@article{a2ff7b573b0044e286f3ab575d0f5e46,
title = "Contemporary relevance and community engagement",
abstract = "Is archaeology useful? Shannon Dawdy suggests that in the application of our knowledge to contemporary issues we find the utility in archaeological work. While I believe there are many ways archaeology is useful beyond this application, I will pull that thread, illustrating the applications of archaeology to contemporary issues at the interface of society and environment. I then examine a few of Dawdy's concerns about the failings of archaeology.",
author = "Margaret Nelson",
note = "Funding Information: The ASU research described in the first section of this paper is supported with an NSF Biocomplexity grant (SBE/CNH 0508001) and generous sharing of data by Bill Doelle, the New Mexico Laboratory of Anthropology, the University of Arizona Tree-Ring Laboratory, the Coalescent Community Data Base Project, and Crow Canyon Archaeological Center. Funding Information: We owe thanks to James A. Delle, Barbara Little, Michel L{\"o}wy, Carol McDavid, Laurent Olivier, Anne Pyburn, Melisa Salerno, Michael Shanks, Andr{\'e}s Zarankin. We must mention the institutional support of the Centre for Strategic Studies, World Archaeological Congress, S{\~a}o Paulo Science Foundation (FAPESP) and the Brazilian National Science Foundation (CNPq). Responsibility for the ideas is our own and we are solely responsible.",
year = "2009",
month = dec,
doi = "10.1017/S1380203809990092",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "16",
pages = "158--163",
journal = "Archaeological Dialogues",
issn = "1380-2038",
publisher = "Cambridge University Press",
number = "2",
}