ABSTRACT
Chapter 13 discusses the management of the archaeological record, which is facing a long fight for its survival in the face of the twenty-first century’s industrialized world. What is known in the United States as Cultural Resource Management, and elsewhere by a variety of names, is, in the final analysis, variety of strategies developed to manage the archaeological record for future generations. We summarize some of the key U.S. federal legislation that encompasses the protection of archaeological sites, then describe the three stages of CRM investigation that constitute compliance with federal law. Native Americans play an important role in CRM. Chapter 14 explores what is generically called Public Archaeology, which confronts the issue of stakeholders in our collective past.
