UMass Heritage Archaeology Program - UMHAP

06/26/2017

SHA Call for Papers, from UMHAP colleagues Marc Lorenc and Elena Sesma. Deadline in a few days!

Memory & Community-Based Archaeology
Society for Historical Archaeology, New Orleans, January 3-7, 2018.
Organizers: Marc Lorenc and Elena Sesma
Recent applications of community-based archaeology have engaged with various stakeholders from descendants to local members of the community, all with varying investment in the archaeological practice. The papers presented in this session focus on community-based archaeology as a theory and methodology that adds to the analysis of collective memory. Specifically viewing archaeology as craft (Gonzalez-Ruibal 2013), the papers explore how archaeology as both metaphor and practice allow for the excavation of memory through an engagement with materiality, temporality, and lieux de memoire (Nora 1989). Exploring the complex relationship of intersectionality to memory work (Mills and Walker 2008), presenters seek to engage the way community-based archaeology entangles with various processes of meaning making, commemoration, preservation, and education at archaeological sites. Using an interdisciplinary approach, presenters will tie in ethnographic archaeologies, oral history, archival research, and “dirt archaeology” to explore the relationship between memory and the archaeological praxis.

If you are interested in participating, please send abstracts (150 words) to [email protected] by Wednesday, June 28.

06/07/2017

This weekend in the Bahamas - continuing our community-based research in South Eleuthera!

06/06/2017

How Virginia's Enslaved Cooks Helped Invent American Cuisine

06/06/2017

GREAT BARRINGTON — The first African-American church built in Berkshire County is now in the hands of a nonprofit dedicated to restoring it and turning it into a center for local black history and culture.

05/07/2017

Experts estimate up to 7,000 bodies are buried on the University of Mississippi Medical Center campus.

08/24/2016

Illegally enslaved and then marooned on remote Tromlein Island for fifteen years, with only archaeology to tell their story

07/10/2016

Congrats to Marc Lorenc!

On Thursday, volunteers worked under project leader Marc Lorenc to excavate the site of the former home of James Still, "the Black Doctor of the Pines," who owned land in

06/20/2016

There aren't enough words to say thank you! To my wonderful friend, Elena, who has taken time out of her busy schedule to help me put Wemyss Bight Community Library on the web! You are awesome!

03/02/2016

Silent auction 'Archaeology in the Community Landscape Photography' hosted online at 32auctions.

02/23/2016

W. E. B. Du Bois Birthday Celebration

Photos from today's celebration in the library lobby. We needed more cake!

01/13/2016

Congrats to J. Cameron Monroe!

Archaeologists believe they have located part of a colonial-era plantation under Haiti's Sans-Souci Palace, which dates to the early nineteenth century.

http://archaeology.org/issues/202-1601/trenches/3938-trenches-haiti-sans-souci-palace

(Courtesy J. Cameron Monroe)

08/03/2015

Wrapping up several weeks of work on the beautiful island of Eleuthera today! But more importantly, Happy August Monday, when the Bahamas celebrates Emancipation Day (August 1, 1834)!