The CRM Professional Development Workshop, When Cultural Resources Aren't Archaeological Sites: Being Fair to the Rest of Culture, led by Dr. Tom King and co-sponsored by CAS and the Department of Anthropology, was a success! Among the 30+ attendees were representatives of State of Texas agencies, private companies, and a variety of universities. Thank you to everyone who participated!

Photographs from the event are presented in the gallery below. And if you missed this workshop, a brief description is provided below.

When "Cultural Resources" Aren't Archaeological Sites:
Being Fair to the Rest of Culture

Professional Development Workshop
Novemeber 13th 9 am - 4 pm
Texas Rivers Center, San Marcos

Sponsored by
Center for Archaeological Studies
and
Department of Anthropology
Texas State University-San Marcos

This full-day workshop focuses on cultural resources other than archaeological sites for which people working in Cultural Resource Management (CRM) are responsible. Archaeological resources are only one of many types of cultural resources. Historic buildings, cultural landscapes, spiritual places, religious practices, and traditional ways of life are often the kinds of resources that "we the people" tend to hold dearest.

The workshop lays out the cultural resource landscape; provides an overview of the relevant Federal cultural resource laws, executive orders, and regulations; and delves into pragmatic considerations of theory and practice. We will try to bridge the contrasting and all-to-often conflicting roles played by "resource protectors" and "resource threateners" to illustrate the promises, responsibilities, and the challenges.

Workshop leader Thomas F. King is the author of numerous books and articles on CRM and has worked on many sides of the historic preservation community as an academic archaeologist, a government official, a private consultant, and a trainer.