Cultural Resource Laws and Practice, Second Edition [Hardcover]

Thomas F. King (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: June 2004 | ISBN-10: 0759104735 | ISBN-13: 978-0759104730 | Edition: Second Edition

Renowned cultural resource management consultant Thomas F. King demystifies this web of regulations surrounding this field, providing frank, practical advice on how to ensure regulatory compliance in dealing with archaeological sites, historic buildings, urban districts, sacred sites and objects, shipwrecks, and archives. In this brief, informally written guide, he discusses the various federal laws that govern the protection of resources, how they have been interpreted, how they operate in practice, and even how they sometimes contradict each other. The author also provides helpful guidance to the wide array of federal, state, and tribal offices that are concerned with cultural resources management and the special challenges of working with each. In this new edition, King reports on changes in cultural resource laws, regulations, and executive orders in the past five years and adds material on Section 106 review, NEPA, and the 'Preserve America' executive order. King's insider's guide is an essential tool for CRM work by archaeologists, historic preservationists, environmentalists, tribal governments, agency managers, and students.

Editorial Reviews

Review

It is fortunate that one of our country's premier cultural resource practitioners has brought his thinking together in a succinct tome. It should be read by all those practicing in, or hoping to practice in, the cultural resource and historic preservation arenas. (Eric C. Petersen High Plains Applied Anthropologist )

Praise for the first edition: Public historians who work in CRM will value this book as an excellent manual on CRM. Its presentation is logically organized, thorough-going on the most useful topics, and easy to understand....A valuable reference work..... (Beverly E.Bastian Public Historian )

Praise for the first edition: If you want to get some idea about what the laws and regs say, what they are supposed to mean, and how to Manipulate the System, keep this book at ready....If I were teaching a course in cultural resource management or public archaeology, I would use this as a text. If I were in a position where I had to advise decision-makers, I would find this book constantly useful.... (Hester A. Davis Historical Archaeology )

King's is still the gold-standard reference to CRM and historic preservation. (Jason Younker )

Logically organized, appropriately referenced, and generally easy to read and understand. . . . First as a graduate student and later as a principal archaeologists at two CRM firms, I depended on King's previous publications and the first edition of Cultural Resource Laws and Practice to effectively guide me through the morass of CRM rules and regulations. Now a professor, I use the second edition to teach my students about the business of archaeology and the laws that protect our country's historic resources. Much like Thomas F. King himself, this book is a classic in the CRM firm and an indispensible asset. (Thomas A. Crist, Utica College Historical Archaeology )

Praise for the first edition: The author, Tom King, is the best thinker about CRM in the United States. (Tom Green Lithic Technology )

Praise for the first edition: If you want to get some idea about what the laws and regs say, what they are supposed to mean, and how to Manipulate the System, keep this book at ready....If I were teaching a course in cultural resource management or public archaeology, I would use this as a text. If I were in a position where I had to advise decision-makers, I would find this book constantly useful. (Hester A. Davis Historical Archaeology )

Praise for the first edition: Public historians who work in CRM will value this book as an excellent manual on CRM. Its presentation is logically organized, thorough-going on the most useful topics, and easy to understand....A valuable reference work. (Beverly E.Bastian Public Historian )

About the Author

Thomas F. King has worked in historic preservation since the mid-1960s as an academic, a contractor, and a government official. During 1977-79 he organized historic preservation programs in the islands of Micronesia, and from 1979-88 he oversaw Section 106 review for the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation. He is the author of four AltaMira Press books on cultural resource management among his many writings on this topic and is in demand as a workshop instructor on the subject. King is also archaeologist for the Amelia Earhart Project and author of Amelia Earhart's Shoes (updated edition, 2004).

Product Details

• Hardcover: 304 pages
• Publisher: Altamira Press; Second Edition edition (June 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0759104735
• ISBN-13: 978-0759104730
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 1.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.8 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #6,097,447 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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I got interested in archaeology at a tender age, and was a teen-aged pothunter by age 15.
But in about 1966, as an undergraduate at San Francisco State University (then College) surviving on the GI Bill and work in 'salvage archaeology,' I fell in with a remarkable fellow student named Eric Barnes, who mixed art and urban planning with anthropology in his creative brain, and he introduced me to a law just signed into law by President Lyndon Johnson ' the National Historic Preservation Act. Eric felt that it might be used to preserve and manage archaeological sites, rather than simply to get them dug up before they were destroyed. He convinced me, and my career lurched away from mainstream academic archaeology into what we now call 'cultural resource management' or CRM.

Over the next ten years I oversaw the UCLA Archaeological Survey, helped set up the Archaeological Research Unit at the University of California, Riverside and completed a PhD there in Anthropology, did fieldwork in California's North Coast Range, Sierra Nevada, and Mojave and Colorado Deserts, and along the Pacific coast from Los Angeles north to the Oregon border. I set up a private consulting firm in northern California, took part in litigation, helped organize the Society for California Archaeology, and helped coordinate a legislative effort that would have established a state archaeological survey, modeled on one in Arkansas, had the legislation to create it not fallen to a veto by Governor Ronald Reagan. Becoming unemployable in California, I was enabled by the late, great New York State archaeologist Marian White to shuffle across the continent to Buffalo to set up a contract archaeology program for the New York Archaeological Council. I lasted a bit over a year on the Niagara Frontier before being recruited by the National Park Service to help write regulations and guidelines for the newly enacted Archaeological and Historic Preservation Act. I was a bit over a year in Washington DC before being 'detailed' to Saipan in the Northern Mariana Islands to help the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands with its historic preservation programs. A tough job, but somebody had to do it.

Returning to the mainland in 1977, having established a pattern of employment suggesting that I'd never work anyplace for more than two years at a time, I was honored to be asked by the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation to head the office that nagged Federal agencies nationwide about compliance with Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act. This took me back to Washington, where I actually worked for ten years with the Council, through the Reagan administration and the beginning of Bush I. Policy disputes then led me to quit in a huff and go back into private practice, where I remain to this day. At various times in the last sixteen years or so I've worked intensively for agencies like the General Services Administration, the Department of Defense, and the Farm Service Agency in the Department of Agriculture, and consulted a good deal with Indian tribes and Native Hawaiian groups, besides authoring several textbooks and a number journal articles on CRM topics. I've taught short classes for the University of Nevada, Reno and the National Preservation Institute, and now both teach and consult with SWCA Environmental Consultants (www.swca.com). And I've returned to archaeology as the volunteer Senior Archaeologist on The International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery's Amelia Earhart Search Project ' read all about it at www.tighar.org or in Amelia Earhart's Shoes (AltaMira Press 2004). Most recently I've tried my hand at a novel -- "Thirteen Bones," Dog Ear Press 2010-- built around the 1940 discovery of what were probably Earhart's bones on Nikumaroro in the Phoenix Islands.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Essential Resource for Historic Preservation (2nd Edition), August 27, 2009

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Lance M. Foster "Solvitur ambulando" (Helena, Montana, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Cultural Resource Laws and Practice, Second Edition (Paperback)

This is the second edition of _Cultural Resource Laws and Practice_, with revisions as of 2004. This title continues to be the best single resource for an overview of the complex world of historic preservation compliance process and legal authorities (laws, etc.). The 2004 edition (2nd edition) shows an increasing focus on environmental justice and expanding access for the variety of stakeholders, notably Native American tribes and other indigenous groups. This expansion and greater voice given to Native Peoples has created much controversy among the archaeological community. Some archaeologists embraced the changes and new opportunities for collaboration with tribes. Others felt the changes to be problematic for their customary ways of doing archaeology, especially when dealing with burials and other matters dealt with in NAGPRA. This controversy began long before the first passage of NAGPRA in 1990, and continues through the present (2009), almost 20 years as of this review. Thomas King has been a tireless advocate for a more inclusionary process, for both Native Americans and for other generally excluded public stakeholders in the U.S., and that has made him a controversial if not demonized figure in some archaeological and development circles.

The second edition covers the following topics:

PART ONE: BACKGROUND AND OVERVIEW

1. Introduction: The Voice of the People

2. A Brief History of U.S. Cultural Resource Management

3. The Players (Advisory Council, EPA, CEQ, Federal Agencies, NPS, SHPO, THPO, Applicants, etc.)

PART TWO: LAW AND PRACTICE

4. The Umbrella: The National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA)

5. Impacts on Historic Properties: Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act (NHPA)

6. Other Cultural Resource Authorities (NAGPRA, Native American Religious Practices- AIRFA, Executive Order 13007, Environmental Justice- EO 12898, Social Impact Statements, Landscapes, Archaeology, Historic Documents, Shipwrecks, and more)

PART THREE: BRINGING IT ALL TOGETHER

7. Comprehensive Cultural Resource Impact Assessment

8. Cultural Resource Management Plans

9. The Future

End matter includes a Bibliography, some Internet sites (as of 2004), Acronyms, Abbreviations and Terms, Definitions, Laws, Executive Orders, and Regulations, a model Section 106 Memorandum of Agreement, a model NAGPRA Plan of Action, and index.

This is a fantastic resource I referred to often in my time in historic preservation. It offers the broadest point of view under historic preservation principles and practices, and especially as indicated in the letter and spirit of the law. One of the most important aspects of the book is how King shows the reasoning and process in numerous examples. It, or the latest edition of the book, should be an essential resource on the shelf of every historic preservation specialist (archaeologists, architects, archivists, landscape architects, historians, etc.), tribal officer, development corporation, resource managers and attorneys, and community advocates. Clearly and accessibly written. Highest recommendation.