Practicing Archaeology: A Training Manual for Cultural Resources Archaeology - Hardcover

Neumann, Thomas W.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0759100942 ISBN 13: 9780759100947

Publisher: AltaMira Press, 2001

Synopsis

Practicing cultural resource (CRM) archaeologists bemoan the lack of knowledge, skill, and training of most archaeological field workers. This comprehensive training manual is designed to solve that problem. Neumann and Sanford use their decades of field experience to discuss in great detail the complex processes involved in conducting a CRM project. Dealing with everything from law to logistics, archival research to zoological analysis, project proposals to report production, they provide an invaluable sourcebook to archaeologists who do contract work in North America. After an introduction to the legal and ethical aspects of cultural resources management, the authors describe the process of designing a proposal and contracting for work, doing background research, conducting assessment, testing, and mitigation (Phase I, II, and III) work, laboratory analysis, and preparing a report for the project sponsor. Throughout, the emphasis on real-world problems and issues, the use of extensive examples, and the detailed advice on a host of subjects, make this an ideal teaching tool for novice archaeologists and field schools and a handy reference for experienced CRM archaeologists. The accompanying student textbook by the same authors, CULTURAL RESOURCES ARCHAEOLOGY: An Introduction introduces the basic elements of CRM work to undergraduates.

About this title

About the Author:

Tomas W. Neumann has been conducting CRM archaeology projects for over 25 years and has been a faculty member at four different institutions. In addition to his running his own contract archaeology firm, he now manages the Diachronics Division at the Pocket Park-Wentworth Analytical Facility. Robert M. Sanford is on the Environmental Science faculty at University of Southern Maine, Gorham. He has taught at several universities, been a consulting archaeologist, and served as an environmental regulator .

About this edition

• Publisher: AltaMira Press
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0759100942
• ISBN 13: 9780759100947
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 448