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The Dynamics of Significance: An Example from Central Texas

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Mark J. Lynott
Mark J. Lynott*
Affiliation:
Midwest Archaeological Center, National Park Service, Lincoln, NE 68508
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Abstract

The process of evaluating archaeological significance is dynamic and constantly changing. Factors affecting the significance evaluation process are considered, and an example of how the evaluation of significance at a central Texas rockshelter has changed over the last thirty years is offered.

Type
Cultural Resource Management
Information
American Antiquity , Volume 45 , Issue 1 , January 1980 , pp. 117 - 120
Copyright
Copyright © Society for American Archaeology 1980

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