ABSTRACT
This chapter deals with problems concerning development activities in the Third World from the archaeological point of view. The problems of archaeological resource management in developing countries may seem extremely unlike those in the ‘developed’ parts of the world. The concept of culture was redefined in an anthropological way as ‘the collection of values, aspirations, beliefs, patterns of behaviour and interpersonal relations, established or predominating, within a given social group or society’. The chapter establishes the fact that in almost all of these cases there are major cultural consequences for the ‘beneficiary’ populations. It also identifies the non-participatory character and exogenous nature of development in the Third World as one of the reasons why the cultural side often is neglected.
