In this paper, we advocate a collaborative approach to investigating past human–environment interactions in southwest Madagascar. We do so by critically reflecting as a team on the development of the Morombe Archaeological Project, initiated in 2011 as a collaboration between an American archaeologist and the Vezo communities of the Velondriake Marine Protected Area. Our objectives are to assess our trajectory in building collaborative partnerships with diverse local, indigenous, and descendent communities and to provide concrete suggestions for the development of new collaborative projects in environmental archaeology. Through our Madagascar case study, we argue that contemporary environmental and economic challenges create an urgency to articulate and practice an inclusive environmental archaeology, and we propose that environmental archaeologists must make particular efforts to include local, indigenous, and descendent communities. Finally, we assert that full collaboration involves equal power sharing and mutual knowledge exchange and suggest an approach for critical self-evaluation of collaborative projects.

在本文中，我们提倡一种协作方法来调查马达加斯加西南部过去的人与环境之间的相互作用。为此，我们以团队的方式批判性地反思了Morombe考古项目的发展，该项目始于2011年，是美国考古学家与Velondriake海洋保护区的Vezo社区之间的合作。我们的目标是评估我们与不同的本地，土著和后代社区建立合作伙伴关系的轨迹，并为开发环境考古新的合作项目提供具体建议。通过我们的马达加斯加案例研究，我们认为当代环境和经济挑战造就了阐明和实践包容性环境考古的紧迫性，我们建议环境考古学家必须做出特别的努力，以包括当地，土著和后代社区。最后，我们断言，全面协作涉及平等的权力共享和相互知识交流，并提出了一种对协作项目进行批判性自我评估的方法。