Site surveys and significance assessment in Australian archaeology

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Site surveys and significance assessment in Australian archaeology

Date

1984

Publisher

Canberra : Dept. of Prehistory, Research School of Pacific Studies, Australian National University

Abstract

In all areas of heritage management, the assessment of significance is held to be the central, most important and most immediate task (e.g. Australia ICOMOS 1981; Bickford 1981; Lewis 1983; S. Sullivan 1983; Walker 1983).