Archaeology in a New Light: Interpreting Indigenous History in Sea of Pilgrims
The Public Historian
; 44(4):147-168, 2022.
Article
in English
| ProQuest Central | ID: covidwho-2098876
ABSTRACT
Plimoth Patuxet Museums is known for its living history sites depicting the seventeenth-century Pilgrim settlement of Plymouth and the Wampanoag settlement of Patuxet. With the 400th anniversary of Mayflower’s arrival, the museum recommitted itself to presenting archaeology. Because of the challenges of publicly interpreting archaeology, the broad swath of time covered by archaeology, and the reality that most guests know little about either Indigenous history or archaeology, integrating archaeological programming into the living history format proved challenging, exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic. By employing a multipronged physical and digital approach, the authors have found some success in bringing a more nuanced understanding of archaeology to the institution’s stakeholders.
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Databases of international organizations
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ProQuest Central
Type of study:
Prognostic study
Language:
English
Journal:
The Public Historian
Year:
2022
Document Type:
Article
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