Utility Lines Straddling State Boundaries: Cultural Resources Angle on Accumulated Knowledge and Knock-On Effects

Summary

This is an abstract from the "Power to the People: Cultural Resource Investigations along Utility Lines Giving a Voice to Past and Present Communities" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

In the regulatory side of archaeology we call cultural resource management, some of the utility line work undertaken in the last several decades has created enormous repositories of information. The volume of excavated soil has been equally immense, in the process yielding critical data for present and future stake holders. When utility work crosses state lines, it also meets particularities and legacy effects that are a function of individual states’ processes of dealing with the accumulated data. This paper looks at several such projects and their ensuing maintenance, drawing attention to logistics and specific production of knowledge enabled by the scale of the undertakings.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Power to the People: Cultural Resource Investigations along Utility Lines Giving a Voice to Past and Present Communities   •
• Society for American Archaeology 89th Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA (2024)

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Abstract Id(s): 41710.0