Thomas F King
Biographic Data
| ID | 3616579 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Thomas F King |
| GIVEN NAMES | Thomas F |
| FAMILY NAME | King |
| SIGNATURE | KING T F |
| AFFILIATIONS | Heritage Preservation |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 56 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 47 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 56 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1966 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Ethics of Commercial Archaeology
Ethics of Commercial Archaeology
US Domestic Archaeological Heritage Law
Do People Have a Place in the Historic Environment? The Anderson Ferry and the National Mall
The significance of historic places often depends on their use by people. The Anderson Ferry, an historic river crossing in the Eastern United States, is an extreme example; arguably the on-going human use of the crossing is its only significant characteristic. The National Mall in Washington DC also exemplifies the importance of on-going human use. However, such places are often managed as though on-going human use were irrelevant and even damag…
Is Public Archaeology a menace
Why is the SCA? Perspectives from the Origin Years
Rio Tinto Talks the Talk
Why Cultural Heritage Matters: A Resource Guide for Integrating Cultural Heritage Management into Communities Work at Rio Tinto. By Elizabeth Bradshaw, Katie Bryant, and Tamar Cohen with the Rio Ti
Collaborative Conservation of Protected Areas
Indigenous Peoples and the Collaborative Stewardship of Nature: Knowledge Binds and Institutional Conflicts. By Anne Ross, Kathleen Pickering Sherman, Jeffrey G. Snodgrass, Henry D. Delcore, and Ri
Good and Bad
In his article, “The Value and Valuation of Maritime Cultural Heritage”, Stefan Claesson discusses methods by which the relative or absolute value of submerged cultural sites like shipwrecks might be established, to provide rational bases for decisions about their management. He emphasizes systems used in ecosystem valuation, notably an average individual's projected “willingness to pay” (WTP) to preserve something and “willingness to accept” (WT…
U.S. Government Burdens on the Exercise of Traditional Religions
Two court decisions highlight divergent opinions as to what constitutes a “substantial burden” on the practice of traditional indigenous religions in the United States. One decision, in the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, effectively defines the term in such a way as to discriminate against indigenous religious practices; the other, by a district court in the 10th Circuit based on other holdings by that circuit court, gives much more latitude for p…
My Historic Environment
(2010). My Historic Environment. The Historic Environment: Policy & Practice: Vol. 1, No. 1, pp. 103-104
Creatures and Culture
Dugong v. Rumsfeld, a case charging the United States Department of Defense with violation of Section 402 of the U.S. Christopher of the Pace University School of Law for involving me in Dugong and for many helpful comments on the analysis presented here. Mr. Christopher points out that there are many other aspects of law, both domestic and international, that could be explored through analysis of Dugong, as well as philosophical and policy quest…
What should be the “cultural resources” element of an EIA
How the archeologists stole culture
Ethics for the Living
If an Orange Falls in the Forest, is It Eligible? A Comment on Tainter and Lucas
Tainter and Lucas (1983) have given us a cogent and useful critique of the 'significance concept' that is a fundamental part of historic preservation and 'conservation archeology' as practiced in the United States. I have no real disagreement with their arguments or with their conclusions, although I am not sure they can be operationalized
Preservation and Rescue
Challenges and Controversies in the Protection of Archaeological Resources
The following article by Mark Raab discusses a basic problem in maintaining quality among programs of contract-based archeology (I regret that Raab feels impelled to call it “cultural resource management”, which, if it means anything at all, certainly does not mean contract-based archeology). Having devoted a substantial part of his professional life to developing and carrying out excellent research through contract programs, Raab is particularly…
Preservation and Rescue
Preservation and Rescue
The Department of the Interior has a major role in coordinating the national archeological programs of the United States. This function is generally vested in the National Park Service, which reports to the Assistant Secretary for Fish and Wildlife and Parks, who of course reports to the Secretary of the Interior. Mr. Ric Davidge, a native of Alaska and a leading authority on land management, was appointed early in the Reagan administration as sp…
Preservation and Rescue
Historical Preservation and Sociocultural Impacts
Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Thomas King; Historical Preservation and Sociocultural Impacts: A Developing Relationship. Practicing Anthropology 1 July 1981; 3 (4): 6–28. doi: https://doi.org/10.17730/praa.3.4.d4t622137t34h121 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Booke…
Preservation and Rescue
Preservation and Rescue
Preservation and Rescue
Preservation
Social, historic, ethnohistoric, and archaeological values increasingly are considered in federal decision making affecting land use and modification. In situ preservation of significant archaeological properties is now often attainable through sensitive project planning. When destruction is unavoidable, funds are more often available for sound programs of data recovery than was the case in the past. The laws and policies which govern historic pr…
Harvest selection and domestication in seed plants
In recent years research has been directed to looking for the origins of agriculture and to finding the causes of the transition from hunting and gathering to food production and the domestication of plants and animals. From these studies it has become apparent first, that the transition occurred several times and in several places in prehistory; secondly, that the mechanisms underlying the transition are quite complex; and thirdly that the trans…
A Conflict of Values in American Archaeology
As contract salvage programs have come to support more and more archaeological fieldwork and analysis, and as archaeologists have become increasingly concerned with the relevance of their sub-discipline to the larger explanatory goals of anthropology, a strategic conflict has arisen that threatens to severely limit the potential of American archaeology for long-range explanatory research. It is contended that this conflict has arisen because salv…
What should be the “cultural resources” element of an EIA
How the archeologists stole culture
Why is the SCA? Perspectives from the Origin Years
Ethics for the Living
If an Orange Falls in the Forest, is It Eligible? A Comment on Tainter and Lucas
Tainter and Lucas (1983) have given us a cogent and useful critique of the 'significance concept' that is a fundamental part of historic preservation and 'conservation archeology' as practiced in the United States. I have no real disagreement with their arguments or with their conclusions, although I am not sure they can be operationalized
Challenges and Controversies in the Protection of Archaeological Resources
I think the following paper by S. Alan Skinner is important in two ways. First, it shows how, in the United States, if an archeological contractor wishes to take issue with an agency's procurement policies, he or she can use standard federal government protestation procedures to do so. Most of us are unfamiliar with these procedures, and Skinner's paper provides a valuable primer for those who may have to use them in the future. Second, I. think …
News and Short Contributions
County Antiquities Legislation, New Hope for Archaeological Preservation
An ordinance to protect archaeological sites, adopted by Marin County, California, is described, and its potential significance on a broader level is discussed
A Cache of Stone Artifacts Having 'Musical' Properties from Marin County, California
Three artifacts found in a cache in Marin County, California, are suggested as having functioned in a 'musical' capacity. Information on the distribution of such artifacts is solicited
County Antiquities Legislation, New Hope for Archaeological Preservation
An ordinance to protect archaeological sites, adopted by Marin County, California, is described, and its potential significance on a broader level is discussed
A Conflict of Values in American Archaeology
As contract salvage programs have come to support more and more archaeological fieldwork and analysis, and as archaeologists have become increasingly concerned with the relevance of their sub-discipline to the larger explanatory goals of anthropology, a strategic conflict has arisen that threatens to severely limit the potential of American archaeology for long-range explanatory research. It is contended that this conflict has arisen because salv…
Harvest selection and domestication in seed plants
In recent years research has been directed to looking for the origins of agriculture and to finding the causes of the transition from hunting and gathering to food production and the domestication of plants and animals. From these studies it has become apparent first, that the transition occurred several times and in several places in prehistory; secondly, that the mechanisms underlying the transition are quite complex; and thirdly that the trans…
Reply to Kautz
Kautz has criticized the author's "oversimplified" use of ethnological models in the interpretation of data from a salvaged California cemetery. The author argues that this criticism reflects a misunderstanding of the uses to which archaeological data and models drawn from outside archaeology can appropriately be put
The Cahuilla Indians of the Colorado Desert
News and Short Contributions
Preservation and Rescue
News and Short Contributions
More on Cultural Resource Management
Preservation and Rescue
Challenges and Controversies in the Protection of Archaeological Resources
In JFA 4, Number 4, we published an article by Donald A. Graybill, describing archeological site destruction in a portion of the SW United States. The following article, by William Lovis, provides equally startling statistics documenting the loss of sites in a portion of the Great Lakes region. This article was first published in the Newsletter of the American Society for Conservation Archeology (ASCA), and is republished here with the permission…
Preservation and Rescue
I think the following paper by S. A lan Skinner is important in two ways. First, it shows how, in the United States, if an archeological contractor wishes to take issue with an agency's procurement policies, he or she can use standardfederal government protestation procedures to do so. Most of us are unfamiliar with these procedures, and Skinner's paper provides a valuable primer for those who may have to use them in the future. Second, I think S…
Preservation
Social, historic, ethnohistoric, and archaeological values increasingly are considered in federal decision making affecting land use and modification. In situ preservation of significant archaeological properties is now often attainable through sensitive project planning. When destruction is unavoidable, funds are more often available for sound programs of data recovery than was the case in the past. The laws and policies which govern historic pr…
Preservation and Rescue
Preservation and Rescue
Challenges and Controversies in the Protection of Archaeological Resources
I think the following paper by S. Alan Skinner is important in two ways. First, it shows how, in the United States, if an archeological contractor wishes to take issue with an agency's procurement policies, he or she can use standard federal government protestation procedures to do so. Most of us are unfamiliar with these procedures, and Skinner's paper provides a valuable primer for those who may have to use them in the future. Second, I. think …
Preservation and Rescue
Preservation and Rescue
Challenges and Controversies in the Protection of Archaeological Resources
I think the following paper by S. Alan Skinner is important in two ways. First, it shows how, in the United States, if an archeological contractor wishes to take issue with an agency's procurement policies, he or she can use standard federal government protestation procedures to do so. Most of us are unfamiliar with these procedures, and Skinner's paper provides a valuable primer for those who may have to use them in the future. Second, I. think …
Preservation and Rescue
Preservation and Rescue
California's Historic Preservation Executive OrderCalifornia Governor Edmund G. Brown, Jr. has issued Executive Order B–64–80, directing state agencies to identify and protect historic properties under their jurisdiction. The Executive Order is similar to Executive Order 11593, issued by President Nixon in 1971. Other states may find it useful as a model, so it is published in full below
Preservation and Rescue
Preservation and Rescue: Challenges and Controversies in the Protection of Archaeological Resources." Journal of Field Archaeology, 7(4), p. 466
Preservation and Rescue
Preservation and Rescue
History (47 works) · Archaeology (46 works) · Geography (37 works) · History (35 works) · Archaeological Research and Protection (21 works) · Political science (20 works) · Archaeology and Natural History (19 works) · Law (17 works) · Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies (17 works) · Vietnamese History and Culture Studies (16 works)