Community Engaged Archaeology

In 2023, as part of the Sakonnet History Project, Kevin Smith partnered with the Little Compton Historical Society to study pre-Colonial stone tools and ceramics in the Society’s collections as well as those found by Little Compton residents over the past 75 years. Nearly thirty people shared what they had found in the Little Compton area in order to gain a better understanding of their collections. In this talk, Kevin Smith will share what we learned from working with the community and how it helps to illuminate 13,000+ years of life in the area that is today called Little Compton.
A museum professional for more than 40 years, Kevin coordinated research and managed global anthropological and archaeological collections at the Buffalo Museum of Science and at Brown University’s Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology. He curated and co-curated more than 50 exhibitions there; has contributed to exhibition design, planning, and content creation at the National Museum of Iceland; and is engaged in interdisciplinary research projects in Canada and across the North Atlantic. He is currently a Research Associate with the Arctic Studies Center at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of Natural History and with the State University of New York at Albany’s Department of Anthropology. He teaches part-time at Bridgewater State University and is a co-founder and partner at Osprey Heritage Consultants, LLC.

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This is great. Thanks. Its gratifying to see LCHS reproducing these very informative videos. Membership money well spent.