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The objective of the article is to identify the perceptions, meanings, and resignifications that the inhabitants of Sígsig canton, Azuay province (Ecuador), assign to archaeological heritage. It also attempts to explain how these ways of understanding and using such heritage come into conflict and friction when managed exclusively within a legal and institutional framework. To analyze the ambiguities arising from the dichotomy between public management and the local populations' uses and meanings of heritage, this study employs the theoretical frameworks of public archaeology and the methodological approach of participatory cartographies. By analyzing national and local heritage regulations and conducting interviews and mappings with actors from the educational, political, and general society sectors, it is suggested that institutional management views heritage as an identity, historical, and economic resource through tourism. Additionally, this management is characterized by a fiscalizing, regulatory, and sanctioning logic, while the inhabitants understand, incorporate, and use archaeological objects and vestiges in their daily lives. This usage fosters a direct connection with oral traditions, intangible aspects, and, above all, with nature. Thus, frictions were identified between the social and political uses of heritage, which regularly involve themes such as gold, mining, and water, within a framework of collective imaginaries and discourses. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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El presente artículo describe cómo, en el Proyecto Arqueológico Barrancas (PAB), hemos trabajado para colaborar con la puesta en valor y gestión del patrimonio cultural arqueológico de la localidad de Barrancas (Departamento Cochinoca, Jujuy). Uno de sus objetivos es presentar los fundamentos teórico-metodológicos desde los cuales entendemos la gestión y puesta en valor de dicho patrimonio, como son la arqueología pública y la comunicación pública de la ciencia. El segundo objetivo del trabajo es presentar las producciones y actividades que el equipo de investigación realizó para la puesta en valor del patrimonio arqueológico de Barrancas. Estos productos son afiches, un libro, charlas en colegios, capacitaciones a guías de turismo locales, talleres de excavación participativa y asesoramiento en la creación y manejo del Centro de Interpretación Arqueológica de Barrancas. Destacamos que este último, inaugurado en 2020, se ha consolidado como un espacio de encuentros, trabajo e intercambio para muchos actores sociales, incluyendo al PAB. Concluyendo, entendemos que haber socializado nuestro trabajo en ámbitos participativos y buscando que la información quede a disposición de actores diversos, ha contribuido a que cada uno de ellos pudiera apropiárselos y resignificarlos en función de sus propios intereses y sentimientos identitarios.

A lo largo de las investigaciones del equipo se procuró construir un saber sobre el Cementerio Municipal de La Plata el cual entendemos en peligro. El mismo se caracteriza por conformar un paisaje funerario sujeto a una hermenéutica que da cuenta de la producción de este, su ordenación material y simbólica, la circulación y recepción diferencial de sentidos por los distintos momentos y sectores sociales que conforman y han conformado la ciudad y sus alrededores. Sin embargo, estos saberes construidos desde las investigaciones no llegaban a interpelar al público por fuera del ámbito académico. Reconociendo que el conocimiento debe ser una construcción compartida con la comunidad a la que la Universidad Nacional de La Plata se dedica y sirve, nos hemos propuesto fomentar un intercambio dinámico, inclusivo y organizado con los residentes de la localidad donde se encuentra el cementerio. Para ello apuntamos a rescatar el valor patrimonial funerario histórico y actual del mismo, a partir del compromiso por construir una ciudadanía activa y comprometida con apropiarse, narrar y vivenciar su propia historia local. Se apunta, en definitiva, a buscar una fórmula que nos permitiera integrar algunas de las aristas teóricas de nuestro recorte analítico y recursos como investigadores con los intereses de la comunidad.

En el equipo Arqueología Rioplatense (Laboratorio de Análisis Cerámico, Facultad de Ciencias Naturales y Museo, Universidad Nacional de La Plata) desarrollamos tareas de investigación, extensión universitaria, comunicación científica y cogestión del patrimonio con distintas organizaciones territoriales en los partidos de Magdalena, Punta Indio y en la costa de Berisso (provincia de Buenos Aires, Argentina). El objetivo de este trabajo es presentar nuestra experiencia vinculada a la realización de tres muestras de arqueología y reflexionar sobre los desafíos, potencialidades y aprendizajes que se generaron en el diálogo con otros actores institucionales. Estas surgieron de demandas concretas de distintas instituciones y sujetos sociales, y sus procesos de diagramación y montaje requirieron el diálogo y la gestión con distintos organismos y trabajadores/as con diversas trayectorias disciplinares. Asimismo, tuvieron objetivos y destinatarios particulares, que orientaron aspectos de contenido y lenguaje utilizado, implicando procesos reflexivos respecto a qué mostrar, de qué manera y para qué. Consideramos que las muestras posibilitan la participación activa de la comunidad en la recuperación, puesta en valor y socialización del patrimonio. En tal sentido, estas experiencias de comunicación aportan a la construcción horizontal y al diálogo de saberes entre múltiples actores e instituciones.

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En nuestra región las tecnologías digitales han dejado de ser novedad, pasando a ser herramientas de uso cotidiano en arqueología tanto para la investigación como para la gestión y comunicación del patrimonio. Dentro de la literatura se distinguen puntos de partida tecnoutópicos que sostienen una mirada positiva sobre su impacto. Específicamente para la comunicación y puesta en valor patrimonial se asume que, de la mano de medios de comunicación y tecnologías digitales, se pueden dar nuevos modos de interacción y percepción con el potencial de incidir en las asimetrías inherentes a la producción de narrativas sobre el pasado. En ocasiones, estos enfoques no contemplan la reflexión sobre las posibilidades y limitaciones en la implementación de lo digital. Para aportar a este debate, sin perder de vista el marco latinoamericano, el presente trabajo recupera experiencias argentinas en desarrollo y reflexiona sobre cómo se tensionan el uso de tecnologías digitales y la dimensión pública del patrimonio arqueológico. Argumentamos sobre la importancia de poner en el foco de discusión las condiciones de accesibilidad, conocimiento y usos de lo virtual. Nos preguntamos de qué modo se configuran las trayectorias, el anclaje territorial y las estrategias de comunicación en los proyectos impulsados. Además, abordamos en qué medida esto incide en los niveles de participación de distintos actores e instituciones.

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La Batalla de l’Ebre (1938) va ser la més decisiva de la Guerra Civil espanyola. La desfeta de l’Exèrcit Popular va provocar l’ocupació de Catalunya i la victòria definitiva de les forces del general Franco sobre la República espanyola. Els vencedors van ubicar sobre el camp de batalla monuments per escenificar la seva victòria, però les accions de patrimonialització van tenir un desenvolupament limitat, mentre que la II Guerra Mundial i el seu desenllaç van obrir perspectives incertes per al règim del general Franco. La mort del dictador l’any 1975 va provocar canvis polítics a Espanya, i els espais històrics de la Batalla de l’Ebre van conèixer noves intervencions a l’entorn del seu patrimoni, subsidiàries dels imaginaris socials i polítics del procés de democratització. Nous monuments i instal·lacions museals convidaven a una interpretació de la batalla compatible amb l’imaginari de reconciliació desenvolupat pel nou règim constitucional. Dècades després dels combats, la batalla de l’Ebre continuava, però ara la pugna s’establia entre models i accions per fixar la memòria al territori, a partir d’intervencions patrimonials, museus, monuments i escultures. En el context d’emergència democràtica de principis del segle XXI, les iniciatives de la societat civil, sumades a les dinàmiques de recerca i socialització del coneixement impulsades en clau d’història pública i arqueologia pública, obrien noves perspectives en la recuperació d’una memòria republicana de la batalla. En aquest context destaquen les iniciatives del grup de recerca «Didàctica del Patrimoni» (DIDPATRI) de la Universitat de Barcelona. L’estudi aproxima les diferents fases d’apropiació, en clau de memòria històrica, del camp de batalla de l’Ebre, i les iniciatives i casuístiques principals de patrimonialització generades, al seu entorn, en els diferents moments històrics.

As the venues for professional training and education, universities have always shaped the future of the archaeological discipline—for better but also, in important ways, for worse. Historically, university structures promoted practitioner homogeneity and social inequity and, at the largest research-intensive universities, even managed to turn "service" into a dirty word. However, using the same structures that perpetuated damaging practices in the past, universities can just as readily transform archaeology into the inclusive, community-engaged discipline it should always have been—while serving communities in ways that matter to them. This article explains and illustrates how and why we have tried to do this through the founding and operation of the Oklahoma Public Archaeology Network (OKPAN) at the University of Oklahoma. OKPAN seeks to improve relationships among diverse Oklahoma communities by framing archaeology as a tool that that can serve communities' interests while creating pathways within universities for members of historically excluded groups to join and help further transform the discipline. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The cultural continuum methodology was created in 2011 during archaeological and cultural management intervention in the Mateo Salado archaeological complex (Cercado de Lima). This methodology proposes that all activities evinced into a monument along the time have same value as life styles, connecting in this way pre-Columbian archaeology, historic archaeology, archaeology of the contemporaneity, and public archaeology. It challenges temporal criteria must be determinant because it privileges an epoch at the expense of other ones and trends to select events for a grandiloquent diffusion. Likewise, the cultural continuum allows addressing contemporary and controversial issues in a monument usually seen as only pre-Hispanic. For showing these features, this paper presents cultural continuum applications in investigation, conservation and restoration, and cultural management towards community in Mateo Salado. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

New approaches and social dynamics are enabling the establishment of an essential connection between archaeologists and the community that allow us to understand the significance and legitimacy the past holds for modern communities. In this context, cultural heritage has the role of connecting and justifying the preservation of the past in order to give it a social use and imbue it with value for the community. The work underway at Nivín was based on these ideas, and had as its main goal establishing and strengthening the connection between cultural heritage and the local community through public archaeology with a co-creative approach. This means collaborating with the local people in accordance with their needs and concerns, in order to become allies in the pursuit of information and in the development of activities that integrate the past with the present. These collaborative practices between the local school and archaeologists took place through educational and artistic activities promoting the preservation, presentation, and interpretation of Nivín’s cultural heritage. This article explores the collaborative work carried out at Nivín, the interactions between its participants, the impact these efforts have on, and the dynamics of heritage preservation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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El presente trabajo apunta a conceptualizar y reflexionar sobre las construcciones de sentidos y representaciones acerca del patrimonio arqueológico, que se manifiestan entre cuatro coleccionistas de la localidad de Villa de Soto, Córdoba. La mirada se centrará en el análisis de los relatos surgidos durante las tareas de inventariado de las colecciones arqueológicas, de las entrevistas y de charlas originadas en el contexto de algunas actividades desarrolladas en conjunto con el equipo de arqueólogos de la Universidad de Córdoba. Se propone aquí un abordaje desde la arqueología pública, la perspectiva de lo comunitario y la multivocalidad que propicie una reflexión sobre la disciplina arqueológica, el vínculo de las personas interesadas en la arqueología y la relación con el patrimonio. Principalmente propongo problematizar acerca de las políticas de representación del patrimonio cultural local, como así también pensar y construir en conjunto diversas formas de abordar problemáticas arqueológicas situadas.

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In 2019, we launched the Northern Arizona Paleoindian Project to expand on findings from the Rock Art Ranch (RAR) Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU; NSF#1262184). The REU recovered 24 Paleoindian artifacts in association with drainages. Expansion of the research required mitigation of the patchwork landownership in the area, which encouraged a collector-collaboration model following Pitblado (2014) and Douglass et alia (2017). We held public events in collaboration with a network of agencies, avocational groups, collectors, and landowners to assess potential for Paleoindian archaeology in the area. In March 2020, however, the COVID-19 pandemic halted our efforts, allowing us to evaluate our project and practice. We find that tapping into existing local networks of responsible resource stewards (RRS) can greatly accelerate project development. We also find that private collections are endangered, and preserving this portion of the archaeological record requires documentation and long-term curation. Most importantly, we find that archaeologists working with collectors are uniquely positioned to build bridges between Indigenous communities, RRS, and professional archaeologists to help stabilize legacy collections and that this focus should drive collector-collaboration research design. Ultimately, the project must move toward a community-based participatory research design to seek equitable and culturally appropriate curation plans for local legacy collections. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Randall H. McGuire é professor ilustre da Binghamton University, State University of New York, EUA. McGuire é um arqueólogo interessado principalmente no desenvolvimento de relações de poder no passado e no presente. Ele realizou a maior parte de seu trabalho de campo no sudoeste dos EUA e atualmente está conduzindo um projeto de campo de longo prazo no noroeste do México. Ele também fez arqueologia histórica e pesquisa de história oral no nordeste dos EUA. Em 2010, ele concluiu um projeto de investigação da greve de carvão de 1913-1914 no sul do Colorado. Desde 2011, ele faz pesquisas em arqueologia contemporânea na fronteira entre os Estados Unidos e o México ao redor de Nogales, Arizona. Além de arqueologia histórica, história e etnologia, seus interesses incluem métodos quantitativos, teoria social, gestão de recursos culturais e datação arqueomagnética. A primeira parte dessa entrevista foi realizada em maio de 2014 na Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG) durante o curso “Arqueologia como Ação Política”, baseado em seu livro com o mesmo nome. O curso foi organizado pelo Programa de Pós-Graduação em Antropologia e Laboratório de Arqueologia da FAFICH / UFMG.

O artigo traz reflexões sobre as contribuições de Paulo Freire para a promoção de um conhecimento arqueológico sobre a diversidade cultural construído com o público escolar. Apresentamos as principais atividades desenvolvidas no âmbito do projeto de extensão “Ações Educativas do Projeto Arqueologia e Educação: questões de diversidade no Ensino Fundamental I”, realizado no ano de 2018. Este projeto nasceu de atividades de pesquisadores do Núcleo de Estudos e Pesquisas em Memória, Cultura e Educação da Universidade do Estado de Minas Gerais, UEMG/Poços de Caldas, e teve como intuito oficializar as ações educativas realizadas em escolas desde 2012. Tais ações tiveram como fio condutor os dizeres da lei 11.645/08, com enfoque baseado nos pressupostos da Arqueologia Pública, e buscaram levar à educação escolar diferentes abordagens sobre diversidade cultural e patrimônio arqueológico.

Tomando como punto de partida la exposición arqueológica “DIVERS[]S. Facetas del género en el Ecuador prehispánico”, planteamos que la praxis de educación problematizante mediante el método dialógico puede articular espacios como universidades, museos y colectivos activistas, y desencadenar pasos reales hacia una arqueología pública. Además, en el presente artículo, proponemos cómo las reflexiones de Paulo Freire sobre la educación como práctica de libertad, y sus propuestas metodológicas detalladas en la “Pedagogía del oprimido”, se pueden vincular y cristalizar, para cuestionar y subvertir diferentes campos del poder intelectual y social.

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El río Alagón discurre, entre otros términos, por el de Ahigal, dividiendo el territorio en dos durante largos períodos. Para su paso se usaban barcas que, además de peligrosas, apenas suplían las necesidades de los viandantes. A finales del XIX, ante la necesidad de construir un puente, se llevó a cabo la obra del que sería conocido como Puente del Monte. Tradicionalmente, se ha creído que los vecinos de Ahigal costearon esta obra en su totalidad, pero no es del todo correcto, pues sería la Diputación de Cáceres quien cubriera, en parte, el importe del proyecto que atribuimos a D. Emilio Mª Rodríguez y que fue inspeccionado por D. Vicente Paredes. Ochenta años después, el puente perderá su función de ingeniería civil al quedar, por siempre, sumergido en las aguas del embalse de Valdeobispo.

Partindo dos modelos de atuação dos pesquisadores no campo da Arqueologia Pública, identificados por Cornellius Holtorf e associados às premissas da Teoria de Educação e Trabalho Docente Conscientizador, cunhada por Paulo Freire, este artigo apresenta resultados do trabalho desenvolvido em sete projetos de Educação Patrimonial, entre 2009 e 2018, elaborados no âmbito do licenciamento ambiental. Foram consideradas informações relativas ao público envolvido, à contribuição das atividades para a construção do conhecimento, reconhecimento e apropriação do patrimônio, através da observação de quatro aspectos: categorias dos projetos, região geográfica onde o projeto foi realizado, transição entre público-alvo e público participante, e metodologia de realização.

Esta pesquisa tem como objeto de estudo a Fábrica de Cerâmica Castanheiro, que manteve suas atividades produtivas entre 1980 e 2003 no bairro Santa Luzia em São Raimundo Nonato/PI. Conjugando os preceitos teórico-metodológicos da arqueologia industrial e urbana às narrativas de moradores locais, buscamos identificar os espaços produtivos da fábrica e problematizar sua importância para a organização espacial do bairro, avaliando como ela influenciou a urbanização, o processo de industrialização e o desenvolvimento econômico do município. Assim, por meio de prospecções, entrevistas semiestruturadas e levantamento documental, identificou-se que a fábrica era composta por cinco estruturas, com funcionalidades distintas: pátio de estocagem; galpão de produção (que abrigava os maquinários); local de armazenamento de matéria-prima (caixão alimentador); galpão de secagem; e espaço associado ao processo de queima (fornos, chaminé, sistema subterrâneo de exaustão). Essas constatações permitiram elaborar um modelo 3D do local. Percebeu-se que a fábrica contribuiu para o crescimento urbano do bairro, fornecendo material para a construção de casas e para seu desenvolvimento socioeconômico, gerando empregos que atraiam pessoas para residirem no bairro e trabalharem na fábrica, e, consequentemente, uma expansão geográfica e demográfica. A fábrica empregou cem funcionários, o que demonstra que a economia municipal contava com uma produção industrial relevante e não se limitava aos setores de serviço e agropastoril.

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Although we, as archaeologists, recognize the value in teaching nonprofessionals about our discipline and the knowledge it generates about the human condition, there are few of these specialists compared to the number of archaeologists practicing today. In this introductory article to the special section titled "Touching the Past to Learn the Past," we suggest that, because of our unique training as anthropologists and archaeologists, each of us has the potential to contribute to public archaeology education. By remembering our archaeological theory, such as social memory, we can use the artifacts we engage with on a daily basis to bridge the disconnect between what the public hopes to gain from our interactions and what we want to teach them. In this article, we outline our perspective and present an overview of the other three articles in this section that apply this approach in their educational endeavors. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Office of the Wyoming State Archaeologist has as one of its main objectives to actively engage the population of Wyoming in archaeological stewardship. To achieve this goal, in the past five years, we have launched the youth-oriented Summer Ventures program and the adult-oriented Wyoming Avocational Archaeology Training Program. Both programs were inspired by existing programs in other parts of the country and were launched following research and target audience surveys on how to best adapt them to Wyoming. Despite this preliminary research, our in-field experiences over the past few years have shown some patterns that are causing us to rethink both programs. This article discusses these initial in-field testing years, the issues we have encountered, and the ways we are redesigning both programs to better target the appropriate audiences in light of the different lifestyles of populations, particularly those of youths, in a rural state. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Archaeologists have a responsibility to use their research to engage people and provide opportunities for the public to interact with cultural heritage and interpret it on their own terms. This can be done through hypermedia and deep mapping as approaches to public archaeology. In twenty-first-century archaeology, scholars can rely on vastly improved technologies to aid them in these efforts toward public engagement, including digital photography, geographic information systems, and three-dimensional models. These technologies, even when collected for analysis or documentation, can be valuable tools for educating and involving the public with archaeological methods and how these methods help archaeologists learn about the past. Ultimately, academic storytelling can benefit from making archaeological results and methods accessible and engaging for stakeholders and the general public. ArcGIS StoryMaps is an effective tool for integrating digital datasets into an accessible framework that is suitable for interactive public engagement. This article describes the benefits of using ArcGIS StoryMaps for hypermedia and deep mapping–based public engagement using the story of copper production in Iron Age Faynan, Jordan, as a case study. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Public Archaeology in the Mediterranean Context (#pubarchMED) is a project that focuses on the management of archaeological heritage in the Mediterranean context from the perspective of public archaeology. Ranging from fully public models where preventive archaeology itself is a challenge to mixed models where the outsourcing of this work has been accomplished to a full extent, the variety of solutions is wide and with a common trend: struggle with mitigation and little space for creativity. This article will delve into the range of models that exist in the Mediterranean, exploring the way they approach, first of all, preventive/rescue archaeology, and then, the relationship between archaeology and society in the process. Building on the challenges of an underfunded scheme for an extremely archaeologically rich territory, different solutions have been set in practice—in some cases, under the auspices of competent administrations in the form of public policy—in the endeavor to include public archaeology in the practice, mostly encouraged by professionals as a personal or corporate initiative, and sometimes even consciously avoided. The discussion will offer some ideas for creative mitigation in the different scenarios, built on the comparative study and the broad possibilities to engage stakeholders positively in the process. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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A consistent challenge in community and collaborative archaeologies has been the appropriate identification and understanding of project constituencies. A key step in stakeholder analysis is understanding and harmonizing the goals of archaeological work to the social role of the institutions for which we work. To illustrate the value of such a stance, we examine on-campus archaeology programs at colleges and universities, arguing that treating students as vital stakeholders is an important ethical obligation for both researchers and administrators. Including students as stakeholders in campus archaeology provides pedagogical benefits and a meaningful way to instill an appreciation of archaeology in an important constituency of potential voters and future decision-makers. We present a case study from Santa Clara University (SCU), reporting results of an online survey of undergraduates that was intended to gauge community interests in campus archaeology and heritage. We also detail activities undertaken by SCU's Community Heritage Lab in response to survey findings in order to raise the profile of the archaeological and other heritage resources on our campus. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Although archaeology has become increasingly concerned with engaging diverse publics, and has embraced the internet as a means of facilitating such engagement, attitudes towards Wikipedia have—understandably—been more ambivalent. Nevertheless, we argue here, Wikipedia's popularity and reach mean that archaeologists should actively engage with the website by adding and improving archaeological content. One way to do this is in the classroom: this paper provides a detailed how-to for instructors interested in having students create new Wikipedia content. We provide a case study in Wikipedia engagement from an advanced undergraduate course on African Archaeology, assess a program (Wiki Education) designed to help, and suggest further avenues for future outreach. We conclude that Wikipedia's utopian mission aligns with many of the goals of public archaeology, and argue that archaeology has much to gain by engaging with—rather than ignoring or even shunning—Wikipedia. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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