The Past, Present, and Future of Archaeological Investigation on the BLM: An Introduction to Public Research on Public Lands.

Summary

The overall symposium provides a series of case examples that demonstrate the important role the BLM plays in promoting proactive non-compliance related archaeological research. This introductory paper sets the frame by offering direct experience from multiple perspectives working on BLM land as a field school student, graduate student researcher, volunteer, contractor, and agency archaeologist. This is done to provide additional context for how the BLM has typically supported archaeological investigations on public lands in the past, to offer some comments on the current state of work being conducted, and to consider what the future might look like based on general trends in the discipline.

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This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Society for American Archaeology 80th Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA (2015)   •
• New Research and Emerging Scholars Working on Public Lands Administered by the Bureau of Land Management

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