Cultural Resource Laws and Practice

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Demystifies regulation surrounding identification and protection of American cultural resources and provides frank advice on how to ensure regulatory compliance in dealing with archaeological sites, historic buildings, urban districts, sacred sites and objects, shipwrecks, and archives. Discusses various federal laws that govern the protection of resources, and provides guidance on the wide array of federal, state, and tribal offices concerned with cultural resources management. The author has been actively involved in cultural resources management practice for about three decades. Paper edition (9044-5), $22.95. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Steve Black

Tom King has played a unique role in CRM as one of the architects of the original Section 106 regulations and the discipline’s most articulate explicator and critic. This purportedly final edition has updated regulatory detail, recent examples, and sharpened critique. This book is essential reading for those interested in historic preservation including CRM practitioners and civil servants.One hopes that the latter might actually heed King’s well-reasoned rejoinders for the critical need to reform the regulation and management of our nation’s cultural resources.

Ned Kaufman

Each of King’s books is a must read, and Cultural Resource Laws and Practice most of all. In it, King transforms the complexities of heritage management into a veritable page-turner. Like the first edition, this fourth is a definitive how-to guide. But it’s also a critique, based on decades of experience. Readers will value Cultural Resource Laws and Practice as much for King’s insights on changing the system as for his instructions on working it.

High Plains Applied Anthropologist

It is fortunate that one of our country's premier cultural resource practitioners has brought his thinking together in a succinct tome. It should be read by all those practicing in, or hoping to practice in, the cultural resource and historic preservation arenas.
— Eric C. Petersen

Public Historian

Public historians who work in CRM will value this book as an excellent manual on CRM. Its presentation is logically organized, thorough-going on the most useful topics, and easy to understand....A valuable reference work.
— Beverly E.Bastian

Historical Archaeology

If you want to get some idea about what the laws and regs say, what they are supposed to mean, and how to Manipulate the System, keep this book at ready....If I were teaching a course in cultural resource management or public archaeology, I would use this as a text. If I were in a position where I had to advise decision-makers, I would find this book constantly useful.
— Hester A. Davis

Lithic Technology

The author, Tom King, is the best thinker about CRM in the United States.
— Tom Green