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Administration of Contract Emergency Archaeological Programs*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Jesse D. Jennings
Jesse D. Jennings*
Affiliation:
University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah
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Abstract

Contract emergency research is seen as sharing essentially the same limitations as other emergency work. These are: the pressure of time; an arbitrary restriction of geographic area of study; the obligation to sample adequately the full range of cultures represented; and the possible problem of dealing with a large volume of data. The contract also carries with it a stipulated deadline for the completion of an acceptable report. All of these limitations are seen as advantageous.

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Research Article
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American Antiquity , Volume 28 , Issue 3 , January 1963, pp. 282 - 285
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Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1963

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Footnotes

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After this paper was written I received and read the excellent symposium in Archaeology, Vol. 14, No. 4, called SOS, and the paper, A Guide for Salvage Archaeology by Fred Wendorf (Museum of New Mexico Press, 1962). Many of the ideas in these publications are parallel to some that I express independently in this paper. I wish here merely to acknowledge my awareness of the similarity of our conclusions and express my appreciation of the publications mentioned.

This paper was given at a symposium entitled “Administrative Problems in Emergency Archaeology” at the 27th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Tucson, Arizona, May 3–5, 1962.