Basic principles of archaeological resource management (1982)

The SAA Archaeological Record 12(2): 27-30., 2012

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American Antiquity, 1991

Throughout the world, public agencies, professional societies, and individual archaeologists have recognized the need for more and better public education about archaeology. We are challenged to act on this recognition by providing opportunities for the public to learn about, and even participate in, archaeological interpretations and investigations. The audiences for these efforts include the general public, students and teachers, legislators, public administrators, and Native Americans. Archaeology has been a subject of interest to the public for centuries, and the archaeological record has fascinated people for even longer. Contemporary archaeologists must reach out to the public by providing them with understandable interpretations and explanations. We must do this if appreciation for archaeology and for the importance of archaeological preservation is to grow in America.

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An analysis of the theoretical tendancies of U.S. archaeology in the last forty years aims at demonstrating that archeology, as other disciplines, is closely related to broader intellectual movements or paradigms. Scientifïc ideas should be treated neither as independent of different social structures and historical processes, nor as epiphenomena of those structures and processes.... Analysis of social and cognitive factors cannot be restricted only to ideas within a particular scientifïc discipline, or to the social character of that discipline. The reconstruction must also reach beyond that discipline to ideas in both closely related fields and also to ideas in the wider social, political, and philosophical movements. In addition, it must also consider social factors in related sciences, and in the wider social and political developments 1-2).