Cultural Resources and Heritage Management (Other Keyword)

326-350 (674 Records)

Investigaciones en el Grupo Sereque, Complejo La Danta, El Mirador, Petén: Resultados 2015-2018 (2021)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Marcia Chacon De Hernandez.

This is an abstract from the "Recent Multidisciplinary Investigations in the Mirador Basin, Guatemala" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Investigaciones en el Grupo Sereque han enfocado en la estructura principal conocida como Edificio 5A7.1 del Grupo Sereque, que corresponde al complejo La Danta. El grupo esta ubicada al norte sobre una elevación y área de cantera y está conectado directamente a la primera plataforma de la Danta por una calzada de...


Investigating Parajes: An Exploration of “Camping” Sites on the Camino Real (2021)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Kelly Jenks.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2021: General Sessions" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. For three centuries, El Camino Real de Tierra Adentro National Historic Trail served as the main wagon road transporting people and merchandise between the New Mexico colony and the interior of New Spain. Most archaeological investigations of this trail have focused on only two types of sites: actual trail segments, and associated camping areas known as...


An Investigation of Demographic and Spatial Patterns at the Fort Huachuca Cemetery, Arizona (2019)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Diane Slocum.

This is an abstract from the "Historical Archaeologies of the American Southwest, 1800 to Today" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This paper investigates the development of the Fort Huachuca Cemetery, an active burial ground first established in the late-nineteenth century on a military post in southern Arizona. The cemetery is known as a final resting place for a unique combination of individuals including Apache Scouts, Buffalo Soldiers, other...


Involve Me and I Learn: Archaeology, Experiential Education, and Collaborative Research with SUU Undergrads (2019)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Emily Dean.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. By partnering with federal land agencies, local landowners and developers, regional non-profit organizations, state museums, and county libraries, Southern Utah University (SUU) archaeology students gain access to valuable experiential learning opportunities, build their professional resumes, practice service learning, and help educate the public about the...


Is Archaeology Up to the Pepsi Challenge?: The Identification of Marginalized Populations in CRM Archaeology (2019)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Matthew Beaudoin.

This is an abstract from the "Recognizing and Recording Post-1492 Indigenous Sites in North American Archaeology" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The determination of the ethnic or cultural affiliation of an archaeological site, Indigenous or otherwise, is often considered one of the primary starting points for the interpretation of 19th-century archaeological sites. This determination is a significant step in the archaeological process and...


Is Yellowstone a Wilderness? The Role of Archaeology in Challenging Contemporary Views of Wild Areas (2023)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Douglas MacDonald.

This is an abstract from the "A Further Discussion on the Role of Archaeology in Resource and Public Land Management" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Archaeologists are in a unique position to challenge the contemporary view of wilderness as defined by the United States in the 1964 Wilderness Act. Following the postmodern critique of William Cronon, Mark David Spence’s 1999 book “Dispossessing the Wilderness: Indian Removal and the Making of the...


It Takes a Village to Raise a Fort: The Fort Halifax Rediscovery Project (2023)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Jonathan Burns. Amanda Rasmussen.

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. Fort Halifax Township Park in Pennsylvania is home to an eponymous French and Indian War site dating to 1756. A Juniata College archaeological field school in 2021 laid the foundation to receive an American Battlefield Protection Program grant from NPS in 2022. Using a combination of geoarchaeology, controlled metal...


It’s All About Context: How Culturally Informed Landscape Understandings Expand Knowledge of Archaeological Site Interpretation (2023)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Briece Edwards. Greg Archuleta. Chris Rempel. Cheryl Pouley.

This is an abstract from the "Future Directions for Archaeology and Heritage Research in the Willamette Valley, Oregon" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Tribal Cultural Landscapes are intimate and comprehensive understandings of place rooted in the ecologies, histories, and practices of those communities who create them. For the Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde (CTGR), these include all lands between the Cascade and Coast Mountain Ranges of...


JW Fewkes, James "Al" Lancaster, and Beyond: A Century of Preservation Archeology at Mesa Verde National Park. (2018)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Tim Hovezak. Gary Ethridge. Gay Ives.

Site preservation has been an essential function at Mesa Verde National Park for a full century as well as a major prerogative of the National Park Service since its very inception. Early archaeological investigations at the park and attendant preservation efforts were instrumental in the definition of Ancestral Pueblo culture history by players who themselves were instrumental in the development of the science of North American archaeology. This presentation chronicles some of the remarkable...


Kahalu`u and Keauhou on Hawai`i Island as Living, Dynamic Landscapes (2023)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Jessica Christie.

This is an abstract from the "Living Landscapes: Disaster, Memory, and Change in Dynamic Environments " session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This paper analyzes the ahupua`a Kahalu`u and Keauhou on the west coast of Hawai`i Island as living, dynamic landscapes applying methodologies from archaeology, ethnohistory, and heritage studies as well as the framework of memory. Kahalu’u and Keauhou appear to be an incredibly interesting archaeological landscape...


Katie Bar the Door: The Time for Archaeologists to Respond to Climate Change Impacts is Shorter than We Think (2019)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Scott Seibel.

This is an abstract from the "The Middle Atlantic Regional Transect Approach to Climate Change Impacts on Archaeological Resources" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Even the most aggressive models of sea level rise don’t predict major inundation in the Middle Atlantic for many decades. However, the time available to archaeologists for managing coastal archaeological sites and mitigating their inevitable destruction may be far shorter than that. As...


Kindling Curiosity: Assessing the Early Results of Educational Outreach and Archaeology in the South Lake Champlain Basin, Vermont (2018)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Ellen Moriarty. Matthew Moriarty.

Members of the general public often view local prehistory from an artifact-based perspective, with a limited or incomplete understanding of the people who made and used such items. This view of the past is often paired with misunderstandings about both the nature of ancient settlements and the need to protect them as vital cultural resources. Initiated in 2016, the South Champlain Historical Ecology Project (SCHEP) has two goals: to study patterns in human-environment interaction along the...


La arqueología en México: una fotografía actual (2019)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Pedro Sanchez. Maribel Piña Calva.

This is an abstract from the "La Práctica Arqueológica en México en Tiempos de Crisis: Escenarios, Problemáticas Claves, Actores, Acciones y Propuestas" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Siendo el INAH la institución que por ley debe proteger, investigar, conservar y difundir el patrimonio arqueológico de México, en el momento actual debe generar respuestas adecuadas a factores que inciden en su quehacer, como son los procesos de globalización,...


La construcción del paisaje rural en pueblos del sur de Tlaxcala, México (2021)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Hernán Salas.

This is an abstract from the "Landscapes: Archaeological, Historic, and Ethnographic Perspectives from the New World / Paisajes: Perspectivas arqueológicas, históricas y etnográficas desde el Nuevo Mundo" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Los pueblos del sur de Tlaxcala, han construido su territorio desde las épocas prehispánicas, como lo atestiguan los sitios arqueológicos que aquí se ubican. Esta presentación considera, desde la antropología...


La gestión del patrimonio arqueológico desde el modelo municipal de Mérida, Yucatán: Análisis y perspectivas (2019)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Esteban De Vicente Chab. José Trinidad Escalante Kuk.

This is an abstract from the "La Práctica Arqueológica en México en Tiempos de Crisis: Escenarios, Problemáticas Claves, Actores, Acciones y Propuestas" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. La gestión del patrimonio cultural en México y particularmente el arqueológico, representa retos diversos para lo cual la participación de todos los niveles de gobierno y sociedad civil es crucial, más ahora en la que el estado sociopolitico y económico nacional...


La Restauración Arquitectónica ante los sismos: Monte Albán 1999 y 2017 (2019)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Nelly Robles Garcia.

This is an abstract from the "La Restauración de Monumentos Prehispánicos en México: Principios, Práctica, y Visión al Futuro" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Esta ponencia parte de las experiencias de tratamientos de restauración aplicados a los daños producidos por los sismos de 1999 y 2017 a la zona arqueológica de Monte Albán, Oaxaca, México. Apoyados en la larga experiencia en trabajos de restauración monumental llevados a cabo en México desde...


Language as a Cultural Resource: A Case Study with the Tolowa and Hupa Languages (2019)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Jonathan Roldan. Makayla Whitney. Taylor Picard.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Through past and current language and Cultural Resource Management (CRM) policies, this study aims to include revitalization efforts in indigenous communities, technology as a factor in protecting and spreading a language, and the state of diversity within Athabaskan languages. The Athabaskan language family contains indigenous languages with long histories...


Late Preclassic and Late Classic Period Archaeology in the Upper Reaches of Queen Creek, Superior, Arizona (2023)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Jay Franklin. Lauren Franklin. Brian McKee. Andrew Lack. Mitchell Keur.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. We summarize research findings from a data recovery project conducted along US Highway 60 near Superior, Arizona for the Arizona Department of Transportation. Prehistoric sites here range from small habitation sites (farmsteads and/or hamlets) of the late Preclassic – early Classic (AD 1000 - 1160) to both small and large habitation sites of the late...


The Late Preclassic Monumental Foundation of Nixtun-Ch’ich’, Petén, Guatemala (2023)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Evelyn Chan.

This is an abstract from the "Recent Research in the Petén Lakes Region, Petén, Guatemala" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The archaeological site of Nixtun-Ch’ich’, Petén, Guatemala, exhibits urban planning different from “typical” Maya cities. In addition to its urban density and gridded layout, it possesses large monumental architecture along its central axis that distinguished it as a prominent city during the Preclassic period. This axis...


Learning by Example: Exploring the Importance of Case Studies in Learning NAGPRA (2018)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Jayne-Leigh Thomas. Larry Zimmerman. Felipe Estudillo Colon. Jeffrey Bendremer. Jennifer Meta Robinson.

Although the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA) has existed for over a generation, educators and professionals continue to discuss the best ways to prepare learners for the complex and contextually specific process of repatriation. Every consultation and every repatriation differs, even when the same tribes and institutions are involved. Because of this, learners can benefit from seeing multiple examples of how NAGPRA is implemented and how different stakeholders...


Learning from Loss 2018: Considering Responses to Accelerated Climate Change in Scotland (2019)
DOCUMENT Citation Only William Lees. Tom Dawson. Sally Foster. Joanna Hambly. Marcy Rockman.

This is an abstract from the "Accelerating Environmental Change Threats to Cultural Heritage: Serious Challenges, Promising Responses" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In June 2018 interdisciplinary scholars from Scotland and the US convened in Edinburgh to consider action in the face of inevitable loss of coastal and carved stone heritage from accelerated processes related to climate change. The project, "Learning from Loss," was funded by the...


Learning to Squeeze the Data: Fifteen Years of Archaeological Research within the Grand Island National Recreation Area (2019)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Eric Drake.

This is an abstract from the "Archaeological Method and Theory: Papers in Honor of James M. Skibo, Part II" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. From 2001 until 2015, the Hiawatha National Forest partnered with Illinois State University (ISU) to host a public archaeology program named the Grand Island Archaeological Project. The project involved an archaeological field school operated through ISU, a Youth Archaeology Workshop, and public interpretation...


The Legacy of the Oceans: Past Marine Exploitation and the Sustainable Development Agenda (2019)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Jon Henderson.

This is an abstract from the "HumAnE Archaeology" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. SDG14 Life Below Water recognises the economic and social benefits that sustainable use of marine resources can provide including enhanced food security, sustainable energy generation, and poverty eradication through marine orientated livelihood opportunities. While environmental sciences and ecological approaches have had a major role in the development of solutions,...


Legend Rock Remembered (2019)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Carolyn McClellan. Lawrence Loendorf.

This is an abstract from the "The Art and Archaeology of the West: Papers in Honor of Lawrence L. Loendorf" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Legend Rock is a world-renowned petroglyph site located north of Thermopolis, WY. Considered a sacred site by the Shoshone Indian Nation it features impressive and significant petroglyphs within the Dinwoody tradition. This presentation focuses on the management plan created between Wyoming State Parks and...


Let’s Talk about a NAGPRA Community of Practice (2021)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Ellen Lofaro. Anne Amati.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2021: General Sessions" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. As we reflect on the 30th anniversary of the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act of 1990 (NAGPRA), practitioners recognize the progress that has been made and acknowledge the vast amount of work left to be done. In order to meet that challenge, we need to increase capacity for NAGPRA implementation, improve overall engagement with ongoing...