ABSTRACT
In governance contexts, the archaeologist's agenda is seldom articulated baldly as servicing the needs of archaeologists. Importantly, however, the status quo in archaeology is changing regardless of whether archaeologists act. State priorities are shifting to more directly address cultural heritage beyond archaeological agendas. Despite the valiant efforts of individual archaeological resource management (ARM) archaeologists, a chronic personal dimension of an ethical and transformative ARM practice can often be a continual apologia for the behavior and choices of other ARM archaeologists. This doctrine is recognizable beyond archaeology because archaeologists vigorously and continually advocate these views to nonarchaeologists and to the next generations of academic, applied, and ARM archaeologists. The conviction drives the extractive-consumptive imperative in ARM As such, a sustainable archaeology is, at its core, about conceptually shifting practice from pursuing archaeological agendas to servicing the full spectrum of values that converge where heritage is made and carried forward.
