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Sonya Atalay - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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community based archaeology research with by and for indigenous and local communities
2012Co-Authors: Sonya AtalayAbstract:Archaeology impacts the lives of indigenous, local, or descendant communities. Yet often these groups have little input to archaeological research, and its results remain inaccessible. As Archaeologists consider the consequences and benefits of research, the skills, methodologies, and practices required of them will differ dramatically from those of past decades. As an archaeologist and a Native American, Sonya Atalay has investigated the rewards and complex challenges of conducting research in partnership with indigenous and local communities. In "Community-Based Archaeology", she outlines the principles of community-based participatory research and demonstrates how CBPR can be effectively applied to archaeology. Drawing on her own experiences with research projects in North America and the Near East, Atalay provides theoretical discussions along with practical examples of establishing and developing collaborative relationships and sharing results. This book will contribute to building an archaeology that is engaged, ethical, relevant, and sustainable.
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indigenous archaeology as decolonizing practice
American Indian Quarterly, 2006Co-Authors: Sonya AtalayAbstract:Archaeology includes the study of artifacts and other aspects of material culture but is more importantly about people-understanding people's daily lives, their sense of place in the world, the food they ate, their art, their spirituality, and their political and social organization. In piecing together multiple lines of evidence, including written documents, oral histories, analytical data from artifacts and ecofacts, and a range of regional and local environmental evidence, Archaeologists attempt to write the stories of the past. Stated simply, archaeology is one of many tools utilized for understanding the past. However, when placed in its proper historical context, it is clear that the discipline of archaeology was built around and relies upon Western knowledge systems and methodologies, and its practice has a strongly colonial history.' Many Archaeologists have come to recognize that archaeology is based on, and generally reflects, the values of Western cultures.2 In privileging the material, scientific, observable world over the spiritual, experiential, and unquantifiable aspects of archaeological sites, ancient peoples, and artifacts, archaeological practice demonstrates that it is solidly grounded in Western ways of categorizing, knowing, and interpreting the world. However, as Indigenous and local groups around the world have demonstrated, it is not only Archaeologists who feel stewardship responsibilities toward archaeological materials and locations-many groups have rights and responsibilities to the human and material remains and to the knowledge, memories, and spiritual power that are intimately tied with the places and materials studied by Archaeologists. Prior to European colonization, communities were able to act as stewards over their
Gilbert Pwiti - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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community involvement in archaeology and cultural heritage management an assessment from case studies in southern africa and elsewhere
Current Anthropology, 2008Co-Authors: Shadreck Chirikure, Gilbert PwitiAbstract:Community archaeology has conferred an alternative dimension on conventional archaeology and heritage management, empowering previously powerless peoples, particularly the indigenous and local communities that have lost rights to their heritage through colonialism. So important has its impact been that there has been only limited reference in the literature to its problems. Examination of case studies from various parts of the world reveals that problems associated with defining what a community is and who is indigenous, coupled with the existence of multiple communities with multiple interests, have sometimes diminished the utility of the approach. In some cases, Archaeologists and heritage managers have been unwilling to give up some of their powers and have continued to view local communities as only passive partners. In others, local communities have considered their views and concerns more important than those of the Archaeologists. As a result, the so‐called equal partnerships between Archaeologists...
Hisham Qasrawi - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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virtual assembly of pottery fragments using moire surface profile measurements
Journal of Archaeological Science, 2005Co-Authors: Iqbal Marie, Hisham QasrawiAbstract:Abstract Reconstruction of archaeological monuments and potteries from fragments found at archaeological sites is a tedious task that requires many hours of work from Archaeologists and restoration personnel. Excavations from famous archaeological sites in Jordan such as Petra, Jerash, Um Qeis, Ajlun etc. indicated civilization throughout centuries, from prehistoric periods, up to present. The restoration process is tedious and lengthy due to the mass of fragile fragments which consists of thousands of sherds found at excavation sites. An approach is the use of shadow moire experimental technique to obtain the 3D model of pots from 3D measurements of the surface profile using the photos captured. This method is a non-destructive optical technique used for visual surface inspection, and surface profile measurements. The approach is simple, requires minimal mathematical calculations and reduces the risk of frequent handling of the fragile sherds, because the photos can be captured using a simple experimental setup in the site. Matching of fragments and aligning them geometrically is based on matching the profiles and edges of the broken parts virtually. This virtual assembly technique may assist the Archaeologists as much as possible in solving their task with minimum time and minimum damages to fragments. The technique, of course, does not completely replace the archaeologist, but provides a useful estimation of valid fragment combinations, and accurately measures fragment matches. It also simplifies modeling the pots virtually using 3D-MAX modeling software to obtain the missing pieces.
Castilla Lisa - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Arkeologi, urfolk och rätten : En studie av relationen mellan arkeologi, arkeologer, urfolk och rättsprocesser i Sverige och Kanada
Uppsala universitet Institutionen för arkeologi och antik historia, 2021Co-Authors: Castilla LisaAbstract:Archaeological evidence has become an important part of the argument for the Indigenous peoples of several countries in legal proceedings concerning their rights. This thesis aims to explore how Archaeologists and archaeological research are affected by acting as expert witnesses or being used as evidence in these proceedings. Another aim is to explore the differences and similarities between Sweden and Canada in these matters. The main material consists of interviews with seven Archaeologists, four Swedish and three Canadian, whose research in various ways have been involved in legal proceedings concerning the rights of Indigenous peoples: The Sámi in Sweden and the Indigenous peoples of Canada. The analysis of the interviews is based on seven themes: awareness, impact, responsibility, experience, objectivity, archaeology and law and consequences. The result shows several things. It shows that the issue of archaeology in legal proceedings is a sensitive matter, and that the Archaeologists have somewhat ambivalent feelings about it. It also shows that the involvement of Archaeologists and archaeological evidence in these legal proceedings raises discussions about ethics, objectivity, and reputation. One conclusion to be drawn is that there is need for more open discussion and education on the subject.
Alison Wylie - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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how archaeological evidence bites back strategies for putting old data to work in new ways
Science Technology & Human Values, 2017Co-Authors: Alison WylieAbstract:Archaeological data are shadowy in a number of senses. They are notoriously incomplete and fragmentary, and the sedimented layers of interpretive scaffolding on which Archaeologists rely to constit...