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
  1. Architectural Documentation at the Montezuma Castle and Casa Grande Ruins National Monuments (2019)
  2. The Bandelier Preservation Program: Accomplishing the Vanishing Treasures Mission by Encouraging Traditional Building Skills and Descendant Community Involvement in the Preservation Process (2019)
  3. Complexities and Opportunities in a Living Landscape: Developing a Cooperative Management Strategy for Historic Navajo Architecture in Canyon de Chelly (2019)
  4. Don't Leave Your Mark: Graffiti Mitigation Strategies at Arches National Park (2019)
  5. Integrated Approach to Ruins Stabilization at Tuzigoot National Monument (2019)
  6. Mindful Preservation: Lessons Learned from the 2016-2018 Preservation Workshops at San Antonio Missions NHP (2019)
  7. Moisture Monitoring Studies of Adobe Walls at Pecos NHP, New Mexico (2019)
  8. The Origins of the National Park Service's Vanishing Treasures Program (2019)
  9. Pluvia Ex Machina: Testing rainfall variability on adobe structures (2019)
  10. Preserving Our Vanishing Treasures: 20 Years of Collaboration, Community Building, Traditional Craft and Conservation Science (2019)
  11. Repeat Laser Scanning for Deformation Analysis in Prehistoric Earthen Architecture Rockshelter Sites: A Case Study at Tonto National Monument (2019)
  12. RTI Photography inside a Hohokam Great House (2019)
  13. The Vanishing Treasures Training Program- Closing the Skills Gap (2019)
  14. When Contemporary Becomes Historic: Preservation Maintenance to Mission 66 Architecture at El Morro National Monument (2019)