The time is here for archaeologists to step up to the role of enabling communities to have a meaningful collaboration with our research. The papers in this volume exemplify this ability for archeologists to full engage with descendant communities to create projects that are applicable to the people whose identity is impacted by our work This paper takes the opportunity to comb through the methods presented in these case studies and develop a set of criteria by which the goal of community engagement can be had.

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建立基于社区的非洲侨民考古方法论：案例研究的思考

现在是考古学家发挥作用的时候了，使社区能够与我们的研究进行有意义的合作。本卷中的论文举例说明了考古学家能够充分参与后代社区的这种能力，以创建适用于身份受我们工作影响的人的项目 本文借此机会梳理了这些案例研究中提出的方法并开发了一个一套标准，通过这些标准可以实现社区参与的目标。