reshaping archaeological assessment and significance /
edited by Clay Mathers, Timothy Darvill, and Barbara J. Little
Gainesville :
University Press of Florida,
c2005
xviii, 339 p. :
ill., maps ;
24 cm
Cultural heritage studies
Includes bibliographical references and index
Introduction: archaeological value in a world context / Clay Mathers, Timothy Darvill, and Barbara J. Little -- Archaeology and heritage. "Sorted for ease and whiz"?: approaching value and importance in archaeological resource management / Timothy Darvill ; Good citizens and sound economics: the trajectory of archaeology in Britain from "heritage" to "resource" / John Carman ; Shaping and suppressing the archaeological record: significance in American cultural resource management / Joseph A. Tainter and Bonnie Bagley -- Archaeology in context. Archaeological significance and the governance of identity in cultural heritage management / Laurajane Smith ; "Rigidity and a changing order ... disorder, degeneracy and daemonic repetition": fluidity of cultural values and cultural heritage management / W.E. Boyd ... [et al.] ; The U.S. National Register of Historic Places and the shaping of archaeological significance / Barbara J. Little ; Reassessing archaeological significance: heritage of value and archaeology of renown in Brazil / Pedro Paulo A. Funari ; Plastic value: archaeological significance in South Africa / Gavin Whitelaw -- Judging value and importance. "Drawing distinctions": toward a scalar model of value and significance / Clay Mathers, John Schelberg, and Ronald Kneebone ; Significance in American cultural resource management: lost in the past / Jeffrey H. Altschul ; Archaeological deposits and value / Jane Grenville and Ian Richie ; Archaeological and indigenous significance: a view from Australia / Ian Lilley and Michael Williams ; Sacredness, sensitivity, and significance: the controversy over native American sacred sites / Sherene Baugher ; Traditional cultural properties and the national preservation program in the United States / Nina Swidler and Michael Yeatts -- Managing valued places. Handling the unknown: the expanding role of predictive modeling in archaeological heritage management in the Netherlands / Jos Deeben and Bert Groenewoudt ; Assessing the cultural significance of world heritage sites: a case study from Avebury, Wiltshire, England / Melanie C. Pomeroy ; The bigger picture: archaeology and values in long term cultural resource management / Kate Clark