Collision or Collaboration Archaeology Encounters Economic Developme

Archaeology has an often contentious relationship with the consequences of economic development. Tourism, urban development and natural resource exploitation have generated adverse impact on the archaeological record, indigenous cultures and local communi

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Peter G. Gould K. Anne Pyburn Editors

Collision or Collaboration Archaeology Encounters Economic Development

One World Archaeology Series Editors: K. Anne Pyburn Indiana University Department of Anthropology Bloomington, IN, USA Arwa Badran The Hashemite University Zarqa, Jordan

More information about this series at http://www.springer.com/series/8606

Peter G. Gould • K. Anne Pyburn Editors

Collision or Collaboration Archaeology Encounters Economic Development

Editors Peter G. Gould University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology Philadelphia, PA, USA

K. Anne Pyburn Department of Anthropology Indiana University Bloomington, IN, USA

One World Archaeology ISBN 978-3-319-44514-4 ISBN 978-3-319-44515-1 DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-44515-1

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Preface

This volume had its genesis in the Seventh World Archaeological Congress (WAC), which was held in January 2013 at the Dead Sea, Jordan. The subject matter of this book was a major thread of this WAC meeting, which was among the very first international conferences to tackle the issues arising from archaeology’s engagement with the forces of economic development. Across seven sessions of the Congress, more than 50 papers were presented that touched on the challenges and opportunities that arise through the interaction of archaeological and cultural heritage management practice with tourism, infrastructure and natural resource projects, economic development projects in cities and smaller communities, and similar activities around the globe. From those papers, the editors have selected the geographically and philosophically diverse array of pa