Download presentation
Presentation is loading. Please wait.
Published byNeal McCoy Modified over 9 years ago
1
Cultural Heritage and its Management Chaco Culture National Historical Park Larry J. Zimmerman
2
What does the past mean? How do we ‘connect’ to it? San Rock Art, Eastern Cape, South Africa How do we 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
Is imitation heritage still heritage?
19
Lascaux II: The Price of Heritage Tourism
20
From Stonehenge…
21
and New Age Solstice Rituals… England, 2003
22
… to Foamhenge Natural Bridge, Virginia
23
Can heritage be restored?
24
The Great Sphinx Restoration Project
25
Angkor, Cambodia Restoration Project
26
Restoration of Angkor A multinational enterprise
27
Closer to Home Morris-Butler Home Walker Building Union StationAngel Mounds, Evansville
28
In developed nations, heritage management is an industry in its own right.
29
Same here in the USA
30
National Park Service oversees the CRM process in the US.
31
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
32
US Cultural Resources Management National Historic Preservation Act, 1966 and the National Register of Historic Places
33
What is the National Register of Historic Places? The National Register is maintained by the National Park Service, Department of Interior. It is the nation’s official list of districts, buildings, sites, structures, and objects documented as significant to American history, architecture & archaeology, but… …defined at the local level.
34
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:
35
Sacred Sites and Traditional Cultural Properties Bear Butte SD
36
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.
37
Broadlawns, Burial Mounds, and Cell Towers TCPs and CRM: A Case Study from Iowa
39
Two Woodland Tradition Burial Mounds Damaged
40
Taking Down the Tower
41
The crane alone cost about $120,000!
42
What’s left to get rid of? Plenty!
43
Unfortunately, only one of the mounds
44
The Hospital, State Archaeologist, Iowa Indian Advisory Board, and the Cell Phone Company agree on what to do… …rebuild the mounds and restore the area. Howard Matalba Maria Pearson, Shirley Schermer, Steve Dasovich
45
The Process Selecting Clean Fill Strip off the ground cover
46
Cleaning up the site
47
Jackhammer away the top 3’ of the support
48
Figuring out the height of the mound
49
Bringing in Fill
50
Moundbuilding, 2001
51
Seeding and installing natural ground cover
52
Watching the grass grow
53
The Cost? About $1,500,000 $85,000 for landscaping $200,000 for ground work $120,000 for the crane $1,195,000 for two new towers
Similar presentations
© 2024 SlidePlayer.com Inc.
All rights reserved.