ABSTRACT
This chapter is the written and expanded version of a poster session presented at the “GIS in Archaeology Conference” held at Argonne National Laboratory in 2001 and the “Society for American Archaeology Conference” at Denver, CO, in 2002. The original intention of developing the poster session was to present information gathered from the author’s personal experience as an environmental scientist/assessor involved in a federally regulated project that was concerned with protection of natural and cultural resources. Given my professional experience in archaeology and cultural resource management (CRM) as well, the environmental firm looked to me as a specialist who
they believed could provide additional skills and knowledge in this area to benefit the overall project. It was within the experiences of this project that the extent of the gap between management of natural versus cultural resources in the environmental industry became clear.
