State of Knowledge and Current Debates
Applied archaeological practice, as a means of investigating and protecting archaeological sites, landscapes, and material, is a young profession that emerged across the world during the twentieth century. As a practice that has become increasingly linked to land-use change and development expenditure, it has been impacted upon by all of the crises that the global economy has gone through in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
The Great Depression of the 1930s led to the first examples of archaeological practice being affected by an economic crisis. In the United States, the recovery plans of President Roosevelt’s New Deal involved federal investment in capital projects. This included the Tennessee Valley Authority’s dam-building program where extensive archaeological excavations were funded ahead of dam construction and subsequent reservoir flooding (Jameson 2004).
Subsequently, since the early 1970s, there have been four international...
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