The Price We’ve Paid: From Salvage Archaeology to Cultural Resource Management and Beyond in the Missouri River Basin

2011 ◽  
Vol 56 (220) ◽  
pp. 371-385 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kimball M. Banks ◽  
J. Signe Snortland ◽  
Jon Czaplicki
Keyword(s):  
Resource Management ◽  
River Basin ◽  
Missouri River ◽  
Cultural Resource Management ◽  
Cultural Resource ◽  
Salvage Archaeology

Some thoughts on cultural resource management archaeology in the United States

Antiquity ◽  
1988 ◽  
Vol 62 (234) ◽  
pp. 72-87 ◽  
Author(s):  
J.M. Adovasio ◽  
Ronald C. Carlisle
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Resource Management ◽  
The United States ◽  
Cultural Resource Management ◽  
Cultural Resource ◽  
University Of Pittsburgh ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Salvage Archaeology ◽  
The University

The relations between rescue and research have been a lively issue in those many countries where salvage work has become the context for much, or most, funding for archaeological fieldwork. Nowhere has the debate been livelier than in the USA, where the last decade has seen the growth of cultural resource management (CRM), in part ‘as a rebellion against the connotations of the term “salvage archaeology”’ (Knudson 1986:400).The University of Pittsburgh is one of the most active anthropology departments in the field; here the CRM issues are explored, with examples from the Pittsburgh programme.

scholarly journals The Ear Spool Site (41TT653): A mid-15th to early 17th Century A.D. Caddo site in the Sulphur River Basin, Titus County, Texas

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Timothy K. Perttula
Keyword(s):  
Resource Management ◽  
River Basin ◽  
17Th Century ◽  
Cultural Resource Management ◽  
East Texas ◽  
White Oak ◽  
Cultural Resource ◽  
Archaeological Evidence ◽  
Residential Structures ◽  
Small Tributary

The Ear Spool site (41TT653) is a rather unique ancestral Caddo Settlement in the East Texas Pineywoods. More specifically, it is situated along a small tributary to East Piney Creek, itself a northward flowing tributart to White Oak Creek in the Sulphyr River Basin. What makes the site unique is its diverse architectural charter as seen in the archaeological evidence of four buildings in two different Late Caddo period, Titus phase occupations, separated by as much as 2-3 generations, from the mid- 15th to early 17th century A.D. In, particular, it is the construction of two specialized structures in the earlier Caddo occupation in shallow pits that is most notable, along with evidence of marker posts in two different intra-site contexts. Both of these structures were deliberately destroyed by burning and burial with sediments. The later structures were larger circular residential structures, one of which was deliberately burned down, but not covered with any sediments. Galan and Perttula and Sherman has discussed the archaeological investigations of the Ear Spool site in detail, characterizing the site's archaeological features and findings. However, these publications are very limited in distribution, basically being limited to Cultural Resource Management archaeologist working in Texas, but I believe that the findings from the Ear Spool site warrant broader consideration because of its distinctive and dual scared and secular nature.

The Carter/Kerr-McGee Paleoindian Site: Cultural Resource Management and Archaeological Research

1984 ◽  
Vol 49 (2) ◽  
pp. 288-314 ◽  
Author(s):  
George C. Frison
Keyword(s):  
Resource Management ◽  
River Basin ◽  
Management Program ◽  
Cultural Resource Management ◽  
Powder River Basin ◽  
State Agencies ◽  
Archaeological Survey ◽  
Site Location ◽  
Cultural Resource ◽  
Large Animals

A decade of intensive archaeological survey of the Powder River Basin in Wyoming has revealed one stratified Paleoindian site along with several thousand sites of later age. This site is only a remnant of a much larger one. It has four cultural levels that include Clovis, Folsom, Agate Basin-Hell Gap, and Alberta-Cody respectively, with intervening sterile deposits. The site location and the taphonomics of the bone bed in the Alberta-Cody level suggest that the site was associated with the procurement of large animals. Interdisciplinary investigation of the site indicates that past geologic activity is largely responsible for the scarcity of Paleoindian sites in the basin. The history and basic philosophy of cultural resource management in this area are reviewed. Currently, land ownership is divided between federal and state agencies and private operators, such that the surface may be privately owned while the subsurface is federally owned. The argument is made for a future cultural resource management program for the Powder River Basin that is strongly oriented toward research in contrast to the present policy of inventory and avoidance of archaeological sites.

Assembling Archaeology

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hannah Cobb ◽  
Karina Croucher
Keyword(s):  
Resource Management ◽  
Undergraduate Student ◽  
Teaching Practice ◽  
Cultural Resource Management ◽  
First Century ◽  
Cultural Resource ◽  
Archaeological Practice ◽  
Material Turn ◽  
The Subject ◽  
New Perspective

This book provides a radical rethinking of the relationships between teaching, researching, digging, and practicing as an archaeologist in the twenty-first century. The issues addressed here are global and are applicable wherever archaeology is taught, practiced, and researched. In short, this book is applicable to everyone from academia to cultural resource management (CRM), from heritage professional to undergraduate student. At its heart, it addresses the undervaluation of teaching, demonstrating that this affects the fundamentals of contemporary archaeological practice, and is particularly connected to the lack of diversity in disciplinary demographics. It proposes a solution which is grounded in a theoretical rethinking of our teaching, training, and practice. Drawing upon the insights from archaeology’s current material turn, and particularly Deleuze and Guattari’s concept of assemblages, this volume turns the discipline of archaeology into the subject of investigation, considering the relationships between teaching, practice, and research. It offers a new perspective which prompts a rethinking of our expectations and values with regard to teaching, training, and doing archaeology, and ultimately argues that we are all constantly becoming archaeologists.

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