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Stewarding America’s Antiquities at Mesa Verde

Stewarding America’s Antiquities at Mesa Verde. Stewarding America’s Antiquities at Mesa Verde. Problem: impacts to historical/cultural resources; depreciative behavior Management Strategies: limit use; reducing the impact of use; hardening the resource

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Stewarding America’s Antiquities at Mesa Verde

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  1. Stewarding America’s Antiquities at Mesa Verde

  2. Stewarding America’s Antiquities at Mesa Verde • Problem: impacts to historical/cultural resources; depreciative behavior • Management Strategies: limit use; reducing the impact of use; hardening the resource • Management Practices: rules and regulations; facility development/site design/maintenance; law enforcement; rationing/allocation; zoning; information/ education

  3. Stewarding America’s Antiquities at Mesa Verde • Mesa Verde National Park • Ancestral Puebloan people • 550 to 1300 A.D. • “Green table” • 1906 (Teddy Roosevelt) • Richard Wetherill and Charlie Mason • First U.S. cultural park • Over 4,000 archeological sites (600 cliff dwellings) • Over 600,000 visitor per year

  4. Stewarding America’s Antiquities at Mesa Verde • Visitors may not enter cliff dwellings without the presence of a uniformed ranger • Most of the park’s cultural resources are closed to the public • Ticketed tours for Cliff Palace and Balcony House during peak season • Heavy emphasis on interpretation • Freeman Tilden: “through knowledge, understanding; through understanding, appreciation; through appreciation, protection.”

  5. Mesa Verde National Park

  6. Stewarding America’s Antiquities at Mesa Verde • Virtual tour of Mesa Verde National Park (3:49) • Preservation of Archeological Sites

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