Archaeological Heritage Management in the Modern World by Henry Cleere

Author:Henry Cleere [Cleere, Henry]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780415214483
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Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 1990-11-08T00:00:00+00:00

15 Heritage management and training in England

ANDREW SAUNDERS

Definitions

The phrase ‘cultural resource management’ first registered on British ears at the Conference of the Society for American Archaeology at Dallas in 1975. Although in use, the phrase still does not come easily to English-speaking archaeologists on this side of the Atlantic, and certainly not to the ordinary person. Here the equivalent jargon expression is the ‘heritage’.

We distinguish between the natural and the man-made heritage. By the latter we mean the built environment (sites, monuments and historic areas); that is, the surviving patterns of successive land use and settlement, whether domestic, ceremonial, funerary, economic or defensive, from prehistoric times onwards to include the recent past. With these archaeological survivals we include buildings of architectural and historic importance, and the townscape and street pattern of our historic towns. However, in Great Britain we also distinguish between the built environment and portable antiquities and works of art. These are administered separately in legislative and practical terms. They belong to the province of our national and local museums, public and private. These objects and their safekeeping lie mainly outside the scope of this chapter, although it will be seen that museum management is not irrelevant to our subject. The separation, however, of sites (buried archaeological remains, historic sites and earthworks) and monuments (standing structures, whether roofed, inhabited or ruined) from museums and the objects that they contain is a distinction which is also maintained internationally by Unesco. The International Council on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS), whose parent body is Unesco, has its counterpart in the International Council for Museums (ICOM).

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