| Approaches to the Archaeological Heritage Contributor(s): Cleere, Henry (Author), Cleere, Henry (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0521112249 ISBN-13: 9780521112246 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $39.89 Product Type: Paperback Published: June 2009 Annotation: This book undertakes a comparative study of the history and development of legislative and administrative systems in operation today for the protection of archaeological monuments. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Archaeology |
| Dewey: 363.69 |
| Series: New Directions in Archaeology |
| Physical Information: 0.33" H x 8.25" W x 11" (0.79 lbs) 152 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This book undertakes a comparative study of the history and development of legislative and administrative systems in operation today for the protection of archaeological monuments. With the exception of Scandinavia and the United Kingdom, no country adopted a positive policy towards the protection and conservation of its archaeological and historical heritage until the twentieth century. Moreover, it was not until the middle of that century, under the threat of wholesale devastation from extensive schemes for social and economic development, that the accelerating disappearance of the sites and monuments of Antiquity became the object of intensive study and legislation. Since then systems of cultural resource management have developed throughout the world. A range of countries (from Europe, America, Asia and Africa) representing a diversity of political and ideological systems - capitalist, socialist and ex-colonial - have been selected as being broadly representative of the variety of these systems. The case studies have been written by distinguished archaeologists and provide critical evaluations of the objectives and shortcomings of these systems. |