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Specialized types of consultation offered by ARI include investigation, damage assessment and expert witness services for damage to archaeological resources and other types of violations.
ARI also offers general consultation services in all areas related to archaeological resource protection. Examples of these types of services are the development of:
- Archaeological resource protection plans and procedural guides
- Human remains protocols
- Archaeological resource protection standards
- Archaeological resource vulnerability assessments
ARI developed an archaeological resource protection plan
for Argonne National Laboratory and the United States Department
of Energy, Office of Environmental Policy and Assistance (Guidelines
for Investigation and Prosecution of Archeological Violations).
The purpose of this plan is to provide guidance concerning the protection of archaeological resources using the Archaeological Resources Protection Act (ARPA) and other applicable statutes. Specific procedural areas of the plan include:
- Detection of archaeological violations
- Investigation of archaeological crime scenes
- Assessment of damages to resources and sites in archaeological violation cases
- Prosecution of archaeological violation cases
- Post-prosecution responsibilities resulting from archeological violation cases
- Prevention of archaeological violations
ARI developed an archaeological resource protection plan
for Grand Canyon National Park (Grand Canyon National
Park Archaeological Resource Protection Protocol).
The purpose of this plan is to establish step-by-step procedures
to be followed to protect the Grand Canyon National Park’s
archaeological resources from violations of federal law. Specific
procedural areas of the plan include:
- Detection of violations
- Responses to violations
- Crime scene investigation
- Damage assessment
- Additional investigative actions
- Case preparation
- Criminal and civil prosecution
- Forfeiture
- Post-prosecution actions
- Training
- Prevention of violations
ARI also developed the initial draft of the Bureau of Indian
Affairs Pocket Field Guide: Field Procedures for Violations
of the Archaeological Resources Protection Act (ARPA).
This guide covers the first four topics of the Grand Canyon
National Park plan.
ARI developed the Grand Canyon National Park Non-Recent
Human Remains Protocol. The purpose of this protocol
is to establish procedures to be followed when non-recent
human remains are found at Grand Canyon National Park. The
protocol includes procedures for the following types of discoveries
of human remains:
- Anticipated discoveries of human remains by a qualified professional archaeologist in a known archaeological context
- Unanticipated discoveries of human remains by a qualified professional archaeologist in an Archaeological context exposed by natural erosion
- Unanticipated discoveries of human remains in an archaeological context
- Unanticipated discoveries of human remains in a modern context
- Unanticipated discoveries of human remains in a combined archaeological and modern context
- Unanticipated discoveries of human remains in a questionable context
ARI organized and presented a national conference on archaeological resource protection standards for college and university outdoor recreation programs under a contract with the College of Santa Fe in 1993. Funding the conference satisfied the ARPA civil penalty assessment against the College of Santa Fe for its involvement in ARPA violations by a student and staff member during a college sponsored field trip in Utah. The standards developed at the conference were made available to colleges and universities throughout the United States.
ARI was involved in the development of a pilot archaeological
resource vulnerability assessment system for Kisatchie National
Forest in Louisiana. This system allows a numeric vulnerability
rating (high vulnerability versus low vulnerability) to be
assigned to an archaeological resource site based on both
physical characteristics of the site, such as accessibility,
visibility and condition, and other associated protection
considerations, such as public knowledge of the site and previous
violations at the site.
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