Presenting Archaeology to the Public: Digging for Truths (1997)

ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS

MARK BOGRAD is curator at Lowell National Historical Park in Lowell, Massachusetts. His interests include historical interpretation in museums, African-American archaeology, and archaeological theory. Collaborating with Theresa Singleton, he wrote "The Archaeology of the African Diaspora in the Americas", Guides to the Archaeological Literature of the Immigrant Experience in America, Number 2 (Society for Historical Archaeology, Tucson, Arizona, 1995).

GREGORY BRASS is a graduate student in cultural anthropology at McGill University. He resides on the Mohawk Territory of Kahnawake (Quebec) with his wife, Ojistoh Horn, and their infant daughter, Kanontienentha.

SHERENE BAUGHER is an Assistant Professor of Archaeology in the Department of Landscape Architecture at Cornell University and is a faculty member of Cornell's Archaeology Program and American Indian Program. From 1980 to 1990, she served as the first official archaeologist for the City of New York. Her publications focus on status and class in 18th- and 19th-Century America. She works with planners and Native Americans to excavate and preserve endangered Indian, colonial, and 19th-century sites.

NANCY JO CHABOT is the assistant registrar for the New Hampshire Historical Society's Museum of New Hampshire History. She holds a B.A. degree from the University of the Maryland and an M.A. from Binghamton University. In addition, she spent a semester studying with Ian Hodder at Cambridge, England. Chabot has extensive archaeological field experience with both client-funded and grant-funded research. She has worked on archaeological projects in Virginia, Maryland, New York, and New Hampshire, as well as in Honduras and Israel.

KAREN LEE DAVIS is the Director of the Museum Assessment Program at the American Association of Museums (AAM). Davis started at AAM in 1992 as its first assistant director of education. Her prior positions include administrator of education and interpretation at the Jefferson Patterson Park and Museum, St. Leonard, Maryland, and director of the Hallockville Museum, Binghamton, Kentucky. Davis holds a Ph.D. in anthropology from the State University of New York, Binghamton. She is the author of several articles on museology and anthropology, including "History Exhibits and Theories of Material Culture" in the Journal of American Culture and "Unpuzzling the Past: Critical Thinking in History Museums" in the Museum Studies Journal, which she coauthored with James G. Gibb. Davis is active in the museum community, serving on several boards.

JOHN E. EHRENHARD heads the National Park Service's Southeast Archaeological Center in Tallahassee, Florida. As chief of the Center, he oversees archaeological data recovery and technical assistance programs in the southeastern United States, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands. With over 25 years of experience as a professional archaeologist, Ehrenhard has traveled in 27 foreign countries and has conducted or overseen research in 18 states and territories. He is the author or coauthor of 46 books, monographs, and articles and is recognized as a national leader in the movement for federal archaeological stabilization and preservation.

MARY FARRELL has worked in archaeology in Maryland, West Virginia, and Virginia, as well as in the Sierra Nevada of California. She now has the good fortune of working for the Coronado National Forest (Arizona) as assistant forest archaeologist. She also dabbles in historic building stabilization and preservation, prehistoric and historic archaeology of southeast Arizona, and rock-art recording.

BARBARA HEATH received her Ph.D. in historical archaeology from the University of Pennsylvania. She formerly directed the Department of Archaeology at Monticello and is currently the Director of Archaeology at Thomas Jefferson's Poplar Forest. Heath's research interests include historic landscapes, plantation slavery, and public interpretation.

MARGARET HEATH is Chief Heritage Education Project Manager for the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), based at the Anasazi Heritage Center, Dolores, Colorado. The focus of her work is nationwide implementation of Project Archaeology, a program that trains teachers how to use archaeology in the classroom in such a way that students will learn to preserve and protect their cultural heritage. She is the former Director of Education at the Crow Canyon Archaeological Center in Cortez, Colorado. She taught in the Denver area for seven years before becoming involved in heritage education in the early 1980s. Heath holds a B.A. degree in anthropology and an M.A. in education administration from the University of Colorado­Boulder. She is married, with two children. She recently received an Honorable Mention Award for Excellence in Interpretation from the BLM.

TERESA L. HOFFMAN is the former Deputy State Historic Preservation Officer for Arizona, where she facilitated public involvement in archaeology and historic preservation through a broad range of public programs. She is currently a senior project manager with Archaeological Consulting Services, Ltd. As a member of both the Society for American Archaeology Public Education Committee and the board of directors for the Malpais Foundation (a private, nonprofit organization dedicated to managing Casa Malpais National Historic Landmark as an archaeological park), she continues to promote public involvement in archaeology.

NICHOLAS HONERKAMP is a UTC Foundation Professor at the University of Tennessee­Chattanooga, and since 1980 has served as the Director of UTC's Institute of Archaeology. His interests include urban and industrial archaeology, southeastern prehistoric archaeology, long-distance running, and the Fender percussion bass.

WILLIAM R. ISEMINGER received his B.A. degree in anthropology from the University of Oklahoma, and his M.A. in anthropology from Southern Illinois University­ Carbondale. He has worked at Cahokia Mounds for 25 years, conducting archaeological field schools, preparing museum exhibits, writing and editing publications related to the site, and developing and implementing education programs, special events, and other public programming. He currently serves as director of public relations and exhibit coordinator for Cahokia Mounds State Historic Site. He recently received a Lifetime Professional Achievement Award from the Illinois Association of Museums.

JOHN H. JAMESON, JR. is a staff archaeologist with the National Park Service's Southeast Archaeological Center in Tallahassee, Florida. His nearly 18 years of federal service have encompassed a broad range of experience in archaeological field work and cultural resource management in several regions of the United States. He is a recognized leader in the rapidly emerging fields of archaeological education and public interpretation. Jameson is the organizer and coordinator of the National Park Service's Public Interpretation Initiative Program, a long-term public outreach program, international in scope, that has involved numerous government-sponsored symposia, training workshops, seminars, and publications on the topic of public education and interpretation of cultural resources.

DAVID T. KIRKPATRICK is an archaeologist and the Associate Director of Research and Public Education, Human Systems Research, Inc., Las Cruces, New Mexico. He earned his Ph.D. at Washington State University. Since 1972, he has conducted interdisciplinary studies of New Mexico's prehistoric and historic cultures, publishing the results in both technical and popular reports. He is actively involved in local and statewide programs that contribute to the preservation of New Mexico's diverse cultural heritage, from Paleoindians to the end of the Cold War. Annually, he is coeditor for the "Papers in Honor of" series published by the Archaeological Society of New Mexico.

MEGGETT LAVIN is Curator of Education and Research for Drayton Hall, a National Historic Landmark and museum property of the National Trust for Historic Preservation, in Charleston, South Carolina. She is responsible for interpretation, public programs, collections care, and research, and "happily wears all the other hats of a small site, as needed!" Since joining the Drayton Hall staff in 1981, Lavin has developed internationally recognized heritage education programs in architecture and archaeology for students K-12, and provided numerous workshops on the topic for educators, professional meetings and museum consultations. Her publications include "The Docent Educator," National Trust Forum, and "Archaeology and Public Education," Society for American Archaeology. She has also been interviewed for videotapes produced by the National Park Service and PBS. Lavin holds a B.A. in writing and literature from Wheaton College in Norton, Massachusetts, and was a 1983 Kellogg Fellow in museum education at the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago.

DAVID POKOTYLO is Associate Professor of Archaeology in the Department of Anthropology and Sociology, University of British Columbia­Vancouver. His major areas of interest are the archaeology of the Canadian far west (plateau and subarctic regions), lithic analysis, quantitative methods, and public archaeology. He continues to collaborate with the Stó:lo Nation in research and public interpretation at Xa:ytem.

PARKER B. POTTER, JR. is a student at the Franklin Pierce Law Center in Concord, New Hampshire. Before that, he was employed as a milker at Highway View Farm in Boscawen, New Hampshire. Once upon a time Potter was an archaeologist. He holds a B.A. from Washington and Lee University; his M.A. and Ph.D. degrees are from Brown University. Potter has published articles in Historical Archaeology, American Antiquity, Current Anthropology, and several edited volumes. His most recent book is Public Archaeology in Annapolis: A Critical Approach to History in Maryland's Ancient City.

DOUGLAS D. SCOTT received his Ph.D. degree from the University of Colorado­Boulder in 1977. He has worked for the Oklahoma Historical Society and the U.S. Bureau of Land Management. Since 1983 he has been a Division Chief with the National Park Service's Midwest Archaeological Center in Lincoln, Nebraska. He also teaches at the University of Nebraska­Lincoln. His recent research has focused on understanding behavior in conflict situations, with a focus on American Civil War battlefields and Plains Indian Wars battlefields. Scott has also participated in several United Nations­sponsored human rights investigations in various war-torn areas of the world. He has published extensively on his work in regional and national journals, and serves as the senior editor of two books on the archeological investigations at the Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument.

THERESA A. SINGLETON is curator of historical archaeology in the Department of Anthropology at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History. Her interests include the archaeology of the African diaspora, American slavery, and museum presentation. She edited The Archaeology of Plantation Life (Academic Press, 1985), and has published numerous articles on the archaeology of African-American life. She also wrote, with Mark Bograd, "The Archaeology of the African Diaspora in the Americas," Guides to the Archaeological Literature of the Immigrant Experience in America, Number 2 ( Society for Historical Archaeology, Tucson, Arizona, 1995).

KAROLYN SMARDZ initially trained as a classical archaeologist with degrees from Wilfrid Laurier and McMaster universities in Ontario, Canada, but quickly moved into the nascent field of public archaeology in the early 1980s. By 1985, in cooperation with prehistorian Peter Hamalainen, she had established the first archaeology education and research facility in any municipal school board in the world, the Archaeological Resource Centre (A.R.C.) of the Toronto Board of Education. The facility was closed as a result of budget cuts in 1993, after more than 100,000 children and members of the public had participated in hands-on learning at historic urban sites and in the A.R.C. labs. Smardz has published and spoken on an international scale, emphasizing the methods, standards, and ethics that she perceives to be essential for operating effective, engaging public programs while safeguarding the archaeological record. She is currently the Manager of Public Archaeology and Development for the Institute for Minnesota Archaeology, and she is editing two books on educational archaeology.

STANLEY SOUTH, a leading historical archaeologist in the United States, has had a profound influence on the history and theoretical development of the archaeological discipline since the 1950s. His early work on public interpretations and reconstructions at Town Creek Temple Mound and Bethabara in North Carolina, Charles Towne in South Carolina and elsewhere have provided standards for emulation. His latest archaeological endeavor, an ambitious and productive series of archeological studies of the 16th-century Spanish site at Santa Elena in South Carolina, promises to provide new scientific information as background to effective public presentations of this important site.

PETER STONE is qualified and experienced as both a teacher and an archaeologist. He has worked for 16 years in the field of archaeological and heritage education, and has conducted doctoral research on teaching the prehistoric archaeological past to young children. He has published extensively and has coedited two major volumes: The Excluded Past: Archaeology in Education, and The Presented Past: Heritage Museums and Education. For the last nine years Stone has worked for English Heritage, formally as a regional education officer and latterly with national responsibility for developing links with adult and higher education. His overseas work has included training the education service of the Museums and Monuments Commission of Zimbabwe and serving with <UNESCO in developing an international teaching kit for World Heritage sites and the World Heritage Convention.

DIANA DIZEREGA WALL is an Associate Professor of Anthropology at City College of New York. She has worked extensively in urban archaeology in New York and is the author of The Archaeology of Gender: Separating the Spheres in Urban America as well as numerous other articles.

STEPHANIE WHITTLESEY became captivated with archaeology while on a "floating university" sponsored by Chapman College that literally sailed around the world. She went on to pursue graduate studies in anthropology and archaeology at the University of Arizona and was associated for many years with the university's field school at Grasshopper, Arizona. As senior principal investigator for Statistical Research, Inc., a private cultural resources consulting firm in Tucson, she has recently dedicated her work to meshing the requirements of CRM with high standards of research. Whittlesey has developed a particular interest in public outreach, believing that a prime responsibility of archaeologists is to disseminate the results of research to the public that supports it. She is currently exploring a number of creative avenues for public outreach, including drama and living history. With Jefferson Reid, she recently completed a book, The Archaeology of Ancient Arizona (University of Arizona Press), on Arizona archaeology and prehistory written, for a general audience.

REBECCA YAMIN is a principal archaeologist and senior project manager with John Milner Associates in Philadelphia. She is currently directing the analysis of material recovered on the site of a new federal courthouse in lower Manhattan, once part of the infamous Five Points neighborhood, which was characterized in the 19th century as New York's worst slum. Yamin received her Ph.D. in anthropology from New York University in 1988 and subsequently joined the Morven Landscape Archaeology Project in Princeton, New Jersey, where she developed an interpretive program for the site. Her dissertation focused on local trade in pre-Revolutionary New Jersey. She is the coeditor of the recently published Landscape Archaeology: Reading and Interpreting the American Historical Landscape.

MARTHA ZIERDEN is Curator of Historical Archaeology at The Charleston Museum, where she has been involved in archaeological research and public interpretation. Her studies in the last decade have focused on development of the urban landscape, as well as on the everyday life of 18th and 19th century urban residents.