Assessing Site Significance is an invaluable resource for archaeologists and others who need guidance in determining whether sites are eligible for listing in the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP). Because the register's eligibility criteria were largely developed for standing sites, it is difficult to know in any particular case whether a site known primarily through archaeological work has sufficient 'historical significance' to be listed. Hardesty and Little address these challenges, describing how to file for NRHP eligibility and how to determine the historical significance of archaeological properties. This second edition brings everything up to date, and includes new material on 17th- and 18th-century sites, traditional cultural properties, shipwrecks, Japanese internment camps, and military properties.
Donald L. Hardesty is a professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Nevada-Reno. Barbara J. Little is an archaeologist with the National Park Service in Washington, DC, and adjunct professor of anthropology at the University of Maryland, College Park.
Table of Contents
Preface Preface to the Second EditionPart One: Approaches to Assessing Significance Chapter 1. Introduction Chapter 2. Determining National Register Eligibility Chapter 3. Scientific and Scholarly SignificancePart Two: Case Studies Chapter 4. Linear Sites Chapter 5. Industrial Sites and Monuments Chapter 6. Domestic Sites and Farmsteads Chapter 7. Large-Scale SitesSummary Glossary