CROWDFUNDING OF ARCHAEOLOGY
Channel: European Association of Archaeologists
Date: 2020-11-23

This presentation presents issue known as „crowdfunding of archaeology” and possibilities of use it for financing archaeological studies and preservation of cultural heritage. A big part of it will also focus on influence of crowd-funded archaeological projects of the archaeology promotion and social and economical development. On beginning I will focus on an idea of crowdfunding. I will show short history and fast development from an idea to multimillion business. Next I will present crowdfunding community in Poland. After this introduction I will pass to case studies and I will present several interesting projects realized thanks to crowdfunding. Among others done in Poland “Unusual burial ground of old Slavs” and “Erem’s mission - Egypt - Examination of tombs from 4,000 years”. According to “case studies” methodology presentation, all presented projects will be able to be compared. In the last part I will compare characteristic of each part of them between all projects and that will be base for conclusions. Three main highlights of this presentation are: an influence of crowd-funded archaeological projects to an archeology and heritage promotion; opportunity to involve society in work of discovery, preservation and promotion of cultural heritage; research on the possibility to finance archeological works from crowd-funding sources.


Author(s): Kubiatowski, Zbigniew (The Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology Polish Academy of Sciences)