Public ArchaeologyPub Date : 2017-10-02DOI: 10.1080/14655187.2018.1483123
Sally K. May, Mel Marshall, Inés Domingo Sanz, Claire Smith
{"title":"Reflections on the Pedagogy of Archaeological Field Schools within Indigenous Community Archaeology Programmes in Australia","authors":"Sally K. May, Mel Marshall, Inés Domingo Sanz, Claire Smith","doi":"10.1080/14655187.2018.1483123","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14655187.2018.1483123","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper we investigate the pedagogy of archaeological field schools. Specifically, we explore the combination of tertiary level field schools and Indigenous community (or community-based) archaeology. Using a detailed case study of a rock art field school in Arnhem Land, Australia, we explore the processes and outcomes of combining archaeological field training with the ideas and methods of community archaeology. We discuss the relationship and unique challenges faced by such community archaeology field schools, particularly that of balancing the priorities of competing stakeholders. Our discussion illustrates the complexities of training students to work in an environment where cultural belief systems are still strongly linked to sites and landscapes. While the challenges are numerous, the outcomes, particularly for students, provide an unparalleled educational experience, one that cannot be obtained in any other learning format.","PeriodicalId":45023,"journal":{"name":"Public Archaeology","volume":"16 1","pages":"172 - 190"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2017-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/14655187.2018.1483123","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45107583","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Public ArchaeologyPub Date : 2017-10-02DOI: 10.1080/14655187.2017.1499398
M. Oldham
{"title":"Bridging the Gap: Classification, Theory and Practice in Public Archaeology","authors":"M. Oldham","doi":"10.1080/14655187.2017.1499398","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14655187.2017.1499398","url":null,"abstract":"Models and classifications have been a part of thinking about public archaeology since at least the early 2000s, but how are these ideas translated into practice? By looking into the development of such classifications and models and by examining archaeologists’ attitudes to an archaeological education outreach project for schoolchildren in Oslo, Norway, this paper looks at the relationship between classification, theory, and practice in public archaeology.","PeriodicalId":45023,"journal":{"name":"Public Archaeology","volume":"16 1","pages":"214 - 229"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2017-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/14655187.2017.1499398","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47561745","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Public ArchaeologyPub Date : 2017-10-02DOI: 10.1080/14655187.2018.1496519
G. Tully, M. Allen
{"title":"Participatory Augering: A Methodology for Challenging Perceptions of Archaeology and Landscape Change","authors":"G. Tully, M. Allen","doi":"10.1080/14655187.2018.1496519","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14655187.2018.1496519","url":null,"abstract":"Public engagement is a significant feature of twenty-first-century archaeological practice. While more diverse audiences are connecting with the discipline in a multitude of ways, public perceptions of archaeology are still marred by stereotypes. Community excavations of ‘sites’ to discover ‘treasures’ which tell us about the ‘past’ overshadow other forms of public research output and hinder the potential of the discipline to contribute to contemporary society more widely. This paper proposes participatory augering as an active public engagement method that challenges assumptions about the nature of archaeological practice by focusing on interpretation at a landscape-scale. Through exploration of recent participatory augering research by the REFIT Project and Environmental Archaeologist Mike Allen, this paper demonstrates how the public can contribute to active archaeological research by exploring narratives of landscape change. Evaluation of the existing case studies reflects the potential of the approach to engage audiences with new archaeological methods and narratives which have the potential to transform perceptions of the discipline and, through knowledge exchange, drive community-led contributions to contemporary landscape management.","PeriodicalId":45023,"journal":{"name":"Public Archaeology","volume":"16 1","pages":"191 - 213"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2017-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/14655187.2018.1496519","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48168600","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Public ArchaeologyPub Date : 2017-06-13DOI: 10.1080/14655187.2016.1258916
Bernard K. Means
{"title":"A Digital Passport to the Past: The ‘Accidental’ Public Archaeology of the Virtual Curation Laboratory","authors":"Bernard K. Means","doi":"10.1080/14655187.2016.1258916","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14655187.2016.1258916","url":null,"abstract":"As an undergraduate student at Occidental College in Los Angeles in the 1980s, I quickly realized that being a physicist was not how I wanted to spend my few short years on this planet. This meant that I would likely not achieve my dream of becoming an astronaut, but I certainly did not envision that I would trade outer space for cyberspace. Inspired by my freshman-year ‘Magic, Witchcraft, and the Occult’ class, I turned my attention toward anthropology and soon decided to focus on archaeology. I had recently seen Raiders of the Lost Ark, and figured this meant that I would be travelling to exotic lands and dodging giant boulders, deigning to occasionally grace the classroom to teach the next generation of daredevil archaeologists. Perhaps to ensure that I saw beyond the romance of archaeology, my archaeology professor, Dr Luanne Hudson, encouraged me to intern at the Southwest Museum. Here, I spent a semester working with Dr Paul Faulstich, who was curating a new exhibit hall devoted to California Indians. From Dr Faulstich I first learned the issues surrounding the communication of archaeology to the public. I found it particularly challenging to distil an artefact’s complex cultural associations into one or two short sentences that could be understood readily by people of all ages and reading abilities. Later, I became involved with public archaeology as the assistant laboratory director at the Alexandria Archaeology Museum in Alexandria, Virginia. Alexandria’s archaeology laboratory is filled with volunteer technicians, is freely open to visitors, and is situated amongst art galleries in a converted World War I torpedo factory. Despite these occasional forays into public archaeology, and a few while working for private archaeology firms, I assumed that any public archaeology efforts I undertook once I began teaching would be confined to sporadic summer field schools. All that changed when I established the Virtual Curation Laboratory (VCL) in August 2011.","PeriodicalId":45023,"journal":{"name":"Public Archaeology","volume":"16 1","pages":"230 - 238"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2017-06-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/14655187.2016.1258916","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49358530","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Public ArchaeologyPub Date : 2017-04-03DOI: 10.1080/14655187.2017.1470158
C. Pudney
{"title":"Translational Public Archaeology? Archaeology, Social Benefit, and Working with offenders in Wales (Part 2)","authors":"C. Pudney","doi":"10.1080/14655187.2017.1470158","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14655187.2017.1470158","url":null,"abstract":"This article reports on a second case study in the relationship between archaeology and social benefit through working with young offenders in Wales. Whereas a previous article (Pudney, 2018), focused on the MORTARIA project — an archaeological education project engaging adult offenders in South Wales — this study explores the distinctive methods and challenges faced by the subsequent Heritage Graffiti Project (HGP). This project encountered similar, but also different, experiences to MORTARIA, involving different skills and technologies, as well as specific artistic engagement with place. The article considers the effectiveness of the HGP before reflecting on the two projects’ shared implications for future, translational public archaeology projects that wish to work with offenders.","PeriodicalId":45023,"journal":{"name":"Public Archaeology","volume":"16 1","pages":"74 - 89"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2017-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/14655187.2017.1470158","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49123288","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Public ArchaeologyPub Date : 2017-04-03DOI: 10.1080/14655187.2017.1479558
Laura Arias-Ferrer, Alejandro Egea-Vivancos
{"title":"Thinking Like an Archaeologist: Raising Awareness of Cultural Heritage Through the Use of Archaeology and Artefacts in Education","authors":"Laura Arias-Ferrer, Alejandro Egea-Vivancos","doi":"10.1080/14655187.2017.1479558","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14655187.2017.1479558","url":null,"abstract":"This research is based on a qualitative descriptive study of students’ responses to an educational and archaeological project developed in a secondary school in Cartagena, Spain, from 2012 to the present. It aims to analyse instructional experiences that include secondary school students as active agents in the history teaching and learning process. To achieve that aim, an archaeological site was recreated in the schoolyard and a series of activities were designed to introduce teenagers to the interdisciplinary processes of archaeological methodology. The analysis of this experience showed that working with archaeological evidence promotes the construction of historical thinking and reasoning through the analysis of artefacts. Similarly, the development of an archaeological methodology leads students to launch inquiries and construct hypotheses based on them. This lets students gain knowledge about history and historical processes, as well as take part in its construction in an active and reflective way. Students also learn the importance of preserving archaeological heritage as they assess its value as a source of knowledge. The outcomes of the project are presented here, and compared with results from similar initiatives at different educational levels and contexts. It is argued that the introduction of archaeological methodology in educational settings proves to be a valuable and effective resource.","PeriodicalId":45023,"journal":{"name":"Public Archaeology","volume":"16 1","pages":"109 - 90"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2017-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/14655187.2017.1479558","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44042619","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Public ArchaeologyPub Date : 2017-04-03DOI: 10.1080/14655187.2017.1479081
F. Fodorean
{"title":"How Much Do We Actually Know? A Comparison of the Organization of Preventive Archaeology in Romania and in Europe, 2000–15","authors":"F. Fodorean","doi":"10.1080/14655187.2017.1479081","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14655187.2017.1479081","url":null,"abstract":"This study focuses on the organization of preventive archaeology in Romania and several other European countries over the last fifteen years. It provides data comparing the number and density of archaeological sites in Romania identified as a result of large-scale investment projects. It also discusses some important aspects regarding the financial and human resources involved in preventive archaeological excavations in Romania and other European countries. The paper attempts to outline the steps that need to be taken in Romania to ensure the continuing preservation of archaeology. These are: 1. A proper understanding of the importance of certain sites in comparison to others; 2. An accurate understanding of the importance of Article 9 of the Valletta Convention, which focuses on the concept of ‘public awareness’; 3. Prioritizing archaeological projects with useful results; 4. The creation of accurate digital databases, using GIS platforms. Ultimately, it is argued that we need to excavate, but we need even more to preserve, capitalize, and promote the archaeological patrimony, to facilitate the access of the public to archaeological sites, and to make people understand why it is crucial to protect our monuments.","PeriodicalId":45023,"journal":{"name":"Public Archaeology","volume":"16 1","pages":"110 - 123"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2017-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/14655187.2017.1479081","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48812643","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Public ArchaeologyPub Date : 2017-01-02DOI: 10.1080/14655187.2017.1431100
Vasileios Varouchakis
{"title":"Indigenous Archaeologies of Crete, 1878–1913","authors":"Vasileios Varouchakis","doi":"10.1080/14655187.2017.1431100","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14655187.2017.1431100","url":null,"abstract":"This article makes a contribution to the emerging study of alternative, indigenous and subaltern archaeologies, using the Mediterranean island of Crete as a case study. My focus is on the crucial political developments that took place during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, particularly the establishment of the Cretan State. These developments coincided with and facilitated the consolidation of archaeology as a scientific discipline and a state policy on the island. The Cretan population of the countryside ‘contested’ the new attitudes towards the material past by persevering with embedded practices that questioned the validity of scientific approaches. What kind of indigenous imagination underscored such practices? And how did the peasants interact with the new dogma regarding antiquities? Contrary to other groups involved, such as local and Western archaeologists, the rural Cretans remain among the ‘great unknowns’: accounts of relevant events by their own pen are scarce, highlighting the importance of oral historical sources. I therefore present these people through the voices of the others. Archival material such as administrative documents, correspondence, memoirs and newspaper articles, critically assessed, are used for this purpose. This research is also influenced by autobiographical archaeology, as glimpses of my personal work experience and family background overlap with the archival data discussed here.","PeriodicalId":45023,"journal":{"name":"Public Archaeology","volume":"16 1","pages":"42 - 66"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2017-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/14655187.2017.1431100","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48640441","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}