Synopses & Reviews
In creating interpretive strategies for maritime sites, archaeologists and resource managers often are required to think creatively to overcome challenges and problems. These issues include interpreting sites in inaccessible locations and extremely deep water, enabling and controlling access to fragile sites and restricted areas, monitoring visitor behavior, making information interesting to a wide audience, and creating opportunities for public engagement, among other concerns. Meeting Challenges presents cutting-edge interpretation and public education strategies for maritime resources, both on land and underwater, with emphasis on solving the unique problems often associated with presenting these fragile, limited-access sites as heritage attractions and on developing effective visitation and civic engagement opportunities. The examples presented ideally can serve as models for resource managers, archaeologists engaged in interpretation, and site administrators. This volume brings together a diverse group of heritage professionals to discuss issues they've encountered and to present ideas and case studies for adapting, improvising, and overcoming them.
Synopsis
This book offers interpretation and public education strategies for maritime resources, emphasizing problems involved with presenting fragile, limited-access sites as heritage attractions and developing effective visitation and civic engagement opportunities.
About the Author
Della A. Scott-Ireton is
Table of Contents
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction
Section 1: Challenges in Public Access and Engagement
Chapter 1. Toward Multivocality in Pubic Archeology: Public Empowerment through Collaboration
John H. Jameson, Jr.
Chapter 2. Connecting the Wrecks: A Case Study in Conveying the Importance of Submerged Cultural Heritage through a Scaled Outreach Approach
Alexis Catsambis and Kate Morrand
Chapter 3. Out of Sight, Out of Mind, and At Risk: The United Kingdom Public's Engagement with Heritage
Christopher J. Underwood
Chapter 4. Connecting People to the Past: An Ethnographic Approach to Interpretation and Recreation
Irina T. Sorset
Chapter 5. Management of Submerged Cultural Heritage: Public Outreach Examples as a Result of the Section 106 Process
Christopher Horrell
Chapter 6. Shifting Sand: A Model for Facilitating Public Assistance in Coastal Archaeology
Justin J. Bensley and Victor T. Mastone
Chapter 7. "Public" and "the Public" in Italian Underwater Archaeology: A Sardinian Perspective
Massimiliano Secci
Chapter 8. The Success of the South Carolina Sport Diver Archaeology Management Program
Ashley M. Deming
Chapter 9. Maritime Heritage Outreach and Education: East Carolina University's Engagement with International Public Communities in Africa and the Caribbean
Lynn Harris
Chapter 10. The Florida Panhandle Shipwreck Trail: Promoting Heritage Tourism in the Digital Age
Lindsay S. Smith
Chapter 11. Sailing the SSEAS: A New Program for Public Engagement in Underwater Archaeology
Della A. Scott-Ireton
Section 2: Interpreting Challenging Sites
Chapter 12. No Visibility, No Artifacts, No Problem?: Challenges Associated with Presenting Buried Sites and Inaccessible Shipwrecks to the Public
Amanda M. Evans
Chapter 13. A Monumental Distance: Education and Outreach from the Most Remote Archipelago on Earth
Kelly Gleason
Chapter 14. Interpretation of Maritime Heritage at National Marine Sanctuaries: Using a Maritime Cultural Landscape Approach
Bruce G. Terrell
Chapter 15. Managing Historic Shipwrecks in Argentina: Challenges to Reach the Public
Dolores Elkin
Chapter 16. Difficult Heritage: Interpreting Underwater Battlefield Sites
Jennifer F. McKinnon
Chapter 17. Challenges as Stepping Stones: Mexico's Experience in Maritime Heritage Interpretation
Pilar Luna Erreguerena
Chapter 18. Making Shipwrecks Celebrities: Using the National Register, Shipwreck Preserves, Documentary Filmmaking, and Interdisciplinary Projects for Shipwreck Preservation
Joseph W. Zarzynski, Samuel S. Bowser, John Farrell, and Peter Pepe