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Introduction: Archaeological Value in a World Context, by Clay Mathers, Timothy Darvill, and Barbara Little Part I. Archaeology and 2. Sorted for Ease and Whiz: Approaching Value and Importance in Archaeological Resource Management, by Timothy Darvill 3. Good Citizens and Sound Economics: The Trajectory of Archaeology in Britain from Heritage to Resource, by John Carman 4. Shaping and Suppressing the Archaeological Record: Significance in American Cultural Resource Management, by Joseph A. Tainter and Bonnie Bagley Part II. Archaeology in Context 5. Archaeological Significance and the Governance of Identity in Cultural Management, by Laurajane Smith 6. Rigidity and a Changing Order... Disorder, Degeneracy and Daemonic Repetition: Fluidity of Cultural Values and Cultural Management, by W. E. Boyd, M. M. Cotter, J. Gardiner, and G. Taylor 7. The U.S. National Register of Historic Places and the Shaping of Archaeological Significance, by Barbara J. Little 8. Reassessing Archaeological Significance: of Value and Archaeology of Renown in Brazil, by Pedro Paulo A. Funari 9. Plastic Value: Archaeological Significance in South Africa, by Gavin Whitelaw Part III. Judging Value and Importance 10. Drawing Distinctions: Toward a Scalar Model of Value and Significance, by Clay Mathers, John Schelberg, and Ronald Kneebone 11. Significance in American Cultural Resource Management: Lost in the Past, by Jeffrey H. Altschul 12. Archaeological Deposits and Value, by Jane Grenville and Ian Ritchie 13. Archaeological and Indigenous Significance: A View from Australia, by Ian Lilley and Michael Williams 14. Sacredness, Sensitivity, and Significance: The Controversy over Native American Sacred Sites, by Sherene Baugher 15. Traditional Cultural Properties and the National Preservation Program in the United States, by Nina Swidler and Michael Yeatts Part IV. Managing Valued Places 16. Handling the Unknown: The Expanding Role of Predictive Modeling in Archaeological Management in the Netherlands, by Jos Deeben and Bert Groenewoudt 17. Assessing the Cultural Significance of World Sites: A Case Study from Avebury, Wiltshire, England, by Melanie C. Pomeroy 18. Beyond Designation: The Role of Value in Sustaining Cultural Resources, by Kate Clark
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