The Management of Archeological Resources: The Airlie House Report

Description

Editors: McGimsey, Charles R. III (1925-2015) and Davis, Hester A. (1930-2014)

Publisher: Society fro American Archaeology

Pub Date: 1977

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Fair.  Binding tight.  No marks, tears.  It’s been around the block, but only as a tourist.  Edge and corner wear.  Scuffing to front cover.

Notes:  Six, week-long seminars on “Archaeology of the Future.”  The preface seems to indicate a veiled threat to the archaeological community–“No results? No money.”  Hence, let’s get together and talk about what we must do for the future.  Six subjects: Archaeology as a profession, CRM, Report guidelines, information dissemination, archaeology and the law, and archaeology and the American Indian.  McGimsey was a founder of the Arkansas Archaeological Survey.  I like their volumes.  They’re thoughtful, well-produced, hard to come by.  For an appreciation of McGimsey, see https://news.uark.edu/articles/26428/founder-director-of-arkansas-archeological-survey-remembered-as-eloquent-activist   For a very nice biography of Davis, also a cofounder of the Arkansas Archaeological Survey,  see https://encyclopediaofarkansas.net/entries/hester-ashmead-davis-8469/