Building a Methodology for Community-based Archaeology of People of the African Diaspora: Thoughts on Case Studies.

The time is here for archaeologists to step up to the role of enabling communities to have a meaningful collaboration with our research. The papers in this volume exemplify this ability for archeologists to full engage with descendant communities to create projects that are applicable to the people whose identity is impacted by our work This paper takes the opportunity to comb through the methods presented in these case studies and develop a set of criteria by which the goal of community engagement can be had. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]