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The Dolores Archaeological Program: In Memoriam

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

David A. Breternitz
David A. Breternitz*
Affiliation:
Mesa Verde Regional Research Center, P.O. Box 592, Dove Creek, CO 81324
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Abstract

The Dolores Archaeological Project (DAP) encompassed a contract period from June 1978 through December 1985. Although investigations both preceded and postdated the contract period, the accomplishments, failures, positive and negative aspects of DAP, and certain comparisons with another major cultural-resource-mitigation project offer historical, methodological, and academic lessons that are instructive, particularly for future, long-term, federally (or nonfederally) financed cultural-resource-mitigation endeavors.

Resumen

Resumen

El Programa Arqueológico "Dolores" (DAP) comprendió un período de contrato de junio de 1978 a diciembre de 1985. Aunque las investigaciones precedieron y siguieron al período del contrato, las conclusiones, fracasos, aspectos positivos y negativos del programa y ciertas comparaciones con otro importante proyecto relacionado con la mitigación de recursos culturales ofrecen lecciones históricas, metodológicas y académicas que son instructivas, particularmente para futuros esfuerzos vinculados con la mitigación de recursos culturales, financiados o no federalmente y realizados a largo plazo.

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Reports
Information
American Antiquity , Volume 58 , Issue 1 , January 1993 , pp. 118 - 125
Copyright
Copyright © Society for American Archaeology 1993

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