Archaeology after Consultation, Reciprocity, and Responsibility

Summary

This is an abstract from the "United States Archaeology at Crossroads Part 1: The Obstacles, the Failures, and the Victories" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

The goals of Indigenous archaeology have called for the incorporation of descendant community voices before and with the starting of a potential project. What will your project do to help descendant communities, how will they be incorporated and share in the work, scholarship, presentations, funding? These are ethical and simple questions that need to be taught and asked from the first archaeology class. Time to address the history of the creation of archaeology and museums, their destructive and extractive processes that creates harm. What is going to be done differently? There are new laws trying to force ethics, but I believe many researchers have already taken this approach and successfully incorporate descendant community voices in their work. This talk will examine and interview a number of archaeologists that practice indigenous methods and protocols and what approaches they take that can be taught in the classroom and adopted now. Legislation aims to solve problems, but it is often more successfully addressed by modified behaviors and practices.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Society for American Archaeology 90th Annual Meeting, Denver, CO (2025)   •
• United States Archaeology at Crossroads Part 1: The Obstacles, the Failures, and the Victories

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Abstract Id(s): 52479