Abstract
This article discusses how Co-Principal Investigators that designed and executed the Estate Little Princess Archaeology Project (ELPAP) came together as a community, to demonstrate how such a formation within the discipline, with all its ups and downs, facilitates the skills needed to conduct community archaeology. By using the ELPAP as a case study, this article provides a multiscale examination of the ELPAP, expanding the discourse on community archaeology to include community building practices among archaeologists, between organizations, and with communities impacted by archaeological work.
Highlights
Most literature on community-engaged archaeology, rightly so, focuses on the relationship between the archaeologists and the communities impacted by archaeological work
It is an example of how historic preservation and archaeology in the United States overlooks the needs of Black people when it comes to our heritage sites
The Estate Little Princess Archaeology Project (ELPAP) is an attempt of a group of Black archaeologists to help an African diasporic community reclaim a portion of its heritage
Summary
Most literature on community-engaged archaeology, rightly so, focuses on the relationship between the archaeologists and the communities impacted by archaeological work. International Journal of Historical Archaeology demonstrates that collaboration among the co-Principal Investigators (PIs) is important for successful community collaboration to occur. Community archaeology is the practice of using archaeological methods to address issues of importance in collaboration with the community, broadly defined. In order to truly understand what community archaeology entails, it is important to define community. Though a community is one unit, an archaeological site generally has more than one community that can lay historical claims to the site. As co-PIs, came together as a community we hope to demonstrate how such a formation, with all its ups and downs, facilitates the skills needed to conduct community archaeology
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