ABSTRACT
Cultural Resource Management (CRM) involves managing a range of cultural resource types in addition to archaeological resources. The most obvious difference is how CRM is enmeshed in the planning procedures for public undertakings to a much greater extent than ever was the case for emergency/salvage archaeology. The Denver CRM conference was a gathering of individuals who had key roles at the national, regional, state, and local levels in what was then the developing CRM approach. In the late 1960s and early 1970s, archaeologists worked with Congress to achieve broader attention to the adverse impacts to archaeological resources of a wide array of federally sponsored construction projects and development programs. In part because of the consideration of cultural resources in project planning, CRM archaeology involves many more investigations that focus on identification and evaluation of resources than emergency/salvage archaeology did. The publication provides a detailed picture of the topics and concerns of individuals involved in the early developments of CRM.
