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Let's discover how scientists are working to
Let's discover how scientists are working to
better understand past peoples in the Great Basin!
better understand past peoples in the Great Basin!
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The development of this Green Box was funded through the Lincoln County Archaeological Initiative (LCAI) managed by the Bureau of Land Management.
Archaeology Law and Ethics
Archaeology Law and Ethics
Each section of the lesson will include a section for Archaeological Ethics as well as some class discussion questions.
· Archaeological sites contain important and irreplaceable information about the past. Unfortunately, climatic changes, development, vandalism, and looting destroy sites at an alarming rate. Site protection is not only the responsibility of law enforcement officials or archaeologists. The past belongs to everyone, and it is everyone’s responsibility to help protect and preserve it.
· · Laws in the United States on federal and state lands protect archaeological sites. People who violate these laws can be prosecuted. While laws pertaining to private lands distinguish between surface collecting (picking up objects laying on top of the ground) and any ground-disturbing activities, like digging for artifacts, both are illegal on state and federal lands. Removing artifacts from state and federal lands is illegal.
· Archaeology Law & Ethics (saa.org)
· To Collect or Not to Collect · National Parks Conservation Association (npca.org)
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