Scientific creativity and creative science: Looking at the future of archaeological storytelling

McKee, Larry; Galle, Jillian

doi:10.1007/bf03374308

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“…Archaeology is a clear choice for telling stories of the past [McKee & Galle, 2000;Scott-Ireton & Gaimster, 2012]. Life and Death on the Tuapeka Goldfields illustrates bioarchaeological research using an osteobiographical approach which focuses on individuals.…”

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Life and Death on the Tuapeka Goldfields — stakeholder input for a community museum's bioarchaeology-based exhibit

Parker¹,

Longnecker²

2023

Journal of Science Communication

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This practice insight describes community consultation and creation of an exhibit that was installed in a local museum to share findings from research involving excavations of historic cemeteries. Two individuals who had been buried in unmarked sites in historic cemeteries in the town of Lawrence, in the Otago region of New Zealand were exhumed for bioarchaeological research that included biochemical methods. Results were combined with cultural and environmental information from the Otago goldrush era to reconstruct lives of these settlers and tell their stories in the exhibit described here. Community values about exhibit representations related to human remains were explored through 16 semi-structured stakeholder interviews. Interviewees overwhelmingly but not unanimously supported the creation of an exhibit about this research. Interviewees recommended things to exclude from the exhibit (human remains or images of them) as well as information and objects to include. Information was compiled from multiple sources, including: existing bioarchaeological research findings; interviews with descendant groups, community, and other stakeholders; and historical archives. Information from these multiple sources was combined to create osteobiographies of two individuals — a woman and a Chinese journeyman — who had lived in Lawrence during the goldrush period (1850–1910). These osteobiographies formed the basis of an exhibit that was created and installed in a community museum in the town where their graves were located.

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Life and Death on the Tuapeka Goldfields — stakeholder input for a community museum's bioarchaeology-based exhibit

Parker¹,

Longnecker²

2023

Journal of Science Communication

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“…Si bien esta perspectiva ha sido desarrollada en varias investigaciones de arqueología histórica (Beaudry, 1998;Cook, 1998;De Cunzo, 1998;Praetzellis & Praetzellis, 1998;Ryder, 1998;Yamin, 1998;Zarankin & Senatore, 2013), también ha recibido críticas. Algunas de las más importantes sugieren que la perspectiva de storytelling no debería sustituir al método tradicional de conocimiento, y que la misma hace correr el riesgo de que el público no especializado confunda estas historias ficticias con los hechos reales (Lewis, 2000;McKee & Galle, 2000).…”

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Infancia, género e historias de vida: una niña Selk’nam en la Misión Nuestra Señora de la Candelaria (Tierra del Fuego, Argentina, Siglos XIX-XX)

Rigone¹

2018

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La misión salesiana Nuestra Señora de La Candelaria funcionó en Río Grande, Tierra del Fuego, Argentina, entre fines del siglo XIX y principios del siglo XX. Fue diseñada como una institución de reforma, que procuraba “civilizar” a los indígenas selk’nam. En este contexto, el foco estuvo puesto en los niños, en tanto se consideraba que tenían mayor potencial de transformación por haber estado menos tiempo en contacto con sus tradiciones. El objetivo de este artículo es discutir las formas en que el mundo material de la misión modeló las relaciones y las prácticas sociales de los niños selk’nam. A partir del abordaje de documentos históricos y el trazado de múltiples historias de vida, propongo construir una narrativa ficcional de carácter histórico sobre una única protagonista.

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Digital Practice as Meaning Making in Archaeology

Beale¹,

Reilly

2017

Internet Archaeol.

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Scientific creativity and creative science: Looking at the future of archaeological storytelling

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Life and Death on the Tuapeka Goldfields — stakeholder input for a community museum's bioarchaeology-based exhibit

Life and Death on the Tuapeka Goldfields — stakeholder input for a community museum's bioarchaeology-based exhibit

Infancia, género e historias de vida: una niña Selk’nam en la Misión Nuestra Señora de la Candelaria (Tierra del Fuego, Argentina, Siglos XIX-XX)

Digital Practice as Meaning Making in Archaeology

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