SESSION INFORMATION:
PUBLIC ARCHAEOLOGY: INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVES, DEBATE AND CRITIQUE
A Session Presented at the Society for Historical and Underwater Archaeology Annual Conference Long, Beach, CA January, 2001

SESSION ABSTRACTS

Symposium:
PUBLIC ARCHAEOLOGY: INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVES, DEBATE, AND CRITIQUE (PART ONE) SYMPOSIUM
(SHA Public Education and Interpretation Committee [PEIC] Invited)
Co-Chairs: Patrice L. Jeppson, Carol McDavid, and Linda Derry
Thursday, January 11, 2001
9:40AM-12:00PM
1:30PM-4:00 PM

Much recent conversation about public archaeological practice has revealed a certain ambiguity about what the term "public archaeology" means. Is all archaeology inevitably "public"? Or, are individual areas of "public" expertise (education, "heritage", technology, politics, journalism, performance, museums, tourism, CRM, etc.) beginning to form a legitimate area of specialized archaeological practice? If this is so, what are the implications of this growing specialization, both within archaeology and in terms of public awareness? This session will explore the different goals pursued under the rubric "Public Archaeology", and attempt to provide critical and self-reflexive assessments of what we actually do with our "publics", and (perhaps more importantly) what our work with our publics does, within archaeology as a discipline and in social life more generally. This symposium will be followed by panel discussion of the same name which involve all participants as well as audience members in discussing these issues.

Panel Discussion:
PUBLIC ARCHAEOLOGY: INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVES, DEBATE, AND CRITIQUE (PART TWO) PANEL DISCUSSION
(SHA Public Education and Interpretation Committee [PEIC] Invited)
Co-Chairs: Carol McDavid, Linda Derry, and Patrice L. Jeppson
Saturday, January 13, 2001
9:40AM-12:00PM

While it is true that archaeology characterized as "public" is often limited to narrow descriptions of how-tos of engaging the public, the reality is that, worldwide, practitioners of public archaeology are increasingly conducting and writing theoretically informed scholarship that goes far beyond the practical. Discussants in this panel, which leads from the earlier formal symposium of the same name, will continue to discuss (with each other and with audience members) the implications of this recent work in public archaeology. Panel members will represent different national and regional styles of doing "public archaeology" (such as "Heritage", CRM, etc.), as well as different areas of specialization within public archeological practice (such as museums, education, descendant involvement, ethics, cultural tourism, etc.).

Discussants: Carol McDavid Linda Derry James G. Gibb Ann E. Killebrew Eve Black John P. McCarthy Ken Brown Patrice L. Jeppson Varna Boyd Alf Hatton Vergil Noble George Brauer

Presentations are listed below in the order in which they appear in the session. Click on the underlined links following each paper title to view relevant material. Posted material includes individual abstracts for each paper in the session and, for some presentaions, text of the paper or related papers, presentation graphics and websites.