A cultural resource management program for the Upper Santa Clara River Valley, Los Angeles and Ventura Counties, California
Year: 1979
Type: dissertation
Abstract: The present influx of people and urbanization into the \nUpper Santa Clara River Valley has led to a rapid, \nunnatural increase in the degree of impact to the various \ncultural resources present within the Upper Santa Clara \nRiver Valley. This increase in the degree of impact is \nresulting in the unmitigated loss of scientific information \nand cultural heritage that these cultural resources represent, \na loss that can be avoided via adequate cultural \nresource management planning. The program presented in \nthis thesis will outline how the cultural resource potential \nof the Upper Santa Clara River Valley can be realized through a comparison of the known cultural resources with \nthe existing archaeological, historical, and ethnographical \ndata, supplemented by a predictive field sampling program \nwhich would identify those variables, or corrbination of \nvariables, either natural or cultural, which would be \nassociated with the occurrences and interpretation of cultural \nresources. The cultural resource potential would \nserve as the basis for developing planning decisions regarding \nthe management and allocation of the potential use of \nthe cultural resource in terms of protection, preservation, \nenhancement or consumptive utilization. The Cultural \nResource Management Program is the vehicle by which the \npotential of all the cultural resources, either known or \nunknown, within the Upper Santa Clara River Valley, will be \nrealized and adequately addressed in the planning process, \ninsuring against the wanton destruction of our heritage.
Author: McIntyre, Michael James
Language: English
Subfield: Archeology
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W7036981087