   •
• Society for American Archaeology 89th Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA (2024)

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Abstract Id(s): 38425.0