African American Burial Grounds Network Act
Historical archaeologists are the ones who most frequently come into contact with burials from the African American past. From the First African Burial Ground in NYC to community cemeteries around the...
View ArticleNew Thematic Collection on “Disrupted Identities: Colonialism, Personhood,...
Post prepared by Mark Axel Tveskov, Southern Oregon University Laboratory of Anthropology The forthcoming issue of Historical Archaeology [Vol 53(1)] includes a thematic collection dedicated to the...
View ArticleThere is Power in Numbers: If Archaeologists Don’t Meet with Elected...
Barbara Clark, Northwest Region Director, Florida Public Archaeology Network As an archaeologist, the idea of walking the halls of your state capitol to speak with legislators and their staff might be...
View ArticleCaught in a Bad Romance
By Tristan Harrenstein, Public Archaeology Coordinator, Florida Public Archaeology Network Talk, talk speaker matey, work it move, that partner’s lazy Not all interpretation is worth your time....
View ArticleBranding, Buy-in, and Archaeology Partnerships
By John P. McCarthy, RPA Delaware State Parks In 2014 as a new employee of Delaware State Parks, I was charged with reactivating the Time Traveler volunteer archaeology program...
View ArticleNew Thematic Collection – Excavating ‘The Garden of the North’: Five...
The upcoming Thematic Collection of Historical Archaeology (53:3) takes Western Massachusetts as an archaeological research subject, a source of poetic inspiration and ideological struggle, and a...
View ArticleArchaeologists Working with High School Students
By Patricia Samford, Maryland Archaeological Conservation Laboratory, Jefferson Patterson Park and Museum Several years ago, I told a colleague that I was working with a group of high school students,...
View ArticleRethinking the Archaeology of Capitalism: New Collection in Historical...
We are happy to announce the next issue of Historical Archaeology will be arriving in your mailboxes soon! Here’s a preview of some of the content from the guest editor of the thematic collection on...
View ArticleExploring the Submerged History of St. Augustine
This is a post by Allyson Ropp, Archaeologist at the St. Augustine Lighthouse and Maritime Museum The St. Augustine Lighthouse & Maritime Museum houses an extensive maritime archaeology program,...
View ArticlePartners in Preservation: The Texas Archaeological Stewards Network (TASN)
Sarah Jane Chesney, PhD Texans like to boast that “everything is bigger in Texas,” and they’re not far off: measuring 268,581 square miles with a population of close to 29 million spread across 254...
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