ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the importance of evaluating public archaeology programs in order to improve them and make them more collaborative and bottom-up in approach. Some public archaeologists have taken a bottom-up approach by putting the goals of their publics on equal footing with traditional research goals. The Farnsley-Kaufman House archaeology project was a bottomup program because community members helped them preserve the house and establish a relationship with the school. Because Portland is a community of nearly 4,000 people, developing a bottom-up collaborative approach to public archaeology was more challenging than the program at the Farnsley-Kaufman House. Thus, the potential of public archaeology to be a vehicle for a transformative archaeology can not be ignored. The point is that not all public archaeology is transformative, but bottom-up, collaborative public projects and the work that public archaeologists do regarding archaeological literacy are important in the endeavor to make archaeology more transformative.
