Avoiding Archaeological Disasters: Risk Management for Heritage Professionals (Techniques & Issues in Cultural Resource Management) - Hardcover

Stapp, Darby C; Longenecker, Julia

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1598741608 ISBN 13: 9781598741605

Publisher: Routledge, 2009

Synopsis

You think it can’t happen to you, but it can. One day, months into your construction project, your front end load operator runs into bones and wooden slats. Your county coroner says it is not a crime scene, and refers you to the local archaeology department. The archaeologist tells you that it is a very important discovery. Work stops. Archaeological discoveries happen all the time in the course of projects. Most are manageable, some are less so, and some are mismanaged, wasting time and money. If you are not prepared, the consequences can be disastrous. This book is for project engineers, project managers, construction managers, the staff of affected government agencies, and archaeological consultants. In its pages you receive enough information, enough archaeological perspective, to intelligently work with the various parties involved in your project and avoid an archaeological disaster.

About this title

From the Inside Flap

This book is for project engineers and managers, government staff and consultants to help avoid unforseen archaeological problems in construction and development projects.

About the Author

Archaeologists Darby Stapp and Julia Longenecker have worked in the Pacific Northwest for nearly thirty years. Stapp is employed in the cultural resource management programs at the U.S. Department of Energy's Hanford Site, which works actively with tribes. and Longnecker with the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation (CTUIR). Stapp is coauthor of the book Tribal Cultural Resource Management (AltaMira 2002).

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 1598741608
• ISBN 13: 9781598741605
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 176