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Public Archaeology Via Skyscraper: Outcome and Experience

Year: 2016

Type: article

Abstract: A recent archaeology awareness campaign projected Public Service Announcements from the top of a city skyscraper. These 30-second videos featured animated 3D artifact reconstructions alongside an archaeology-themed message. This was not just public archaeology done in an unusual way but public archaeology conducted toward an unusually broad end: the processes involved in creating the PSAs served many masters, not just archaeology’s needs. This paper reports on this reflexive, dialogic, public archaeology case study where communities make use of the past for their own needs in the present.

Source: AP Online Journal in Public Archaeology

DOI: 10.23914/ap.v2i0.14

Authors: Patrice L. Jeppson, Glen Muschio, Hannah Winograd, Matthew Haas, Geoffrey Oxholm, Ko Nishino

Institution: Drexel University

Language: English

Topic: Archaeology and Cultural Heritage

Subfield: Archeology (arts and humanities)

Field: Arts and Humanities

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: diamond

Funder: National Science Foundation

Award: The 3D Colonial Philadelphia Project -- Digital Restoration of Thin-Shell Objects for Historical Archeological Research and Interpretation