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

Hardesty and Little provide the most uptodate guide for assessing the historical significance of archaeological sites that may be eligible to be listed in the National Register of Historic Places. In this second edition, all laws, regulations, and references have been entirely updated. New material on landfills, Japanese internment camps, landscapes, and military properties has been added, along with special case studies on 17th and 18thcentury historical sites and additional chapters on heritage tourism, traditional cultural places, and shipwrecks.

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.