Billions of Dollars: Calculating the Size of the Heritage Compliance Sector

Summary

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

The presenters, through their companies Landward Research and Heritage Business International, produce annual reports on the size of the heritage compliance or commercial archaeology sectors in the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, and worldwide. These reports show the enormous scale of commercial archaeology—hundreds of millions of dollars are being spent by clients in these countries, directly investing in archaeological work that they are required to undertake. This paper will review the heritage compliance sector’s position within the wider environmental consulting financial ecosystem, will look at the economic history of the industry from the 1970s to the present day, and will discuss why knowing about the billions of dollars that are spent on heritage compliance around the world is important.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts   •
• Society for American Archaeology 88th Annual Meeting, Portland, OR (2023)

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Abstract Id(s): 37478.0