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A Co-created Museum/Archaeology Brochure
Image adapted from brochure created by Allison Hennie I recently posted about several of the exhibit projects completed by students in my Applied Archaeology and Museums class from this past semester....
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Applied Archaeology: Two More Student Projects
National Museum of the American Indian, Washington D.C., USA I recently posted about my course Applied Archaeology and Museums and some of the student projects from the class. Below are two more...
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Co-Creation: The Messiness of Being Relevant
This past Saturday temperatures in Memphis were in the upper 90s to insure a pretty light turn out for our regular Volunteer Day activities at the C.H. Nash Museum at Chucalissa – especially since we...
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Day of Archaeology in Hualcayán, Peru
Hualcayán students in line for Santa Cruz Anniversary Parade. For the past 24 hours of this Day of Archaeology I spent the early morning in Caraz, Peru where I had arrived the night before after a...
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Cultural Heritage Co-Creation from the Bottom Up
Student adding her string to the class quipu as their History Professor Leodan Abanto Alejo Valerio looks on. I just read a volume of papers on creativity in museums, visitor experiences, and so forth....
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The Poverty Point World Heritage Site, a Louisiana First
Nancy Hawkins with plaque presented to her at the dedication. This past Saturday Poverty Point was formally dedicated as a World Heritage Site of UNESCO. This is a big deal for the archaeology and...
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Public Access to Artifacts: A Problem or Opportunity?
Hands-On Lab in 2008 We are doing a major exhibit upgrade at the C.H. Nash Museum at Chucalissa. Here is a story – in the Spring of 2008 we launched our “Hands-on Archaeology Lab” drawing on some of...
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Reality Television & Archaeology
The latest issue of the Society for American Archaeology‘s (SAA) Archaeological Record Volume 15, No. 2, March 2015 contains a special section – Archaeological Practice on Reality Television – edited...
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The Importance of Amateur Archaeologists
Last week I participated in a forum about professional archaeologists working with “amateur” or “avocational” archaeologists. The session, “Cons or Pros: Should Archaeologists Collaborate with...
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Archaeological Outreach in the Mississippi Delta
This week’s post features an interview with Jayur Mehta who is completing his doctoral studies at Tulane University in New Orleans. His dissertation work focuses on the Carson Mound group near...
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Poverty Point: Revealing the Forgotten City
Poverty Point: Revealing the Forgotten City by Jenny Ellerbe and Diana Greenlee (2015, Louisiana State University Press) contains a set of photographs and essays on the 3500 year old prehistoric...
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Publication of a Co-created Oral History For Hualcayán, Peru
We are almost there! On July 28, Independence Day in Peru, we will deliver the first copies of the La Historia de Hualcayán: Contada Por Sus Pobladores (The History of Hualcayán: In the Words of Its...
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Why Co-Creation in Archaeology Works
At the modern cemetery in Hualcayán, Peru, food and drink offerings are made to the deceased as in the prehistoric period at the site. As a blue-collar kid, I grew up a trade union activist, believing...
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An Archaeological Surprise at Nivin, Peru
(For a Spanish language version of this post, click here.) This past week, my colleague Elizabeth Cruzado Carranza and I visited Nivín Arqueologia about 25 km from Casma, on the north central coast...
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Survey on Archaeology Blogs
Fleur Shinning from Leiden University in the Netherlands is conducting graduate research focused on the use of blogs and social media and how they contribute to the accessibility of archaeology. Her...
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Co-Creation and Public Archaeology
In August of this year my colleague Elizabeth Bollwerk and I published a special thematic issue of the Society for American Archaeology’s Advances in Archaeological Practice titled Co-Creation and...
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Reality Television & Archaeology
The latest issue of the Society for American Archaeology‘s (SAA) Archaeological Record Volume 15, No. 2, March 2015 contains a special section – Archaeological Practice on Reality Television – edited...
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The Importance of Amateur Archaeologists
Last week I participated in a forum about professional archaeologists working with “amateur” or “avocational” archaeologists. The session, “Cons or Pros: Should Archaeologists Collaborate with...
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Archaeological Outreach in the Mississippi Delta
This week’s post features an interview with Jayur Mehta who is completing his doctoral studies at Tulane University in New Orleans. His dissertation work focuses on the Carson Mound group near...
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Poverty Point: Revealing the Forgotten City
Poverty Point: Revealing the Forgotten City by Jenny Ellerbe and Diana Greenlee (2015, Louisiana State University Press) contains a set of photographs and essays on the 3500 year old prehistoric...
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