Public engagement is a significant feature of twenty-first-century archaeological practice. While more diverse audiences are connecting with the discipline in a multitude of ways, public perceptions of archaeology are still marred by stereotypes. Community excavations of ‘sites’ to discover ‘treasures’ which tell us about the ‘past’ overshadow other forms of public research output and hinder the potential of the discipline to contribute to contemporary society more widely. This paper proposes participatory augering as an active public engagement method that challenges assumptions about the nature of archaeological practice by focusing on interpretation at a landscape-scale. Through exploration of recent participatory augering research by the REFIT Project and Environmental Archaeologist Mike Allen, this paper demonstrates how the public can contribute to active archaeological research by exploring narratives of landscape change. Evaluation of the existing case studies reflects the potential of the approach to engage audiences with new archaeological methods and narratives which have the potential to transform perceptions of the discipline and, through knowledge exchange, drive community-led contributions to contemporary landscape management.

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参与式钻探：一种挑战考古学和景观变化观念的方法

公众参与是 21 世纪考古实践的一个重要特征。虽然更多不同的受众以多种方式与学科建立联系，但公众对考古学的看法仍然受到刻板印象的损害。社区挖掘“遗址”以发现“宝藏”，这些“宝藏”告诉我们“过去”的情况，这掩盖了其他形式的公共研究成果，并阻碍了该学科更广泛地为当代社会做出贡献的潜力。本文提出了参与式钻探作为一种积极的公众参与方法，通过关注景观尺度的解释来挑战对考古实践性质的假设。通过对 REFIT 项目和环境考古学家 Mike Allen 最近的参与式螺旋钻研究的探索，本文展示了公众如何通过探索景观变化的叙述来为积极的考古研究做出贡献。对现有案例研究的评估反映了这种方法的潜力，可以让观众参与新的考古方法和叙述，这些方法和叙述有可能改变对该学科的看法，并通过知识交流推动社区主导的对当代景观管理的贡献。