Transforming Heritage Practice in the 21st Century

PART 1. Public Archaeology at the Intersections of Heritage and Community.- 1. Creating Opportunities and Managing Expectations: Evaluating Community Archaeology in Ireland.- 2. A tale of the unexpected: a heritage encounter with a new target audience and the sociocultural effects experienced by this community of participants.- 3. Community archaeology in Eastern Europe, An example from the Republic of Moldova.- 4. Heritage and Public Archaeology in South-western Nigeria .- 5. Barriers to community archaeology: reviewing the legal heritage frameworks within the South African context.- 6. Community archaeology can be 'a piece of cake': Key ingredients for community-based approaches.- 7. Ancient Maya House and Forest Garden: Shared Connections.- 8. Heritages in Conflict: Interpreting Controversial History with Community Engagement.- 9. Increasing Heritage Awareness through Community Participation: African-Brazilian community participation in a diversity context.- PART 2. Catalysts for Inclusive Heritage at Cultural Landscapes and Parks.- 10. Shipwrecks and Sport Divers: Florida's Programs in Participatory Preservation Underwater.- 11. Time Traveling in Delaware State Parks: Some Strategies for a Public Participatory Program.- 12. From Performance to Participation: Fostering a sense of shared heritage through archaeology at the Presidio of San Francisco.- 13. Popular Memories and Imagined Futures at the President's House Site: A case study juxtaposing public policy and 'the public' in the determination of archaeological site significance.- 14. Archaeological Commitment to Participation from the Local to the International: Discovering the El Pilar Community.- 15. The Value of Biodiversity Conservation in the Process of Making a Historic Park.- 16. Folklore as landscape biography in the interpretation of cultural landscapes: Great Zimbabwe and North York Moors National Park (England).- 17. Promoting Descendant Communities in Urban Community Archaeology: A study of

John H. Jameson is a former senior archaeologist and interpretation program lead in the U.S. National Park Service. He is Assistant Editor for the Journal of Community Archaeology and Heritage (JCAH) and serves on the editorial board of the Journal of European Archaeology (JEA). He also acted as Head, World Archaeological Congress (WAC-8) Editing Team. He was appointed to the Scientific Committee of both 2nd and 3nd International Conferences on Best Practices in World Heritage. He is an active member of ICOMOS, serving on the International Committee on Interpretation and Presentation of Cultural Heritage Sites (ICIP) and the International Scientific Committee on Archaeological Heritage Management (ICAHM). He is a consultant to the 12,000 Year History Park project in South Carolina, involving archaeological administration, grant applications, project management, public interpretation training, and collections management tasks. His publications include: Presenting Archaeology to the Public: Digging for Truths (AltaMira,1997), Ancient Muses: Archaeology and the Arts (University of Alabama Press, 2003), The Reconstructed Past: Reconstructions in the Public Interpretation of Archaeology and History (AltaMira, 2004), Unlocking the Past: Celebrating Historical Archaeology in North America (UPF, 2005), Past Meets Present: Archaeologists Partnering with Museum Curators, Teachers and Community Groups (Springer, 2007); Out of the Blue: Public Interpretation of Maritime Cultural Resources (Springer, 2007); The Heritage Reader (Routledge, 2008), and Training and Practice for Modern Day Archaeologists (Springer, 2013).



Sergiu Musteata is an archaeologist from the Republic of Moldova. He is Professor at the History and Geography Faculty of the "Ion Creanga" State Pedagogical University of Moldova. He holds his Ph.D. at the History Faculty of "Al.I. Cuza" University, Ia i, Romania. Sergiu Musteata is former Fulbright research fellow at University of Maryland,

"The next dimension is to develop heightened clarity on the goals of community/public archaeology, the metrics by which successful impacts will be measured, and the techniques that can be used to measure them. The next dimension will take us beyond archaeology as it was to archaeology as it must become. For that, the essential contribution from Jameson and Musteat a 's book is that it delivers a capstone to past publications and in so doing, begins to make the next dimension conceivable." (Peter G. Gould, American Antiquity, Vol. 85 (3), 2020)

"The papers in the volume highlight that public involvement has a two-way benefit and that increased stakeholder involvement, and power-sharing mechanisms that encourage greater participation by lay people, benefit archaeology and heritage practice in multiple ways." (Antiquity, Vol. 94, 2020)