Is archaeological valuation an accounting matter?
- 1 March 1999
- journal article
- other
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP)
- Vol. 73 (279) , 143-148
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s0003598x00087937
Abstract
How can a value be put on the past? This article promotes discussion of how archaeologists and museum curators are being forced into providing valuations for their ‘resource’ and collections, and conforming to accounting practices.Keywords
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