Cultural Resource Management in the Great Basin 19862016

The 14 papers on cultural resource management are from a symposium at a Great Basic Anthropology conference in Reno, Nevada during October 2016. Among the topics are a state historical preservation office perspective on cultural resources management: lessons learned, programmatic agreements and the growing process of inclusion, tribal consultation in Nevada and eastern California: a 30-year program evolution in the Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest, better with time: past challenges and future directions in Great Basic historical archaeology, and what we knew then and what we know now: 30 years of cultural resources management archaeology in the Great Basin. Annotation ©2019 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)
University of Utah Anthropological Paper No. 131 Cultural Resource Management (CRM) refers to the discovery, evaluation, and preservation of culturally significant sites, focusing on but not limited to archaeological and historical sites of significance. CRM stems from the National Historic Preservation Act, passed in 1966. In 1986, archaeologists reviewed the practice of CRM in the Great Basin. They concluded that it was mainly a system of finding, flagging, and avoiding&;a means of keeping sites and artifacts safe. Success was measured by counting the number of sites recorded and acres surveyed. This volume provides an updated review some thirty years later. The product of a 2016 symposium, its measures are the increase in knowledge obtained through CRM projects and the inclusion of tribes, the general public, industry, and others in the discovery and interpretation of Great Basin prehistory and history. Revealing both successes and shortcomings, it considers how CRM can face the challenges of the future. Chapters offer a variety of perspectives, covering highway archaeology, inclusion of Native American tribes, and the legacy of the NHPA, among other topics.