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Heritage Management at Fort Hood, Texas: experiments in historic landscape characterisation (Paperback)
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Heritage Management at Fort Hood, Texas: experiments in historic landscape characterisation (Paperback)
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The landscape of Fort Hood, in central Texas, presents
archaeologists and cultural resource managers with some of their
most exacting but absorbing challenges. That much is clear from the
activities of the many archaeologists and heritage managers who
have sought to use the extensive cultural database and unique
landscape of the base as a test bed for research and management
methodologies. This project, carried out as an international
collaboration between the Fort Hood Cultural Resource Management
Team and the Institute of Archaeology and Antiquity (University of
Birmingham, UK), sought to provide a novel application of historic
landscape characterisation (HLC) methodologies at the base. For
decades, the effective stewardship and management of cultural
resources at Fort Hood, Texas, has proven to be a formidable
challenge. Balancing this responsibility with the Army mission at
Fort Hood, which includes ongoing intensive mechanized training
across a 217,000-acre military reservation, has tested the
abilities of even the most capable of cultural resource managers.
The identification of over 2,000 archaeological sites on the
installation, while a great accomplishment, pales in comparison to
the demands of determining site significance. Now, with this
innovative historic landscape characterization study, the authors
have presented us with an extraordinary opportunity to view these
resources within the context of a cultural landscape that
systematically considers the multiple roles of Fort Hood. It is
hoped that this will facilitate the move from significance
determinations that are site-specific to ones based upon, as the
authors state, the concepts of group value and spatial
relationships at a landscape level. The accompanying CD (displaying
selected data layers provided as Google Earth layers) assists
readers in viewing and interpreting the data and the value of HLC
procedures and output for the purposes of heritage management.
Contents: 1. The Origins and Aims of the Fort Hood Historic
Landscape Characterisation Project; 2) Approaches to historic
landscape characterisation; 3) Fort Hood in Context; 4) The Fort
Hood archaeological database; 5) The historic landscape
characterisation project.
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