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US Cultural Resource Management and the ICAHM Charter

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Ricardo J. Elia*
Affiliation:
Department of Archaeology, Boston University, 675 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston (MA) 02215, USA

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The ICAHM Charter for the Protection and Management of the Archaeological Heritage was developed to serve as an international statement of principles and guidelines relevant to archaeological resources (Lund 1989: 15-17]. The need for such a document is great: even a brief survey of archaeological heritage management systems throughout the world (e.g. Cleere 1984; 1989) reveals that no nation currently offers adequate protection to its archaeological heribage. To varying degrees, all nations fall short of realizing the ideals espoused in the Charter. The United States of America, despite having highly developed preservation legislation, regulations and procedures, a full-blown archaeological bureaucracy and more than 20 years of experience in cultural resource management, is no exception.

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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd. 1993

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