This post was originally published on ActiveHistory.ca
I have a confession. As much as I love being a historian, I am not a huge fan of spending most of my day sitting at a desk reading. Some days I am pretty sure that I can feel my fat cells multiplying and the muscle cells slowly decaying. Most days I long to literally practice active – blood-flowing – history. About seven ago, I tried to remedy this challenge by becoming involved in archaeology. After a couple of brief glimpses into an archaeologist’s world, I found myself challenged by the practices of the discipline and increasingly by the way in which the programs of which I was a part engaged the public. Continue reading “Hands-on History: Are the archaeologists leading the way to a new mode of public engagement?”
Thomas Peace 