Nevertheless, the citizen science movement, genealogy trendand crowdsourcing of archaeological tasks have demonstratedthat there is an enormous aptitude and interest in contributing toarchaeological research, if there are clear paths to engagementand connections to contemporary values, questions, and interests
Did they do any surveys about why people weren’t engaged with the data? Not sure how it works in archaeology, but in psychology, we do sort of exit interviews, when a program or intervention isn’t going as planned, to see how it went wrong.