The Vanishing Treasures Program: Celebrating 20 Years of National Park Service Historic Preservation
Part of: Society for American Archaeology 84th Annual Meeting, Albuquerque, NM (2019)
This collection contains the abstracts of the papers presented in the session entitled "The Vanishing Treasures Program: Celebrating 20 Years of National Park Service Historic Preservation," at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.
In 1998 the National Park Service established the Vanishing Treasures Program (VT). Originally started as a grassroots effort to protect and preserve architectural ruins in the American Southwest, Vanishing Treasures has grown to include all forms of traditionally-built architecture on National Park Service lands throughout the American West, Alaska and the Pacific Islands. While the program has undergone significant growth over the last 20 years, the core mission of perpetuating traditional building skills, promoting connections between culturally associated communities and preserving culturally significant architecture has not. This session will celebrate the Vanishing Treasures Program by discussing the past, present and future development of VT and its impact on cultural resource management in the National Park Service and throughout the country.
Other Keywords
Cultural Resources and Heritage Management •
Cultural Heritage and Preservation •
Architecture •
Historic •
Ancestral Pueblo •
Experimental Archaeology •
Pueblo •
Historic Preservation •
Preservation •
Historic Log Structure
Geographic Keywords
United States of America (Country) •
North America (Continent) •
New Mexico (State / Territory) •
Oklahoma (State / Territory) •
Arizona (State / Territory) •
Texas (State / Territory) •
Sonora (State / Territory) •
Chihuahua (State / Territory) •
Baja California (State / Territory) •
USA (Country)
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- Documents (14)
The Bandelier Preservation Program: Accomplishing the Vanishing Treasures Mission by Encouraging Traditional Building Skills and Descendant Community Involvement in the Preservation Process (2019)
Preserving Our Vanishing Treasures: 20 Years of Collaboration, Community Building, Traditional Craft and Conservation Science (2019)