@article {9639,
	title = {A Practical Guide to Planning and Conducting an Interdisciplinary Archaeological Research Project: Lessons Learned from SCAPE},
	journal = {Canadian Journal of Archaeology/Journal canadien d{\textquoteright}arch{\'e}ologie},
	volume = {31},
	year = {2007},
	pages = {48-64},
	abstract = {<p>The purpose of this paper is to share some practical tips and lessons learned during the course of SCAPE (Study of Cultural Adaptations within the Prairies Ecozone) with researchers interested in organizing or participating in a large-scale interdisciplinary archaeological project. Archaeologists, Earth scientists, and paleoecologists were involved in SCAPE from its inception. Interdisciplinary communication proved a key element to success of the project. Even when participating researchers come from home disciplines considered to be \&quot;inherently interdisciplinary\&quot; developing such communication was not a simple matter. Many beneficial mechanisms were developed for fostering such communication. Meeting together frequently, attending conferences as a group, and living and working together in the field proved particularly helpful. Unifying systems were developed for: collecting spatial data, archiving and cataloguing disparate data-sets in a GIS, sharing these data amongst participating researchers during the project, and managing analyses of all data collected in the field.</p>},
	author = {Garry L. Running IV and B.A. Nicholson and Matthew Boyd and Dion Wiseman and Sylvia Nicholson}
}
