Experiments in Crowd-funding Community Archaeology

Citation

Bonacchi C, Pett D, Bevan A & Keinan-Schoonbaert A (2015) Experiments in Crowd-funding Community Archaeology. Journal of Community Archaeology and Heritage, 2 (3), pp. 184-198. https://doi.org/10.1179/2051819615Z.00000000041

Abstract
This article reviews existing case studies in the ‘crowd-funding’ of community archaeology, as well as offering preliminary results from a small-scale experiment conducted alongside the wider crowd-sourcing efforts of the MicroPasts project ( http://micropasts.org ). In so-doing, it also considers the possible role of a hybrid reward- and donation-based model for micro-financing collaborative archaeological research. The article concludes with a summary of the key lessons drawn from experiences of crowd-funding archaeology so far, and highlights their particular implications for community archaeology.

Keywords
digital heritage; community archaeology; crowd-funding; non-grant financing; sustainability; donor motivations; archaeological research; heritage;

Journal
Journal of Community Archaeology and Heritage: Volume 2, Issue 3