Interpretation for Archeologists   5. Personal and Professional
Responsibilities   Distance Learning   (photo) Party of visitors
in north room of Casa Grande with Archeologist Alden Hayes in
1957.  Archeologist Alden Hayes conducts a party of visitors on
a tour of Casa Grande in 1957. (George W. Gottmer)
Interpretation helps archeologists to fulfill their professional
and ethical responsibilities through facilitating opportunities
for the public to connect to the meanings of archeological
resources. Rather than storing the results of archeological
research in the library and collections facility where very few
will hear about it, interpretation makes known what we know
about the past and how we came to know it. It provides
archeologists with opportunities to make creative and
interesting contributions to the public’s experience of a place.
It educates people on what archeology is and what archeologists
do, and it leads them to understand the purposes and meanings of
archeological work to their own lives.  Th