A Presentation on Presenting: How to NOT Suck

Summary

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology.

The primary mission of an archaeologist is to acquire data. This data is recorded, processed, and then examined multiple times in multiple ways. Findings are identified and classified, and then patterns within the data are hopefully discovered and interpreted in order to form hypotheses, theories, and conclusions about the past.

All of this would be meaningless if it could not be expressed in a meaningful way. With the help of oratory methods and practices, literary devices, as well as techniques commonly employed in theatre performance and public speaking, this paper intends to provide the audience with methods of presenting confidently and effectively.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)   •
• Society for Historical Archaeology 2025

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