Assessing Site Significance: A Guide for Archaeologists and Historians

by Donald L. Hardesty, Barbara J. Little

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.

Genres: Archaeology, History

254 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2000

Reviews

[Chuck · Rating 5 out of 5]

Consulted this book regularly while serving as the review and compliance archaeologist at the Department of Archives and History in South Carolina. This book should be on the shelf of every practising CRM archaeologist.

[Cheery · Rating 4 out of 5]

Excellent resource.