New Perspectives on Heritage Protection: Accomplishing Goals

Part of: SAA Electronic Symposia Papers, 84th Annual Meeting, Albuquerque, NM (2019)

This collection contains the abstracts of the papers presented in the session entitled "New Perspectives on Heritage Protection: Accomplishing Goals," at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

The forum entitled "New Perspectives on Heritage Protection" presented at the 2018 Society for American Archaeology (SAA) meeting identified several potential ways to better achieve the important goal of heritage protection. First, archaeologists need to communicate more effectively with the public, land managers, law enforcement officers and prosecutors about the importance and relevance of heritage protection. Second, all archaeologists should cooperate fully with law enforcement officers and prosecutors in protecting these resources, even when this is not their primary professional interest. Third, innovative legal strategies to protect heritage resources, beyond the use of standard approaches such as prosecution under the Archaeological Resources Protection Act, should be considered. Finally, the SAA and other professional organizations with an ethical commitment to the protection of heritage resources and their members should be actively engaged in the protection of these resources. In this electronic symposium, representatives of stakeholders in heritage protection will consider how these goals might be accomplished.

Other Keywords
Cultural Resources and Heritage Management • Cultural Heritage and Preservation • Significance • Cultural Resource Management • Ethics • heritage • Confidentiality • Education/Pedagogy • Public engagement with heritage resources

Geographic Keywords
United States of America (Country) • North America (Continent) • North America • United Mexican States (Country) • Department of Martinique (Country) • Republic of El Salvador (Country) • Department of Guadeloupe (Country) • Cayman Islands (Country) • Antigua and Barbuda (Country) • Turks and Caicos Islands (Country)

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  • Archaeologists’ Role in New Approaches to Heritage Studies and Heritage Protection (2019)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Phyllis Messenger.

    This is an abstract from the "New Perspectives on Heritage Protection: Accomplishing Goals" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. If conceptions of heritage are based on a community’s shared values, then it should follow that protection of heritage assets would also be built on those shared values. However, we live in an imperfect world of diverse, often competing stakeholders who assign different values to heritage. Nevertheless, archaeologists and...

  • ARPA and Confidentiality in the Digital Age (2019)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Stanley Bond.

    This is an abstract from the "New Perspectives on Heritage Protection: Accomplishing Goals" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Archeological Resources Protection Act (ARPA) and 54 U.S.C. 307103 (Title 54) exempt archeological site location data and other site information from the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). The digital age, however, provides site looters with a new range of tools to discover archeological site locations on federal and...

  • How can archaeologists better engage the public, tribes, land managers, law enforcement officers and prosecutors regarding the importance and relevance of heritage protection? (2019)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Liv Fetterman.

    This is an abstract from the "New Perspectives on Heritage Protection: Accomplishing Goals" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Planning for active engagement with land managers, law enforcement, tribes and the public during federal archaeological project development can lead to a more comprehensive, reciprocal appreciation of heritage and its protection. To include public engagement and interpretation into project work, especially NHPA Section 110,...

  • New Perspectives on Cultural Heritage Protection Informed by Public Opinion Surveys (2019)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Kayla Bradshaw.

    This is an abstract from the "New Perspectives on Heritage Protection: Accomplishing Goals" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Despite past cultural resource protection efforts, looting remains a prevalent issue throughout the U.S. While the laws may be adequate, current methods of and emphasis on detection and enforcement of these crimes are not. This paper discusses new perspectives on cultural heritage protection based primarily on the results of...

  • Rethinking Site Significance to Improve Preservation and Protection (2019)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Daniel Odess.

    This is an abstract from the "New Perspectives on Heritage Protection: Accomplishing Goals" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The archaeological record is under attack. Whether from willful destruction at the hands of religious extremists, vandalism aimed at destroying the heritage of minority populations, looting for fun and profit, development in the name of progress, ill-considered agency actions, or climate-driven fire and erosion, the tangible...

  • State-level law and prosecutorial interest in archaeological resources protection (2019)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Ryan Seidemann.

    This is an abstract from the "New Perspectives on Heritage Protection: Accomplishing Goals" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Archaeological site damage, destruction, and looting is nothing new. For years, the archaeological community has bemoaned the minimal protections for these resources under federal law. Little discussion has occurred regarding what protections may exist under various states’ legal regimes. This paper reviews Louisiana’s...

  • Why Is There No American Convention on the Protection of the Archaeological Heritage? (2019)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Brent Kober. Suzanne Hayden. Martin McAllister.

    This is an abstract from the "New Perspectives on Heritage Protection: Accomplishing Goals" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The question posed in the paper title will be addressed by presenting arguments for the development and adoption of an American Convention on the Protection of the Archaeological Heritage similar to the existing European convention on heritage protection. Using the European convention as a model, important components of an...