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ARI offers damage assessment services for actual or suspect damage to archaeological resources. These services include all aspects of the Archaeological Resources Protection Act (ARPA) archaeological damage assessment process:
- Field damage assessment
- Development of archaeological value, commercial value and cost of restoration and repair determinations under ARPA and for other incidents that may involve these determinations
- Damage assessment report preparation
- Expert witness testimony
ARI also reviews and provides expert analysis of archaeological damage assessment reports prepared by other archaeologists.
ARI archaeologist owner Martin McAllister has extensive expertise in archaeological damage assessment and is recognized at the leading national authority in this area. Mr. McAllister has been involved in the following professional activities related to archaeological damage assessment:
- Provided archaeological damage assessment assistance to
USDA Forest Service law enforcement personnel in the investigation
of over 100 archaeological violations cases while serving
as the Forest Archaeologist for the Tonto National Forest
in Arizona from 1974 through 1985.
- Has been consulted informally on archaeological damage
assessment in over 200 archaeological violation cases since
1985.
- Began providing contract archaeological damage assessment
services through ARI in 1986.
- Prepared the “Damage Assessment” chapter of
the regional Cultural Resources Handbook under
a contract from the USDA Forest Service Southwestern Region
in 1987.
- Carried out the archaeological damage assessment for the
Exxon Valdez Oil Spill under a contract from the Alaska
Regional Office of the National Park Service that resulted
in a $36,600,000.00 “archaeological value” and
“cost of restoration and repair” determination
for the resulting damage to archaeological sites in the
Prince William Sound area of Alaska.
- Prepared the commercial value determination for projectile
points and other stone artifacts in the archaeological damage
assessment for the U.S. versus Young archaeological violation
case under a contract from the Idaho State Office of the
Bureau of Land Management in 1998 through 1999.
- Developed the ARI’s five-day “Archaeological Damage
Assessment” class, the only class in existence that
trains professional archaeologists in all aspects of the
preparation of archaeological damage assessment reports
for Archaeological Resources Protection Act cases, including
the determination of archaeological value and cost of restoration
and repair, and have instructed in all offerings of the
class since 2000 (18 class offerings with 269 participants
to date).
- Was retained as an expert on archaeological damage assessment
by Southern California Edison in a major civil lawsuit against
this company by the State of California in 2000.
- Petitioned the Society for American Archaeology to create
the society’s “Professional Standards for the
Determination of Archaeological Value” that were adopted
in 2003 for use by professional archaeologists in Archaeological
Resources Protection Act cases and organized and co-chaired
the society conference that developed these standards (with
Assistant United States
Attorney Wayne Dance).
- Is the author of the article entitled The Society
for American Archaeology Professional Standards for the
Determination of Archaeological Value: Solving the Archaeological
Value Determination Problem published in 2006
in the volume entitled Presenting Archaeology in Court.
- Is the author of the Archaeological Resources, Legal Basis and Methods Damage Assessment
Technical brief to be published by the National Park Service
in 2007. (National Park Service Technical Brief 20).
- Is currently involved as an expert on archaeological damage
assessment in two major civil litigation cases.
McAllister also provided damage assessment expertise to the Bureau of Land Management in the Eye of the Needle geological vandalism case in Montana in 1997.
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