ANTH 9 Lecture Notes - Lecture 22: Antiquities Act, Gastrointestinal Tract, Soil Ph
7 Oct 2020
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Provided protection of historic and prehistoric ruins and monuments on federal land. Secretaries of the interior, agriculture, and war could excavations. President could declare areas of public land as national monuments. Supported by several federal agencies: cwa, fera, tva, wpa, and ccc. Work started in 1933 and continued to early 1942. Put people back to work: primary goal of work. But some projects were motivated by desire to salvage sites threatened with destruction: most importantly, projects undertaken in conjunction with the tva. Added much to knowledge about prehistory of certain parts of the country: especially the south. Showed that large crews could be put to work for long periods to excavate big sites. Experience gained on the new deal projects was invaluable in the initial postwar salvage work. Interagency archeological salvage program establish in 1946: us army corps of engineers. Excavators in the early 1960s faced the rapid destruction of the major mound center when.
