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Cultural resource management and Africanist archaeology

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Scott MacEachern
Scott MacEachern*
Affiliation:
Department of Sociology & Anthropology, Bowdoin College, Brunswick ME 4011, USA, smaceach@bowdoin.edu
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Among the general public, the extraordinarily important role played by cultural resource management (hereafter CRM) procedures in the conservation of archaeological materials usually goes unrecognized. Popular images of the swashbuckling adventures of Indiana Jones, or somewhat more generally of intrepid archaeologists making the latest Fiild of the Century, do not accord well with the concept that the remains of past human activities are actual resources, ones that can and should be managed in the interest of nations and their citizens. All too often, the significance of CRM legislation and the archaeological research that stems from it is not recognized even by academic archaeologists, in part because publication procedures and venues are so different in the worlds of academic and contract archaeology.

Keywords

cultural resource management (CRM)sub-Saharan AfricaWorld Bank
Type
Special section
Information
Antiquity , Volume 75 , Issue 290 , December 2001 , pp. 866 - 871
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd. 2001

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