Not limited to any particular region (Geographic Keyword)

DOCUMENT Full-Text Francis McManamon.

This document describes a set of presentations and forum discussion at the international cultural heritage conference, "Why Does the Past Matter?," held 3 - 7 May 2011 at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst, MA. The session abstract and list of participants follows. In all but a few parts of the world the archaeological record is invisible to most people. Usually, the remains of past dwellings and other structures, places of activity, ceremony, manufacturing, and sport are covered...

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This project includes a collection of documents, presentations, images, and other information related to how archaeological resources contribute to the appearence of the world around us. A small percentage of archaeological monuments and sites are strikingly scenic and project themselves into our view. Examples of such obvious landscape features include: Egyptian and Mesoamerian pyramids and their associated building complexes; monumental earthen architecture such as Monks Mound at Cahokia...