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Ellick, Carol J. – Common Ground: Archeology and Ethnography in the Public Interest, 1998
Statistical Research, Inc. (Tucson, Arizona), is an archaeology consulting business that has developed outreach and education programs to increase public awareness of archaeology projects. Programs have included tours of excavation sites, a "Junior Site Stewards" programs for students in grades 4-5, and development of a slide program for…
Descriptors: Archaeology, Archaeology, Historic Sites, Historic Sites
Lipe, Bill – Common Ground: Archeology and Ethnography in the Public Interest, 2001
Interview examines the competing interests of U.S. national parks, which preserve Native American archaeological sites as the basis of cultural and historical interpretation to the public, and archaeologists, whose research excavations may destroy sites. National Park Service projects that encompass both stewardship and interpretation are…
Descriptors: American Indian History, Archaeology, Historic Sites, Historical Interpretation
Flanagan, Joseph – Common Ground: Archeology and Ethnography in the Public Interest, 1998
Hispanic and Native-American seasonal Park Service employees in the Southwest are training younger local workers in masonry preservation in a National Park Service effort to establish a ruins preservation program. These new technicians will also learn to document, photograph, and report on preservation activities and follow legal administrative…
Descriptors: American Indians, Archaeology, Cooperative Programs, Hispanic Americans
Carter, Thomas – Common Ground: Archeology and Ethnography in the Public Interest, 1998
Historians, architectural historians, folklorists, archaeologists, geographers, and preservationists are engaged in documenting and interpreting the material record of human occupation through systematic study of the built environment. "Vernacular architecture" as an object-oriented approach to cultural and historic research is discussed…
Descriptors: Archaeology, Architecture, Built Environment, Cultural Context