Abstract
To mark history, governments authorize the erecting of markers, signs on the landscape meant to inform. While historical markers have a long tradition for identifying places with significant events and people, there has been an expansion on what and how to mark places and their heritage. Signs capture the attention and provide information for those interested in learning about where they are at the moment. They are in-situ teaching tools, open to anyone able to interpret the heritage for broad audiences, and can encourage places for cosmopolitanism, canopies for people to learn about the past and each other.
Highlights
Do historical markers do more than provide information?Informal learning at heritage sites, or learning via participation at public places of historical or archaeological significance, offers the potential for deeper engagement with the past by furthering understandings on how the present came to be
Archaeological insights into the past and social complexities can help to recover such places for the public, and archaeologists can facilitate the fostering of positive social interactions at heritage sites
Since people – within particular circumstances – have created such places, this article asserts that archaeologists, with their archives of insights into coexistence and social differences, can encourage the creation of cosmopolitan canopies via empirical, scientifically accumulated insights into the past represented for the present
Summary
Governments authorize the erecting of markers, signs on the landscape meant to inform. While historical markers have a long tradition for identifying places with significant events and people, there has been an expansion on what and how to mark places and their heritage. Signs capture the attention and provide information for those interested in learning about where they are at the moment. They are in-situ teaching tools, open to anyone able to interpret the heritage for broad audiences, and can encourage places for cosmopolitanism, canopies for people to learn about the past and each other
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