ABSTRACT
One of the problems with the field variously known as archaeological heritage management (AHM), archaeological resource management (ARM) and cultural resource management (CRM) is that it is seen as a branch of archaeology constituted entirely by practice and therefore essentially non-theoretical. Accordingly, there is a paucity of research in the field (Carman 1991) and its practitioners are relegated to a process of mere training (Carman in press). The field is separated from other branches of archaeology-particularly academic archaeology-to its detriment, and one purpose of my own research is to close this unnecessary and unhelpful rift.
