I had the pleasure of reading a version of this article a while ago and I will be assigning it for my summer field school students. It is a thoughtful piece on where we’ve come from and where we should be going in public archaeology. It is written by Lorna Richardson and Jaimes […]
An interesting conversation erupted from my in-progress first post on the many terms archaeologists use to describe their work when it involves people outside the discipline. Lorna Richardson, probably the foremost expert on digital public archaeology, asked: does anyone outside our discipline even care what we call it? I have […]
Why do we use so many terms to mean basically the same thing? One of the things that frustrates me about academia is that in search of precise meanings, we create new terms incredibly frequently. We still have to explain in what sense we mean it, so why keep adding to the pile? […]