Assessing Site Significance: A Guide for Archaeologists and Historians (Heritage Resource Management Series) - Hardcover

Hardesty, Donald L.; Little, Barbara J.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 075911126X ISBN 13: 9780759111264

Publisher: AltaMira Press, 2009

Synopsis

Assessing Site Significance is an invaluable resource for archaeologists and others who need guidance in determining whether sites are eligible for listing in the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP). Because the register's eligibility criteria were largely developed for standing sites, it is difficult to know in any particular case whether a site known primarily through archaeological work has sufficient 'historical significance' to be listed. Hardesty and Little address these challenges, describing how to file for NRHP eligibility and how to determine the historical significance of archaeological properties. This second edition brings everything up to date, and includes new material on 17th- and 18th-century sites, traditional cultural properties, shipwrecks, Japanese internment camps, and military properties.

About this title

About the Author

Donald L. Hardesty is a professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Nevada-Reno. Barbara J. Little is an archaeologist with the National Park Service in Washington, DC, and adjunct professor of anthropology at the University of Maryland, College Park.

Edition details

• Publisher: AltaMira Press
• Publication date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 075911126X
• ISBN 13: 9780759111264
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 254