Cultural resource management, a View from Port Arthur Historic Site

The following is a rewritten version of a paper that was presented at the Second Annual Conference of the Australian Society for Historical Archaeology, held in Sydney in October 1982. In this paper Brian Egloff, of the Tasmanian National Parks and Wildlife Service, examines the subject of cultural resource management, in the light of his experiences as manager of the Port Arthur Conservation Project. He demonstrates that cultural resource management involves collaboration between a number of disciplines, of which archaeology is only one. Participants in conservation projects like that at Port Arthur need special skills and experience that differ from those of their academic colleagues. They also need to work within a management framework that will vary from project to project and should indeed be specially designed to suit each individual case.

以下是1982年10月于悉尼举办的澳大利亚历史考古学会第二届年会所宣读论文的改写版本。本文作者为塔斯马尼亚国家公园与野生动物服务处的布莱恩·埃格洛夫（Brian Egloff），他以亚瑟港保护项目负责人的履职经历为切入点，探讨了文化资源管理（cultural resource management）这一主题。他指出，文化资源管理涉及多学科协作，而考古学（archaeology）仅为其中之一。参与亚瑟港这类保护项目的从业者，需具备与学术同行截然不同的专业技能与实践经验。同时，他们还需在适配不同项目的管理框架内开展工作，此类框架理应针对具体项目量身定制。