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The Role of Museums in Cultural Resource Management

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Andrew L. Christenson
Andrew L. Christenson*
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Department of Anthropology, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90024
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Abstract

Cultural resource management is often considered to end when endangered resources are collected or excavated. Actually, this is only an early step in the process. An increasing proportion of our preserved cultural heritage is being managed in museums, and it is in museums that much future archaeological research will have to be done. This brief essay reviews the role of museums in cultural resource management and points to the need for a careful evaluation of the adequacy of current archaeological curation systems.

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Cultural Resource Management
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American Antiquity , Volume 44 , Issue 1 , January 1979 , pp. 161 - 163
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Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1979

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