The Landscapes in Military Installation Archaeology

Military installations offer unique modern and historical landscapes. Unlike many other large government owned properties, where the goal is to leave the property undisturbed, the mission of military installations is to utilize the property in its entirety and to evolve and transform with the military missions. This leads cultural resources managers to utilize a landscape's broader cultural view where they understand their lands within the context of their surrounding landscape, rather than view their lands on a site by site basis as is common with CRM and academic projects throughout the United States. This allows for the ability to see the big picture of a local landscape before the installation was built and the local component of a bigger picture when looking at the installation during historic military conflict landscapes. Also, explore the difference of working within the modern military landscape versus working in academia or general CRM.