New Perspectives from Young Community Members at Martin Van Buren National Historic Site

Summary

This is a poster submission presented at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology.

This paper presents the products of a summer field season with the 2023 Urban Archaeology Corps (UAC) program. Ten students from the Albany metropolitan area trained and participated in archaeological survey and research at the Martin Van Buren National Historic Site (MAVA) in Kinderhook, New York. The students conducted this work as employees of the National Park Service. After a week of learning archaeological principles and methods, field trips, and conducting a pedestrian archaeological survey on the property, each student produced a self-directed research project. The projects included promotional materials for the park, presentations on regional history, and papers. Media the students used ranged from videos to pamphlets to papers. Some of those projects are incorporated into this text.

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