Sharing the shelves and opening the doors: making collections useful to communities

Summary

This is an abstract from the "Many Voices in the Repository: Community-Based Collections Work" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

For the past decade, historical archaeologists at the University of Idaho have been aggressively committed to make archaeology available to communities. On one front, this has meant conducting numerous excavations that were explicitly open to the public for participation. Teh second front has been collections focused. The collections work has taken many forms ranging from analytical work on specific objects, to creating digital venues for sharing collections, to long-term collaborations with federal agencies to analyze and report on their long dormant collections. Collectively, the work is demonstrating that learning through archaeology is ongoing and does not end when the excavations end.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Society for American Archaeology 90th Annual Meeting, Denver, CO (2025)   •
• Many Voices in the Repository: Community-Based Collections Work

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Abstract Id(s): 52998