Finding Solutions for Protecting and Sharing Archaeological Heritage Resources

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiii

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2. The History of Perception and Protection of Cultural Heritage in China

   • Jian Li, Hui Fang, Anne P. Underhill

   Pages 1-16

3. Strategies of Cultural Heritage Management in Hokkaido, Northern Japan from the Perspective of Public Archaeology

   • Chiharu Abe

   Pages 17-31

4. The Ruinscape: UNESCO, the State, and the Construction of Identity and Heritage in Phimai, Thailand

   • Helaine Silverman

   Pages 33-53

5. A Success Too Sweet: Who Sheds Tears when Looting Ends?

   • Roderick J. McIntosh

   Pages 55-64

6. Seeking Solutions: An Archaeological Approach to Conservation of a Threatened Heritage on Rapa Nui (Easter Island)

   • Jo Anne Van Tilburg, Christian Fischer, Mónica Bahamondez Prieto, Cristián Arévalo Pakarati

   Pages 65-77

7. Analyzing “Markets” for Sustainable Preservation: A Jordanian Case Study

   • Lawrence S. Coben

   Pages 79-86

8. The Machu Picchu Solution: A New Approach to Cultural Patrimony Disputes

   • Lucy C. Salazar, Richard L. Burger

   Pages 87-102

9. Participation of the Local Community in Archaeological Heritage Management in the North Highlands of Peru

   • Yuji Seki

   Pages 103-119

10. Huacas del Sol y de la Luna Project: Inclusion with Local and Regional Social Development

    • Santiago Uceda

    Pages 121-133

11. New Approaches to Community Stewardship, Education, and Sustainable Conservation of Cultural Heritage at Rastrojón, Copán, Honduras

    • William L. Fash, Barbara W. Fash, Jorge Ramos

    Pages 135-152

12. Back Matter

    Pages 153-154

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This volume provides case studies about successful strategies employed in diverse world areas for the protection of archaeological heritage resources. Some chapters focus on a search for solutions arrived at by diverse groups of people working in specific areas rather than simply describing loss of cultural heritage. Other chapters provide a long-term view of intensified efforts at protection of archaeological resources. The authors describe challenges and solutions derived by concerned people in eastern Asia (China, Japan, Thailand), West Africa, Easter Island, Jordan, Honduras and more than one area of Peru. All of the authors draw upon deep, personal involvement with the protection of cultural heritage in each area. This volume is a timely addition to a growing number of conferences and publications about the management of cultural heritage—both archaeological and historical. 

• Conservation of a Threatened Heritage on Eastern Island
• Contemporary heritage conflicts with local values in Thailand
• Cultural Heritage Preservation in China during different eras
• Looting at archaeological sites
• Strategies of Cultural Heritage Management in Northern Japan
• UNESCO's World Heritage

• Department of Anthropology, Yale University, New Haven, USA

  Anne P. Underhill, Lucy C. Salazar

Anne P. Underhill is Professor of Anthropology at Yale University and Curator at the Yale Peabody Museum. Her interests include the development of complex societies in East Asia, the archaeology of East Asia, craft specialization, ceramic ethnoarchaeology, settlement organization, analysis of mortuary ritual and museums. Underhill’s field research has focused on settlement survey and excavations at Longshan sites in the Rizhao area of Shandong, China. In 2008 she was honored for her contributions by Premier Wen Jiabao with a National Friendship Award of the People’s Republic of China.

Lucy C. Salazar is a Research Associate in the Department of Anthropology at Yale University and a Curatorial Affiliate at the Yale Peabody Museum. She is an authority on Inca archaeology and the early prehistory of Peru. She has over three decades of experience in archeological fieldwork and museum research, and has co-directed numerous excavations in Peru. Salazar has written extensively on daily life at Machu Picchu, has several chapters in books and has received grant support for her work on the Incas from the NEH, NSF and the Josef Albers Fund. She coauthored the book Machu Picchu: Unveiling the Mystery of the Incas (2004). She has served at the Board of the Center for the Study of Machu Picchu and the Inca Culture at the National University, San Antonio de Abad, Cuzco (2012). She is involved in the study, research and conservation of the Bingham Collections and has installed the very successful traveling exhibit Machu Picchu: Unveiling the Mystery of the Incas.

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