Avoiding Archaeological Disasters: Risk Management for Heritage Professionals
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Overview
You think it can’t happen to you, but it can. One day, months into your construction project, your front end load operator runs into bones and wooden slats. Your county coroner says it is not a crime scene, and refers you to the local archaeology department. The archaeologist tells you that it is a very important discovery. Work stops. Archaeological discoveries happen all the time in the course of projects. Most are manageable, some are less so, and some are mismanaged, wasting time and money. If you are not prepared, the consequences can be disastrous. This book is for project engineers, project managers, construction managers, the staff of affected government agencies, and archaeological consultants. In its pages you receive enough information, enough archaeological perspective, to intelligently work with the various parties involved in your project and avoid an archaeological disaster.Synopsis
This book is for project engineers and managers, government staff and consultants to help avoid unforseen archaeological problems in construction and development projects.
Editorials
From the Publisher
"Avoiding Archaeological Disasters is appropriate for all audiences and should be required reading for all archaeologists. [This book] is written specifically for project managers and archaeologists, both applied and academic. [Its] strength lies in its ability to communicate in an accessible way what are otherwise complex and rarely discussed issues, particularly in the context of Northwest Coast archaeology."
— Rich Hutchings, The Midden