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Lay people’s evaluation of historic sites
Landscape and Urban Planning, 2002Abstract In The Netherlands, assessing the value of historic buildings and determining municipal preservation policy is done by experts in historical architecture. Protests from residents against this policy are becoming more frequent, however and insight into their criteria for evaluating historicity is required so that their values may be taken ...
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On the Meaning of Historic Sites Archaeology*
American Antiquity, 1965AbstractA definition of historic sites archaeology as it applies in the New World is offered, and a five-fold classification of historic sites is proposed (protohistoric, contact, postcontact, frontier, and nonaboriginal). The usefulness of the concept of historic sites archaeology is discussed.
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Understanding historical thinking at historic sites.
Journal of Educational Psychology, 2012This article describes the interpretive processes historians engage in when “reading” historic buildings and examines what qualifies as historical thinking about historic buildings and sites. To gather evidence of what historical thinking looks like as it pertains to buildings, 5 practicing historians were recorded as they toured the Old North Church ...
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The Public Historian, 2018
Cultural heritage sites that bring forward the African American narrative have served a crucial role in redefining our collective history and, ultimately, reconstructing a national identity that reflects the country’s true diversity. Preservation professionals and grassroots leaders harness the power of place and the influence of historical figures to ...
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Cultural heritage sites that bring forward the African American narrative have served a crucial role in redefining our collective history and, ultimately, reconstructing a national identity that reflects the country’s true diversity. Preservation professionals and grassroots leaders harness the power of place and the influence of historical figures to ...
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Historic Site Archaeology at Jamestown
American Antiquity, 1957Jamestown, site of the first permanent English settlement in the New World, furnishes an interesting example of the use of archaeological techniques to put factual meat on abstract or theoretical bones. For over half a century, off and on, a succession of historians, architects, engineers, and archaeologists have sought physical evidence in the earth ...
John L. Cotter, Edward B. Jelks
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Historical and historic sites Archaeology as anthropology: Basic definitions and relationships
Historical Archaeology, 1970Normally a discipline either inherits its title from its subject matter, witness for ex ample Egyptology, Classical Archaeology, or more vaguely Prehistoric Archaeology, or it inherits it from its basic approach to its subject matter. In the latter category would fall such neologisms as "new archaeology'' and "processual archaeology". Since there is no
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