The Bandelier Preservation Program: Accomplishing the Vanishing Treasures Mission by Encouraging Traditional Building Skills and Descendant Community Involvement in the Preservation Process

Summary

This is an abstract from the "The Vanishing Treasures Program: Celebrating 20 Years of National Park Service Historic Preservation" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

Preservation efforts at Bandelier National Monument have followed the Vanishing Treasures core mission for nearly 20 years. Today, the Bandelier Preservation Program maintains this tradition by way of numerous and varied preservation projects. Two projects in particular that adhere to the VT approach are discussed in this paper: the involvement of the Bandelier Preservation Corps in preserving Ancestral Pueblo architecture and the stabilization of Pond Cabin, an early twentieth century log structure that played a role in the development of the first atomic weapon. Initial stabilization of Pond Cabin took place in the fall of 2017 as part of a Vanishing Treasures workshop. The project promoted the use of traditional building skills to educate individuals from multiple organizations and federal agencies in the preservation of log architecture. The Bandelier Preservation Corps began in 2015 and consists of local Pueblo youth who participate in wide-ranging activities structured to promote the transfer of traditional knowledge and skills in the preservation of their Ancestral sites at Bandelier.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• The Vanishing Treasures Program: Celebrating 20 Years of National Park Service Historic Preservation   •
• Society for American Archaeology 84th Annual Meeting, Albuquerque, NM (2019)

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Abstract Id(s): 23707