ANTH 9 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Oldowan, Bipedalism, Lower Paleolithic
16 Jul 2020
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Post wwii explosion in industry (economic boom after war), increase in population (baby boom), significant impacts on environment. Era of increased conservation concern over pesticides, nuclear power, air pollution. Conservation ethic natural resources are limited, finite and owned by the public. Protection of natural resources epa, green peace clean water act, clean air act, etc. legislation. Growth in industry threatened many arch. sites. Cultural resources began to be treated like natural resources (building of dams) limited quantity, easily destroyed and owned by all americans. National historic preservation act (nhpa) of 1966: all fed agencies need to consider impact on cultural resources whenever a project is conducted, issue a permit, or have work conducted on fed lands projects. Consider impact requires: assessment, testing and mitigation. Places the fed gov"t in role of protecting from developmental. Actual investigation requires large amounts of labor. **beyond capacity of academic world** birth of. Na fight for rights considered second class citizens (voting, religion, housing)
