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The Differing Forms of Public Archaeology: Where We Have Been, Where We Are Now, and Thoughts for the Future

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Ethics and Archaeological Praxis

Part of the book series: Ethical Archaeologies: The Politics of Social Justice ((ETHARCHAEOL,volume 1))

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This paper will describe the development of public archaeology from the mid-1970s to the present (late 2013), noting some key ethical benchmarks which occurred throughout this period with respect to public archaeology. This discussion will note some of the evolving relationships between archaeology as a public practice and archaeology as a profession. We will next propose a definition for public archaeology that is able to subsume what has become an extremely large and varied area of archaeological praxis. Finally, we will provide a broad description of the scope of contemporary practice, especially with respect to the dominant themes in the most recent work—collaboration, community, and one of the most recent venues for public archaeology practice, new social media.

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McDavid, C., Brock, T.P. (2015). The Differing Forms of Public Archaeology: Where We Have Been, Where We Are Now, and Thoughts for the Future. In: Gnecco, C., Lippert, D. (eds) Ethics and Archaeological Praxis. Ethical Archaeologies: The Politics of Social Justice, vol 1. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-1646-7_11

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