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If an Orange Falls in the Forest, is It Eligible? A Comment on Tainter and Lucas

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Thomas F. King
Thomas F. King*
Affiliation:
Advisory Council on Historic Preservation, 1100 Pennsylvania Ave., NW, #809, Washington, DC 20004
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Abstract

Tainter and Lucas (1983) have given us a cogent and useful critique of the “significance concept” that is a fundamental part of historic preservation and “conservation archeology” as practiced in the United States. I have no real disagreement with their arguments or with their conclusions, although I am not sure they can be operationalized.

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American Antiquity , Volume 50 , Issue 1 , January 1985 , pp. 170 - 172
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Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1985

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Corps of Engineers, U. S. Army 1984 33 CFR Part 325. Processing of Department of the Army Permits: Procedures for the Protection of Historic Properties. Proposed rule, 49 FR 19036-39.Google Scholar
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