I have worked for years, decades on public archeology. It needs to be 
part of wholisitc existence without any argument.
The only way. Part of daily life. But there are too many vested 
interests from politicos to realtors to elites and symbeotic academic 
elites  all in the way. Every citizen needs to be able to handle the 
archeology of their own back yard. Now! I would love to go to Austin. I 
am a peasant in debt and with no cars that can make the journey. But 
write and talk I can do. With transport I can sleep on anyones floor.

Conrad

Elizabeth Hoag-Stewart wrote:

>Hello All! 
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>I realize this is late notice, but I wanted to put it out for consideration...
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>My colleague Emily Weglian and I would like to put together a session for the 
>upcoming SHA meeting in January 2011 in Austin, TX (the deadline for submissions 
>is fast approaching). We want to explore various aspects of historical 
>neighborhood archaeology. We have been doing work on our college campus, 
>Cuyahoga Community College in Cleveland, investigating the changing urban 
>neighborhood from the 1860s to 1960s (when our campus was built). We envision 
>this session to cover a wide variety of topics, from results of the archaeology 
>itself to working with students, volunteers, community members, collective 
>community histories, historical outlines of community development and change, 
>etc. If you have interest, or would like more information, please contact me 
>off-list, and we will go from there.  
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>Our tentative title is:  Neighborhood Archaeologies:  Digging in our own 
>backyards.
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>Thanks!
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>Elizabeth Hoag, RPA    
>Adjunct Faculty
>Anthropology
>Cuyahoga Community College
>Cleveland OH
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