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Assessing Site Significance is an invaluable resource for
archaeologists and others who need guidance in determining whether
sites are eligible for listing in the National Register of Historic
Places (NRHP). Because the register's eligibility criteria were
largely developed for standing sites, it is difficult to know in
any particular case whether a site known primarily through
archaeological work has sufficient 'historical significance' to be
listed. Hardesty and Little address these challenges, describing
how to file for NRHP eligibility and how to determine the
historical significance of archaeological properties. This second
edition brings everything up to date, and includes new material on
17th- and 18th-century sites, traditional cultural properties,
shipwrecks, Japanese internment camps, and military properties.
Mining played a prominent role in the shaping and settling of the
American West in the nineteenth century. Following the discovery of
the famous Comstock Lode in Nevada in 1859, mining became
increasingly industrialized, changing mining technology, society,
and culture throughout the world. In the wake of these changes
Nevada became an important mining region, with new people and
technologies further altering the ways mining was pursued and
miners interacted. Historical archaeology offers a research
strategy for understanding mining and miners that integrates three
independent sources of information about the past: physical
remains, documents, and oral testimony. "Mining Archaeology in the
American West" explores mining culture and practices through the
microcosm of Nevada's mining frontier. The history of mining
technology, the social and cultural history of miners and mining
societies, and the landscapes and environments of mining are topics
examined in this multifocus research. In this updated and expanded
edition of the seminal work on mining in Nevada, Donald Hardesty
brings scholarship up to the present with important new research
and insights into how people, technology, culture, architecture,
and landscape changed during this period of mining history.
Assessing Site Significance is an invaluable resource for
archaeologists and others who need guidance in determining whether
sites are eligible for listing in the National Register of Historic
Places (NRHP). Because the register's eligibility criteria were
largely developed for standing sites, it is difficult to know in
any particular case whether a site known primarily through
archaeological work has sufficient "historical significance" to be
listed. Hardesty and Little address these challenges, describing
how to file for NRHP eligibility and how to determine the
historical significance of archaeological properties. This second
edition brings everything up to date, and includes new material on
17th- and 18th-century sites, traditional cultural properties,
shipwrecks, Japanese internment camps, and military properties.
Carole L. Crumley has brought together top scholars from across
anthropology in a benchmark volume that displays the range of
exciting new work on the complex relationship between humans and
the environment. Continually pursuing anthropology's persistent
claim that both the physical and the mental world matter, these
environmental scholars proceed from the holistic assumption that
the physical world and human societies are always inextricably
linked. As they incorporate diverse forms of knowledge, their work
reaches beyond anthropology to bridge the sciences, social
sciences, and the humanities, and to forge working relationships
with non-academic communities and professionals. Theoretical issues
such as the cultural dimensions of context, knowledge, and power
are articulated alongside practical discussions of building
partnerships, research methods and ethics, and strategies for
implementing policy. New Directions in Environment and Anthropology
will be important for all scholars and non-academics interested in
the relation between our species and its biotic and built
environments. It is also designed for classroom use in and beyond
anthropology, and students will be greatly assisted by suggested
reading lists for their further exploration of general concepts and
specific research. Learn more about the author at the University of
North Carolina Anthropology Department web pages.
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