Books by Cameron C Turley
Engaging Conservation: Collaboration across Disciplines, 2017
Between 1995 and 2015, the Mugello Valley Archaeological Project (MVAP) excavated the Etruscan si... more Between 1995 and 2015, the Mugello Valley Archaeological Project (MVAP) excavated the Etruscan site of Poggio Colla. Poggio Colla is located about 35 km northeast of Florence, Italy at the juncture of the Mugello basin and the Val di Sieve. Twenty-one years of excavation at the site have revealed evidence of a hilltop sanctuary and associated settlement and industrial zones, likely inhabited from at least the 7th through 2nd centuries BCE. The Mugello Valley Archaeological Project (MVAP) has operated a long-running field school at Poggio Colla, and education is a core component of the project's mission. The field school has provided generations of students with instruction in archaeological fieldwork theory and methodology. The project has also been a valuable training resource for both conservators and allied cultural heritage professionals. Poggio Colla has offered pre-program and graduate level conservation students essential hands-on training in the field. Perhaps equally importantly, it has facilitated awareness of and promoted the value of archaeological conservation among the many non-conservation students who have participated in the project. By integrating conservation into the field school's academic program and facilitating collaboration between conservation staff and archaeology students, MVAP has helped to raise awareness of archaeological conservation, to model successful collaboration between conservators and archaeologists, and to advocate for the value of cultural heritage preservation. The culmination of 21 years of excavation at the MVAP field school presents an opportunity to reflect on the mechanics, challenges, successes and legacies of archaeological conservation education at Poggio Colla.
Conference Presentations by Cameron C Turley
Greenland Science Week, 2019
Climate change has the world turning its eyes to the Arctic. Neocolonialism looms as other nation... more Climate change has the world turning its eyes to the Arctic. Neocolonialism looms as other nations increasingly see Greenland as a site for expanded exploitation. Greenland is host to numerous foreign-funded, foreign-led scientific projects. Historically, science has played a key role in colonial projects. Despite this world-wide attention, community members are only recently engaged when projects are conducted, when results are published, and are rarely consulted when scientific projects are designed. Archaeologists are increasingly engaging in community-based, collaborative research to develop frameworks for co-production and dissemination of knowledge. These efforts offer correctives to disenfranchising research practices and neocolonialist science, make archaeologists accountable to communities, and reposition communities as active producers of their historical, present, and future narratives. Destabilizing the privileged position of Western academics results in a more ethical and relevant archaeology. In 2017, the Greenland National Museum and Archives issued an open letter to foreign researchers exhorting them to consider designing community-based, collaborative projects. In 2018, the Arctic Horizons Final Report recommended expanded community engagement and financial support for promoting Indigenous scholarship. In 2019, archaeologists Cameron C. Turley (PhD candidate, City University of New York) and Aká Bendtsen (MA candidate, Ilisimatusarfik) launched the Alluitsoq Project.
The Alluitsoq Project was designed by Turley and Bendtsen as a community-based and collaborative research program to investigate life at the former Moravian mission of Lichtenau in South Greenland, to contribute to conversations on Arctic Indigeneity, and to contribute to millennial-scale studies of climate adaptations. The project supports multiple students researching aspect of Greenlandic life that range from ethnic identity production to changing human-environment relationships over the last few centuries. Their efforts during the winter and summer of 2019 yielded large archaeological collections, ethnographic and oral history interviews with community elders, a significant expansion in public outreach, and mitigation of the loss of cultural heritage from coastal erosion. In the poster, the authors present preliminary results from 2019, followed by a brief discussion of the project’s broader impacts. Finally, as the project is funded through 2022, this presentation is also an open invitation for community members to visit excavations at Alluitsoq during future summers.
Papers by Cameron C Turley
Ge-conservacion
Engaging conservation. Collaboration across disciplines Nina Owczarek , Molly Gleeson y Lynn Gran... more Engaging conservation. Collaboration across disciplines Nina Owczarek , Molly Gleeson y Lynn Grant London: Archetype Publications, 2018ISBN: 9781909492554 Dimensiones: 210 x 297mmPáginas: 308
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Books by Cameron C Turley
Conference Presentations by Cameron C Turley
The Alluitsoq Project was designed by Turley and Bendtsen as a community-based and collaborative research program to investigate life at the former Moravian mission of Lichtenau in South Greenland, to contribute to conversations on Arctic Indigeneity, and to contribute to millennial-scale studies of climate adaptations. The project supports multiple students researching aspect of Greenlandic life that range from ethnic identity production to changing human-environment relationships over the last few centuries. Their efforts during the winter and summer of 2019 yielded large archaeological collections, ethnographic and oral history interviews with community elders, a significant expansion in public outreach, and mitigation of the loss of cultural heritage from coastal erosion. In the poster, the authors present preliminary results from 2019, followed by a brief discussion of the project’s broader impacts. Finally, as the project is funded through 2022, this presentation is also an open invitation for community members to visit excavations at Alluitsoq during future summers.
Papers by Cameron C Turley
The Alluitsoq Project was designed by Turley and Bendtsen as a community-based and collaborative research program to investigate life at the former Moravian mission of Lichtenau in South Greenland, to contribute to conversations on Arctic Indigeneity, and to contribute to millennial-scale studies of climate adaptations. The project supports multiple students researching aspect of Greenlandic life that range from ethnic identity production to changing human-environment relationships over the last few centuries. Their efforts during the winter and summer of 2019 yielded large archaeological collections, ethnographic and oral history interviews with community elders, a significant expansion in public outreach, and mitigation of the loss of cultural heritage from coastal erosion. In the poster, the authors present preliminary results from 2019, followed by a brief discussion of the project’s broader impacts. Finally, as the project is funded through 2022, this presentation is also an open invitation for community members to visit excavations at Alluitsoq during future summers.