Heritage Management at Fort Hood, Texas

by Dingwall, Lucie; Gaffney, Vince

• ISBN13: 9781905739110
• ISBN10: 1905739117
• Edition: CD
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-06-30
• Publisher: Archaeopress

Summary

The landscape of Fort Hood, in central Texas, presents archaeologists and cultural resource managers with some of their most exacting but absorbing challenges. That much is clear from the activities of the many archaeologists and heritage managers who have sought to use the extensive cultural database and unique landscape of the base as a test bed for research and management methodologies. This volume presents a synthesis of recent Fort Hood studies and represents something unique in terms of published HLC programmes. The utility of the process is summed up in the successful ground-truthing of results produced by the research team. Consequently these results are a strong endorsement not just of the essential principles of historic landscape characterisation, but also that the process has a wider applicability to regions with radically different histories and areas where available supporting data is of variable quality. The importance of appropriate technical and resource management expertise within management terms are equally clear from this work.

Table of Contents

Illustrations
Foreword
Preface: New Ways in the New World
Introduction	p. 1
The Origins and Aims of the Fort Hood Historic Landscape Characterisation Project	p. 5
Previous archaeological work at Fort Hood	p. 6
Overview of the data	p. 12
Overview of management approaches	p. 12
Aims of the Fort Hood historic landscape characterisation project	p. 14
Approaches to historic landscape characterisation	p. 15
Principles of historic landscape characterisation	p. 15
Historic landscape characterisation methodologies	p. 17
Developing the Fort Hood methodology	p. 18
Fort Hood in Context	p. 23
The establishment of Fort Hood as a military installation	p. 23
Topography and geology	p. 23
Archaeological Review of Fort Hood	p. 23
The Fort Hood archaeological database	p. 51
Database structures and the Event-Monument-Archive model	p. 51
The new Fort Hood database structure	p. 53
Implementation of the Fort Hood database	p. 54
The historic landscape characterisation project	p. 69
Creation of the historic landscape polygons	p. 69
Definition of the historic landscape characterisation types	p. 85
Truthing of the historic landscape characterisation data	p. 88
Results and discussion	p. 98
Conclusions	p. 117
Bibliography	p. 119
The contents and use of the CD	p. 125
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