CH12 The Future of the Past

The two main agencies of archaeological destruction are construction and

• natural disaster

• rising sea levels

• archaeological excavation

• nationalism

• intensification of agriculture

The vast majority of archaeological sites that are found during survey in advance of construction in the United States

• do not meet the criteria to be considered significant and are recorded and destroyed

• are major archaeological sites that require full excavation

• are automatically destroyed and not recorded

• cause construction plans to be abandoned

• none of the choices

England’s first inspector of Ancient Monuments, who was selected in 1882, was

• Sir Mortimer Wheeler

• Augustus Lane Fox Pitt-Rivers

• Graham Hancock

• Ignatius Donnelly

• Kathleen Kenyon

The American Antiquities Act of 1906 was entirely focused on the preservation and conservation of sites located on

• private land

• Native American reservations

• federal land

• public, federal or private land that was being developed

• the act applied to all land in the USA

The practice of CRM is often known as

• environmental archaeology

• geoarchaeology

• applied archaeology

• colonial archaeology

• pseudoarchaeology

The official list of significant historic and cultural sites, structures and areas in the US is called the

• World Heritage List

• Protected Monuments Schedule

• Historic Places Trust

• National Register of Historic Places

• The Federal Compliance Site List

The 1954 Hague Convention is meant to protect sites of historic significance during

• natural disasters

• peacetime

• major political transitions

• major festivals and holidays

• times of war

An emerging solution to the problems associated with the publication of archaeological research is

• imposing large fines on archaeologists who do not publish

• not allowing academics to excavate anymore

• online publication

• not allowing private firms to excavate anymore

• accept that most archaeological information will not be published

The international body behind the World Heritage List and the principal international convention against the illicit trafficking of antiquities is

• ICOMOS

• ICROM

• UNESCO

• CRM

• GIS

Most archaeological survey and data recovery related to CRM work in the US is done by

• private archaeology firms

• archaeologists who are federal employees

• undergraduate students

• university professors

• members of the public with no archaeology training