Posts Tagged ‘preservation’

The Trouble with Monuments

That’s the title of this counterintuitive post from Jonathan Thompson, the editor-in-chief of an environmental magazine. He riffs off a brewing controversy over spectacular places in the Southwest that might soon be nominated as National Monuments. Except it’s not some off-the-cuff riff. Thompson writes a poignant meditation on the complicated feelings he has about a…Continue Reading…

Rescuing Archaeologists

How’s this for a bewitching paradox: the global economic meltdown is good for archaeology, bad for archaeologists. Huh? Consider this truism, as stated in a recent article in Antiquity, a UK journal: The principal threat to the archaeological resource is and has been land use change through development, primarily for housing and infrastructure. So it…Continue Reading…