Thinking of Starting a Stewardship Program? Lessons Learned from the National Site Stewardship Network Survey 2022

Summary

This is an abstract from the "Site Stewardship Matters: Comparing and Contrasting Site Stewardship Programs to Advance Our Practice" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

Over the last 15 years, there have been several surveys of cultural site stewardship programs. None, however, reach the scale of the 2022 National Site Stewardship Network Survey, which included over 30 programs across the US and one in Scotland. This provided an opportunity to investigate what makes a program successful by looking at its structure, management, funding, resources, and the unique adaptions each program makes to work in the area it covers. Success in stewardship does not come from the application of a simple formula or a one-size-fits-all methodology. However, there are guidelines, when followed, that may increase the chances of success and longevity.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Site Stewardship Matters: Comparing and Contrasting Site Stewardship Programs to Advance Our Practice   •
• Society for American Archaeology 88th Annual Meeting, Portland, OR (2023)

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Record Identifiers

Abstract Id(s): 36366.0