1. Is there a future for the past? Chaco Culture National Historical Park Larry J. Zimmerman

2. What does the past mean? How do you ‘connect’ to it? San Rock Art, Eastern Cape, South Africa How do you use it?

3. What are Heritage Resources? Chaco Canyon Pottery What is heritage?

4. Districts, buildings, sites, structures, and objects significant in a culture’s history, architecture, archaeology, and engineering, which possess integrity of location, setting, design materials, workmanship, and feeling and association

5. Who Owns the Past? Is it a public heritage? Is it owned by those from whose culture it originated? Crow Creek Massacre Remains, South Dakota, circa AD 1325

6. Crow Creek Massacre Reburial, 1981

7. The Struggle for Kennewick/The Ancient One

8. Does it matter who tells the story?

9. US?

10. Or them?

11. Obviously, many of us have strong opinions about it.

12. Purposeful Destruction of Heritage

13. Destruction of the Stone Buddhas of Bamiyan in Central Afghanistan

14. Taliban Religious Fervor March 8, 2001

15. A Plan for Restoration? Painted ceiling of one Buddha

16. December 6, 1992 Destruction of the Babri Masjid Mosque, Ayohdya, India

17. What Happens Next?

18. Sacred Sites and Traditional Cultural Properties? Bear Butte SD Should we protect US laws say we should.

19. Traditional Cultural Properties Eligible for inclusion in the National register of Historic Places because of their "association with cultural practices or beliefs of a living community that a)are rooted in that community's history, b)are important in maintaining the continuing cultural identity of the community.

20. Is imitation heritage still heritage?

21. Lascaux II: The Price of Heritage Tourism

22. From Stonehenge…

23. and New Age Solstice Rituals… England, 2003

24. … to Foamhenge Natural Bridge, Virginia

25. Can heritage be restored?

26. The Great Sphinx Restoration Project

27. Angkor, Cambodia Restoration Project

28. Restoration of Angkor A multinational enterprise

29. Closer to Home Morris-Butler Home Walker Building Union StationAngel Mounds, Evansville

30. In developed nations, heritage management is an industry in its own right.

31. Same here in the USA

32. US Cultural Resources Management National Historic Preservation Act, 1966 and the National Register of Historic Places

33. That are associated with events that have made a significant contribution to the broad patterns of our history; or That are associated with the lives of significant persons in our past; or That embody the distinctive characteristics of a type, period, or method of construction, or that represent the work of a master, or that possess high artistic values, or that represent a significant and distinguishable entity whose components may lack individual distinction; or That have yielded, or may be likely to yield, information important in history or prehistory. How do we know what’s significant? Sites or objects:

34. National Park Service oversees the CRM process in the US.

35. Cultural Resources Management and Archaeology CRM is approximately a $125,000,000 industry in the US annually. CRM is largest employer of archaeologists at all levels of education. CRM is the largest employer of BA level anthropology graduates. CRM, a free journal from NPS

36. Who Pays the Bills? You!

37. What should you get for your money? Tourism? Opportunities to work on excavations?

38. Materials at your level?

39. Museums?

40. Popular culture?

41. Television shows? Books and CDs?

42. How does the public learn about their heritage? Society for American Archaeology Harris Poll, 2000

43. Is it worth it? That would be your call…