Public archaeology/CRM (Other Keyword)
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Laws directed at protecting archeological sites frequently target those located on State or federally owned property, but many sites are located on private property. These sites represent a significant portion of the identified sites in many States, meaning that large numbers of our nation's archeological resources are not protected. The Kentucky Archaeological Registry was created to address this problem. Modeled on The Nature Conservancy's nationally successful program for protecting...
Mining Data, Protecting Historic Landscapes, and Understanding the Past (2016)
Forty years ago Bill Lipe dared archaeologists to fundamentally change their views about archaeological practice. We were like miners, exploiting a non-renewable resource. If we were to have a future we would need to practice conservation as well as salvage, and education as well as preservation. Lipe published his 1974 Kiva article just as CRM and modern government archaeology were coming into being. Today, we live in a fundamentally different archaeological culture: there are four times as...