Past Meets Present

Public Interpretation, Outreach, and Partnering: an Introduction

Part I. Historic Sites and Museums
1. Delivering the Archaeological Message: the Louisbourg Experience
2. Interpreting a Vanished City: Translating Archaeological Discoveries into Public Exhibits
3. The Whole Site is the Artifact: Interpreting the St. John's Site, St. Mary's City, Maryland
4. Community-based Public Archaeology and Outreach at Port Arthur World Heritage Site, Tasmania

Part II. Ethnic Communities
5. Engaging Local Communities in Archaeology: Observations from a Maya site in Yucatán, Méxicolisa
6. "The Other from Within: A Commentary"
7. Archaeological Outreach and Indigenous Communities: A Personal Commentary
8. New Ways of Looking at the Past: Archaeological Education at the Houston Museum of Natural Science
9. Building Bridges through Public Anthropology in the Haudenosaunee Homeland
10. Metepenagiag: A First Nation of Three Thousand Years

Part III. Universities
11. Outport Archaeology: Community Archaeology in Newfoundland
12. Partnering with the Public: Community Outreach as a Component of College Archaeology Courses
13. Partners in Preservation: The Binghamton University Community Archaeology Program (CAP)
14. Archaeology to the Lay Public in Brazil: Three Experiences

Part IV. Public Schools
15. Public Archeology in the Baltimore Schools
16. The Captive versus non-captive: strategies for formal and informal archaeological outreach programs
17. Adventures in Archaeology at the Ontario Heritage Trust
18. Excavating the Past: 20 Years of Archaeology on Long Island, NY with Students
19.Transportation Collections: On the Road to Good Public Education

Part V. Public Agencies and Professional Organizations
20. Parks Canada and Public Archaeology in Atlantic Canada
21. Fostering Emotional and Intellectual Connections to Resource Meanings for Communities and Teachers in the National Park Service
22. Engaging the Public: CRM Policy and Archaeological