A Further Discussion on the Role of Archaeology in Resource and Public Land Management

This collection contains the abstracts of the papers presented in the session entitled "A Further Discussion on the Role of Archaeology in Resource and Public Land Management" at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

As archaeological research shifted toward issues at the landscape scale, increasingly sophisticated methods and technologies provided the discipline with refined data that can be applied to the study of the evolution of ecological and cultural systems. In this symposium, we bring together a range of specialists to discuss the role of archaeological data in addressing an array of topics, from the definition of wilderness, water management, mammalian genomes, mammalian range shifts, and shifting landforms. These papers bring time depth to our understanding of past ecological communities and human-environment relationships through interdisciplinary approaches, including archival studies, biogeography, ethnography, geoarchaeology, and zooarchaeology. These case studies provide a more complete understanding of system dynamics for future protection and management.