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Review: Archaeology in the Third world (2727 words) |
 | He admits that both the concepts of 'the archaeology of the past' and also research were imports from the colonial masters. |
| Emphasizing the common denominators of Third World Archaeology with the help of colonial background he tells us that the Third World Archaeology in the colonial context was a small government-run affair, which hardly played any role in its educational system or in nationalist movements. |
| He compares the Third World Archaeology to the First World Archaeology in the field of reconstruction of archaeological cultural history with emphasis on survey and excavation, oriented towards the establishment of stratigraphy, typology, distribution and dating. |
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Utah History Encyclopedia (3844 words) |
| In 1945 a department of archaeology was established at BYU. |
| The nature of archaeology in Utah and in the United States generally was drastically altered in the 1970s by the passage of federal legislation requiring that archaeological sites on public land be protected from destruction by development projects such as highways, reservoirs, and power line construction. |
| Archaeology's greatest challenge at the end of the twentieth century has not changed since the 1930s when an alarmed Elmer Smith drew attention to the incessant looting of archaeological sites around the state. |
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