Cultural Resource Management at an USACE Research Laboratory: Methodology Development in CPP Rapid Response

Summary

This is an abstract from the "U.S. Army Corps of Engineers: A National Perspective on CRM, Research, and Consultation" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

The CRM team at the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (Corps) Construction Engineering Research Laboratory (CERL) provides research in archaeology, Native American issues, historic buildings and landscapes as well as environmental planning. Our team provides direct technical and subject matter expert support to military installations and Corps districts. Additionally we conduct original research in methodologies to streamline the CRM process in conjunction with the U.S Military mission. These efforts include national contexts, programmatic solutions to CRM issues and guidance on the deployment on new technologies. One ongoing effort, presented in this paper, is the development of a globally applicable decision matrix that will facilitate the rapid response to developing or ongoing man-made or natural disasters that impact cultural sites. Cultural Property Protection (CPP) approaches need to be cost-effective and scalable to challenging circumstances that may include serious shortages in time and trained personnel, and the need to work in harsh and even potentially dangerous conditions. The matrix under development takes into consideration the amount of time, resources, and trained or untrained personnel available and what data collection methodologies can be best deployed to achieve maximum results with the available resources.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• U.S. Army Corps of Engineers: A National Perspective on CRM, Research, and Consultation   •
• Society for American Archaeology 84th Annual Meeting, Albuquerque, NM (2019)

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Abstract Id(s): 25840