A Companion to Cultural Resource Management is an essential guide to those wishing to gain a deeper understanding of CRM and heritage management. Expert contributors share their knowledge and illustrate CRM's practice and scope, as well as the core issues and realities in preserving cultural heritages worldwide.

• Edited by one of the world's leading experts in the field of cultural resource management, with contributions by a wide range of experts, including archaeologists, architectural historians, museum curators, historians, and representatives of affected groups
• Offers a broad view of cultural resource management that includes archaeological sites, cultural landscapes, historic structures, shipwrecks, scientific and technological sites and objects, as well as intangible resources such as language, religion, and cultural values
• Highlights the realities that face CRM practitioners "on the ground"

• A Companion to Cultural Resource Management 6
  • Contents 8
  • Notes on Contributors 11
  • Acknowledgments 19
  • Introduction 20
  • Part I General Classes of Cultural Resources 30
    • 1 Studying and Evaluating the Built Environment 32
    • 2 Principles of Architectural Preservation 48
    • 3 Archaeology of the Distant Past 73
    • 4 Archaeology of the Recent Past 97
    • 5 Geographies of Cultural Resource Management: Space, Place and Landscape 114
    • 6 Culturally Significant Natural Resources: Where Nature and Culture Meet 133
    • 7 History as a Cultural Resource 147
    • 8 Portable Cultural Property: “This Belongs in a Museum?” 160
    • 9 “Intangible” Cultural Resources: Values are in the Mind 175