A Critical Appraisal of “Significance” in Contract Archaeology

1 October 1977

journal article
Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in American Antiquity

Vol. 42 (4) , 629-634
https://doi.org/10.2307/278939

Abstract

Four current approaches to assessing archaeological significance in contract archaeology are reviewed. It is argued that three of these approaches are inadequate bases for assessing significance. Explicit, problem-oriented research designs seem to provide the most promising approach to the problem of archaeological significance.

Keywords

CONTRACT ARCHAEOLOGY
APPRAISAL
PROMISING
ORIENTED
EXPLICIT
INADEQUATE
ARGUED
ARCHAEOLOGY FOUR

This publication has 2 references indexed in Scilit:

The Impact Statement Boondoggle
Science, 1976
Contract Archeology: Salvage or Science?
Anthropology News, 1975