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Author / Creator:	Egloff, Brian, author.
Imprint:	Oxford : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd, [2019] ©2019
Description:	1 online resource (viii, 329 pages) : color illustrations
Language:	English
Series:	Access archaeology Access archaeology.
Subject:	Historic sites -- Conservation and restoration. Cultural property. Heritage tourism. Cultural property. Heritage tourism. Historic sites -- Conservation and restoration.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13514619

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ISBN:	9781789691061 1789691060
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-313). Online resource; title from PDF title page (Archaeopress Web site, viewed on August 20, 2019). Print version record.
Summary:	Archaeological heritage conservation is all too often highly conflicted and fraught with pitfalls in part due to a poor understanding of the historical and current underpinnings that guide best practice. When heritage places are managed with international principles in mind the sites stand out as evidencing superior outcomes. The International Scientific Committee on Archaeological Heritage Management expresses concern in the Salalah Guidelines of 2017 with the persistent problems facing archaeological sites that are open to the public. National heritage icons face overwhelming pressure to provide the mainstay of local, national and international tourism economies while in some instances being situated in locations destined for major development or military conflict. Leaders in the field of archaeological heritage conservation, particularly with respect to World Heritage listed properties, assert that economic interests often are at the forefront of management decision making while heritage values are given lesser, if any, consideration. Continuing and future zones of discomfort such as the impact of war, theft of national cultural property, over-development, unconstrained excavation, extreme nationalism, uncontrolled visitation and professionalisation need to be addressed if future generations are to be afforded the same heritage values as are available today.
Other form:	Print version: Egloff, Brian. Archaeological heritage conservation and management. Oxford : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd, [2019] Print version: Egloff, Brian. Archaeological heritage conservation and management. Oxford : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd, [2019] 1789691060 9781789691061

Table of Contents:

1. Introduction; 2. Archaeology, significance and heritage; 3. Internationalism; 4. Challenges; 5. Sustainability; 6. Economics; 7. Governance and risks; 8. International reflections; References; Appendix 1 International and national instruments; Appendix 2 Salalah Guidelines for the Management of Public Archaeological Sites.