Cultural Resources and Heritage Management (Other Keyword)

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Approaches, Rationales, and Challenges to Maintaining Site Inventory in the National Parks (2018)
DOCUMENT Citation Only David Gadsby.

For over a century, the National Park Service (NPS) has worked to preserve natural and cultural resources in more than four hundred park units for future generations. In addition, the National Historic Preservation Act (NHPA) requires all federal agencies to maintain inventories of their historic properties. For decades, the NPS has relied upon three inventory systems: The List of Classified Structures, the Cultural Landscapes Inventory (CLI), and the Archeological Sites Management Information...


Archaeo-Tourism and Heritage Policies: What Works, What Doesn’t, and How to Move Forward—Case Studies from Belize and the United States (2023)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Pamela Pascali. Kirsten Green Mink. Jaime Awe.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Archaeological sites in the United States are governed by a complex network of state and federal regulations, sovereign tribal governments, and private landowners. This often leads to difficulties managing access to heritage sites and their research potential. In contrast, extant literature describes the efforts of the Belize Institute of Archaeology and...


Archaeological Collaboration in Northwest Wyoming: Recording BLM Sites with College Students (2019)
DOCUMENT Citation Only J. Gregory Smith. Kierson Crume.

This is an abstract from the "Collaborative and Community-Based Archaeology" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This paper reports on a developing collaboration in northwest Wyoming between Northwest College (NWC) and the Bureau of Land Management, Cody Field Office (BLM). The collaboration began as an informal partnership where college students visited prehistoric archaeological sites on BLM land as part of an extra credit field trip. This past fall,...


Archaeological Collecting in Cultural Context: A Localized Study of Looting and the News (2019)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Nina Schreiner.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Many field archaeologists have firsthand experience encountering locals who practice site looting and artifact collection. These globally widespread problems are addressed in professional ethics statements and legislature at international, federal, state, and local levels. Publications in archaeological journals and heritage-related news sources have...


Archaeological Heritage Management in Mexico: Current Panorama (2019)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Jorge Rios Allier.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This poster examines the innovations of different finance mechanisms for cultural heritage management (FMCRM) in support of open archaeological sites at the subnational level in Mexico in the last few years. The federal states (subnational level) that have implemented these policies for at least ten years have had diverse designs, implementations, and results....


Archaeological Heritage Market and Museums in the Dominican Republic (2018)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Arlene Alvarez. Corinne Hofman.

The first Dominican heritage legislation indicates that there were private collecting practices of local archaeological materials already by the end of the 19th Century. Heritage museums formed archaeological collections with donations or purchases from private collectors who often depended on individuals that made a business out of locating sites with the desired pieces. The continued institutionalization of collections without context that gave rise to several museums has contributed to the...


Archaeological Investigations in El Paraíso. A Late Preceramic Architectural Complex in Lima – Peru (2018)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Jose Narvaez.

El Paraíso architectonic complex is located in the lower section of the Chillon River Valley, less than 2 km from the Pacific Ocean, in Lima, the capital city of Peru. It is composed by 14 structures, or huacas, distributed in an area of 47 hectares, in a rural place named Chuquitanta. The site is recognized as one of the earliest expressions of monumental architecture and social complexity in Peru since the works of Frédéric Engel in the 1960’s and Jeffrey Quilter in the 1980’s. Since 2015, the...


Archaeological National Historic Landmarks in the United States (2023)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Thadra Stanton.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. For over 60 years the United States National Historic Landmarks (NHL) program has designated 2,600 sites across the country for their national significance. But the number of archaeological NHLs is much fewer than historic NHLs. This paper is an overview of the current archaeological NHLs and the diversity of sites represented. I will provide some insight...


Archaeological Resource Protection: Challenges to Federal Enforcement of Antiquity Law among Land Managing Agencies (2018)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Gregory Haverstock.

The Archaeological Resources Protection Act (ARPA) of 1979 was partially intended to address shortcomings in previous federal antiquities law. While the act corrected constitutional deficiencies with the Antiquities Act, federal land management agencies still grapple with a number of practical, cultural, and institutional barriers in carrying out archaeological law enforcement. This paper examines issues facing ARPA enforcement from the perspective of a land management agency. Case studies and...


Archaeological Salvage at Pockoy, a Late Archaic Period Shell Ring Site on the Botany Bay Heritage Preserve, Charleston County, South Carolina (2019)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Karen Smith. Meg Gaillard. Sean Taylor.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Coastal property owners and managers face a range of ever-growing threats, from frequent flooding to wholesale land loss, as the effects of anthropogenically induced climate change come home to roost. The problem is particularly acute for land managers of archaeological sites already at or near sea level. Pockoy (38CH2533), a late Archaic period shell ring...


Archaeological Shoreline Monitoring in a Climate-Changing SW Florida: The Case of a Rapidly Eroding, Rare, Late-Archaic Shell Midden at Calusa Island (2018)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Karen Walker. Jennifer Haney. William Marquardt. Rachael Kangas. Sara Ayers-Rigsby.

There are only a very few Archaic period sites in the Charlotte Harbor/Pine Island Sound region of southwest Florida. One of these, composing a large portion of Calusa Island, is an oyster-shell dominated midden. According to a landowner, since ca. 1973-1974 the site has suffered a horizontal loss of 11 m along parts (if not all) of its 80+meter, eroding archaeological shoreline. Based on a 1944 aerial photograph, it is likely that as much as 28 m has been eroded away. We began a monitoring...


Archaeological Survey Feasibility of Postharvest Units within the Coast Range (2023)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Jeremy Johnson.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Coast Range in Western Oregon is characterized by deeply incised canyons and a climate that promotes rapid growth and diverse communities of vegetation. Due to these characteristics, it is difficult to conduct archaeological investigations within the Coast Range. This problem is further exacerbated by a shortage of staff and lack of field opportunity...


Archaeological Synthesis and CRM: An Odd Couple? (2021)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Jeffrey Altschul.

This is an abstract from the "Refining Archaeological Data Collection and Management to Achieve Greater Scientific, Traditional, and Educational Values" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. According to the SRI Foundation, CRM accounted for 93% of the $367 million total expenditures on archaeological research in the US in FY 2020. While the percentage varies by country, I suspect that this trend holds worldwide. CRM research emphasizes field...


Archaeologists as Indian Advocates? Lessons from Skinner, the Little-Weasel, and Moorehead, the Indian Commissioner (2019)
DOCUMENT Citation Only April Beisaw.

This is an abstract from the "Sins of Our Ancestors (and of Ourselves): Confronting Archaeological Legacies" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Archaeologists who study the Native past have a responsibility to the Native present. But our academic training does little to prepare us for advocacy work. Personal interests, ethics, and the precariousness of employment often dictate what can be done. Doing nothing is easier and safer than speaking out, but...


Archaeology and Contemporary Capitalism (2019)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Peter Gould.

This is an abstract from the "Archaeology Out-of-the-Box: Investigating the Edge of the Discipline" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Hamilakis and Duke first considered the relationship between "Archaeology and Capitalism" in 2007. In the intervening decade, contemporary capitalism has changed vastly, relocating and concentrating wealth and economic power, constraining national sovereignty in globalized markets, disrupting industries through...


Archaeology and Ethnography on Old Providence and Santa Catalina Islands (Colombia) (2021)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Tracie Mayfield.

This is an abstract from the "Afro-Latin American Landscapes" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. English settlers colonized Old Providence and Santa Catalina islands in 1629—arriving on the Seaflower, sister ship to the Mayflower—one year after the founding of the Massachusetts Bay Colony in what was to become the United States, but the two colonies had very different historical trajectories. From 1629 to 1630, colonists, under the direction of the...


Archaeology and Forestry Perspectives on the Management of Rhyolite Quarries on Pennsylvania State Forest Lands (2023)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Ross Owen. Roy Brubaker.

This is an abstract from the "Public Lands, Public Sites: Research, Engagement, and Collaboration" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This paper discusses best practices for the management of prehistoric quarries on public lands. It incorporates a brief overview of the threats facing the protection of archaeological resources within a temperate forest ecosystem. Leading with a discussion of management priorities from an archaeologist’s perspective,...


Archaeology and NAGPRA in Alaska: Examples of Intentional Excavation (2019)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Rhea Hood. Rachel Mason.

This is an abstract from the "Beyond Collections: Federal Archaeology and "New Discoveries" under NAGPRA" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Intentional excavation of human remains and associated items subject to NAGPRA occurs rarely. Such excavations are only permitted under particular circumstances and only with approval of lineal descendants (as appropriate) and affiliated tribes. In Alaska, National Park Service staff have facilitated...


Archaeology and the Green Power Initiative: Reconciling Large Renewable Energy Development Projects and the Protection of Cultural Resources (2019)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Jordon Loucks.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The development of utility scale renewable energy projects is a necessity to curtail our environmental footprint. The utilization of solar and wind power sources to provide stable, affordable, and ethically sound alternatives to the resource extraction-based energy production practices of yesterday is quickly sweeping the American landscape. However, with...


Archaeology and Well-Being Delivered through Authentic and Meaningful Participation (2023)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Paul Everill.

This is an abstract from the "Archaeological Congress: Multivocal Conversations Furthering the World Archaeological Congress Agenda" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Archaeology, heritage, and the historic environment more broadly are increasingly recognized as powerful tools in the delivery of community mental health and well-being benefits. Archaeology as a therapeutic intervention for veterans achieved significant public profile through the work...


Archaeology as a Public Good: the Summer Field School Program at Clarion University of Pennsylvania (2019)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Susan Prezzano.

This is an abstract from the "Archaeology as a Public Good: Why Studying Archaeology Creates Good Careers and Good Citizens" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. During the past twenty years, the anthropology program at Clarion University, a small public university in rural western Pennsylvania, participated in a partnership with the Heritage Program of the Allegheny National Forest focused on the excavation of archaeological sites within the boundaries...


Archaeology as Actionable Science on Climate Change: Lessons from Interdisciplinary Collaboration (2018)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Carrie Hritz. Marcy Rockman. Robert Winthrop. Torben Rick.

Within archaeology, it is widely assumed recognized that the field has much to offer present and future efforts to address climate change. From an archaeological perspective, this may be directly through data, improved models of human adaptation, building or preserving modern connections to place, to name a few. However, to date these have not been well-incorporated into federal efforts to address climate change, largely as a result of a lack of systematic engagement. To address this gap for...


Archaeology as Activism: Cultural Heritage, Identity, and Sustainability in Transylvanian Mining Communities (2019)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Lana Dorr. Jada Langston. Sophia Coren. Horia Ciugudean. Colin Quinn.

This is an abstract from the "Advancing Public Perceptions of Sustainability through Archaeology" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Activism through ethical community engagement is now a requirement, rather than an elective, of all scholars. Archaeologists have a responsibility to mobilize our understanding of the past, especially to achieve mutual goals we have with modern community partners with whom we work. As an example, we present a case study...


Archaeology Education for Teachers: Getting Results (2023)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Jeanne Moe.

This is an abstract from the "Outreach and Education: Examples of Approaches and Strategies from the Pacific Northwest" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Archaeologists have long considered classroom teachers as partners in our efforts to educate the public about the significance of archaeological sites and the importance of protection. While programs and projects on local, state, and national levels have provided professional development and...


Archaeology in Puerto Rico from 1960 to 1988: A Transition from Amateur to Regulated Archaeology (2023)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Paola Valentin Irizarry.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In 1952, Puerto Rico began a new era of self-administration. The establishment of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico inspired the creation of the Institute of Puerto Rican Culture (1955). The propaganda given to indigenous heritage resulted in the rise of amateur archaeologists. This paper considers the contributions of these groups toward the development of...