ABSTRACT
Archaeology combines many of the modes of active and integrated learning that arc the focus of modern educational theory. At the same time, an enhanced popular perception of the importance of archaeology can only benefit a profession long starved of public funding, and whose major resource is diminishing at an alarming rate in the face of rapid urban and suburban development in many parts of the globe. Yet it is only recently that there has been a coordinated effort on the part of archaeologists, at least in North America, to encourage appreciation of the past through participation in excavation, analysis, and heritage conservation on the part of the public in general, and prcunivcrsity students in particular.
