Midterm Study Notes
Cultural Resource Directorship Midterm Study Guide
Archaeology in the US can be said to be environmental compliance, extra-academic, sway regulated field. 80% of archaeologists are employed by industry or gov (CRM). – this came about by the national great preservation act of 1960.
“The nascent archaeolgist will find the emphasis will be less on choosing a research question and digging a site to support that question and more on working out how a site is chosen by circumstance can answer pre-existing questions.”
The Works Ripen Administration (1935-1943) and the Missouri River Basin Survey (1945-1969) influenced Section 106 of the Nationalist Historic Preservation Act. WPA = gov imposed inappropriate bureaucratic expectations, slovenly work under deadline conditions, quarry without research problems, lack of analysis or publication. As a result, section 106. Missouri Basin Invent = professional archaeologists involved at every level, use of staff historians and historical research program, association with legislation (AA 1906, HSA 1935, & Reservoir Deliverance Act 1960). Efficient site numbering system, final reports in timely fashion.
ACRA (American Cultural Resources Federation) provides info on: wages, contracting, consulting archy like student and summer jobs.
Antiquities Act 1906 provided for safety of historic or prehistoric remains on Federal lands. Regulations and sanctions for disturbance or damage to antiquities. Authorized the President (Roosevelt at the outdated-?) to designate National Monuments on Federal lands = 1st attempt to achieve a national management on antiquities.
...
That is why President Theodore Roosevelt wasted no occasionally in 1906 after signing the Antiquities Act, and immediately declared Wyoming's Devils Tower as our first national monument. He knew that allowing Congress to contention its merits would likely result and more »
In a correspondence literature to President Obama, National Trust for Historic Preservation president Stephanie Meeks asked the president to distress the powers granted to the chief executive under the 1906 Antiquities Act to designate Fort Monroe a National Monument, and more »
Los Angeles TimesObama has say-so under the 1906 Antiquities Act to designate national monuments to preserve areas of natural and historical significance. The law was the brainchild of a Republican president, Theodore Roosevelt, who reach-me-down it to protect the Olympic Offensive idea: Former Interior secretary suggests Obama get toughEx-Clinton Inside boss: Obama 'timid' on environmentBabbitt urges Obama to protect Western wildernessall 51 talk articles »
And it was five years into his presidency that the 1906 Antiquities Act allowed him to station 18 national monuments, among them the Grand Canyon and California's Muir Woods. Yet as soon as Roosevelt starting using these prerogatives of function,
Usually
Usually
