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Archaeological Resource Investigations

# ARCHAEOLOGICAL DAMAGE ASSESSEMENT CLASS

**[Class Announcement]{.underline}:**

Archaeological Resource Investigations (ARI) has scheduled an offering
of the firm's five-day advanced Archaeological Damage Assessment Class
in Dolores, Colorado, Monday, April 7 through Friday, April 11, 2008. 
The National Park Service (NPS) at Mesa Verde National Park will be the
sponsor for this class. Information on the class location, lodging and
logistics is provided as part of this announcement (see below). The
class description and schedule also are provided as part of this
announcement (see below).  The class is open to all government, tribal
and contract archaeologists. The maximum number of participants allowed
in the class is 17 so interested archaeologists should register as soon
as possible. **The registration deadline for the class is close of
business on Friday, March 14, 2008.** 

**[Class Registration]{.underline}:**

**There is [not]{.underline} a class registration form.** There are two
steps in the class registration process:

**1)** Contact NPS Class Coordinator Gay Ives (phone: 970-529-5023,
email: <gay_ives@nps.gov> and ARI Archaeologist Martin McAllister
(phone: 406-728-7195, email: <ari@bigsky.net>) and notify them that you
will be a class participant.

**2)** Non-Bureau of Land Management participants: contact ARI
Archaeologist Martin McAllister (phone: 406-728-7195, email:
<ari@bigsky.net>) to register and make arrangements for payment of the
tuition fee. Bureau of Land Management (BLM) participants also should
contact McAllister for further information concerning registration and
the tuition fee.  

 

The class tuition fee for non-BLM participants is
**[\$750.00]{.underline}**. (The BLM typically pays the tuition fee for
BLM participants.) Arrangements for payment of the tuition fee must be
made by the class registration deadline. Credit card charges (VISA,
MasterCard or American Express) are the preferred method of payment. 
(Credit cards will not be charged until after the class registration
deadline or until after the class, depending upon the instructions of
the participant.) Checks and purchase orders also will be accepted.  If
necessary, an invoice for the class tuition fee can be emailed or faxed
to the participant or their agency prior to the class. Information
required for purchase orders is as follows:

Martin E. McAllister

Archaeologist / Owner

Archaeological Resource Investigations (ARI)

4815 Larch Lane

Missoula, MT 59802

406-728-7195

(Tax Payer Identification Number, DUNS Number and CCR Cage Code are
available upon request.)

# TUITION FEE STATEMENT

# [PLEASE NOTE]{.underline}: UNLESS THE CLASS IS CANCELLED, TUITION FEES PAID OR OBLIGATED BY CREDIT CARD OR PURCHASE ORDER NORMALLY ARE [NOT REFUNDABLE]{.underline} AFTER THE CLASS REGISTRATION DEADLINE, EXCEPT IN EMERGENCY CIRCUMSTANCES. THIS IS REQUIRED DUE TO THE EXPENSES INCURRED BY ARI AFTER THE CLASS REGISTRATION DEADLINE (NONREFUNDABLE AIRFARES, ETC.).

# 

# [Class Logistical Information]{.underline}:

**Class Location:** Anasazi Heritage Center, 27501 Highway 184, Dolores,
CO. The class will be held in the "Multi-Use Room" (Anasazi Heritage
Center phone \# 970-882-5600).

**Class Lodging:** Holiday Inn Express, 2121 East Main, Cortez, CO,
970-565-6000

A block of rooms will be available at the federal government lodging
rate (\$75.00 per night, more than one person per room add \$30.00)
mention when making reservations to obtain this rate. A block of rooms
have been reserved and secured under Archaeological Resource
Investigations (ARI) ARPA Class.

**Other Class Logistics:** The class will begin promptly at 8:00 AM on
Monday, April 7, so participants should plan to arrive at the class
location shortly before 8:00 (driving time between Cortez and the
Anasazi Heritage Center is approximately 15 to 20 minutes). Please call
406-239-1874 if you will be late. On Friday, April 11, the class will
end between 2:00 and 3:00 PM.

Class materials are comprised of the information in National Park
Service Archeology Program Technical Brief 20, *Archeological Resource
Damage Assessment: Legal Basis and Methods* by Martin E McAllister.
Click on the following link to open the technical brief:
<http://www.cr.nps.gov/archeology/pubs/techBr/tch20.htm>

**NOTE:** A copy of the technical brief can be printed from the "print
version (pdf) link on the right hand side of the first page. Class
participants should review the technical brief in advance of the class
and bring a printed, three hole punched version of it with them to the
class. Three ring binders for the materials will be provided to class
participants on Monday morning. This binder also will be used for the
sets of class reports that will be distributed to class participants on
Thursday morning.

As indicated in the class schedule, the class will be spending Monday
afternoon in the field carrying out the field damage assessment
procedures at a damaged site or sites. Due to the number of topics to be
covered on Monday morning, a formal lunch break will not be taken that
day and participants should not expect to return from field until at
least 5:00 P.M. or possibly later. ***Please come to class on Monday
morning prepared to go the field. Please also bring a lunch or be
prepared to purchase a lunch on Monday morning that can be eaten on the
way to the field or at the damaged site. If you are planning activities
for Monday evening, please schedule them relative to when will be
arriving back from the field.*** (Monday afternoon is the only field
time.) Dress for the remainder of the class is casual.

As also indicated in the class schedule, Tuesday and Wednesday will be
spent on archaeological value and cost of restoration and repair
determinations that will be shown in tables and preparation of an
archaeological damage assessment report. ***Unless you are from the
local area and have access to a desktop computer where you will be able
to prepare the tables and the report, you [MUST]{.underline} bring a
laptop computer and a CD or USB flash drive with you to the class so you
can prepare your tables and report on the laptop and copy them to the CD
or flash drive for printing. Desktop computer facilities will
[not]{.underline} be available for participants who do not work in the
local area. Please be sure that you are familiar with the operation of
the laptop computer and that it is operating properly prior to the
class.*** Laptop computers will only be used Tuesday and Wednesday and
it is not necessary to bring them to class on Monday, Thursday or
Friday.

### Each class participant will receive a certificate upon successful completion of the class.

### 

### Items Required by Participants:

Printed class materials (see above)

Field clothing and footwear (we will go to the field Monday afternoon,
"rain or shine")

Canteen or water bottle

Archaeological recordation field equipment:

Clipboard, rule, notepaper, etc.

> Site mapping tools necessary to produce sketch map of assigned damaged
> areas at site (e.g.: compass, distance tape measure, graph paper,
> etc.; feet/yards tape measure recommended to avoid necessity of
> converting metric measurements to standard measurements)
>
> Pocket tape measure (inches/feet tape measure recommended)
>
> Digital camera (if available; Polaroid cameras may be provided by the
> BLM)

Calculator

Laptop computer and CD or USB flash drive for report preparation (unless
desktop computer is available in the local area)

If you have questions concerning class logistics, please contact ARI
Archaeologist Martin McAllister at the phone number or email address
shown above.

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# Archaeological Resource Investigations

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# ARCHAEOLOGICAL DAMAGE ASSESSMENT CLASS

## Class Description

The Archaeological Resources Protection Act of 1979 (ARPA) requires
assessment of archaeological damages for criminal prosecutions and civil
penalties under the act. These assessments also are required for
sentencing for archaeological violations under the Cultural Heritage
Guideline adopted by the United States Sentencing Commission in 2002.
Archaeologists who may be called upon to provide assistance in
archaeological violations cases on federal and Indian lands must be
prepared to assess damages according to the legal standards established
by ARPA and the act's uniform regulations. The ARPA archaeological
damage assessment procedures also can be used effectively in dealing
with violations of other laws, such as state archaeological protection
statutes.

Archaeological Resource Investigations' five-day Archaeological Damage
Assessment Class provides training on all aspects of the damage
assessment process. The instructors for the class are archaeologists
Martin McAllister and Chuck Wheeler. McAllister is the recognized
national authority on archaeological damage assessment. Topics covered
in the class are:

-   Field damage assessment procedures

-   Determination of archaeological value and cost of restoration and
    repair (including the Society for American Archaeology "Professional
    Standards for the Determination of Archaeological Value")

-   Archaeological damage assessment report preparation

-   The role of the archaeologist in litigation

-   Legal issues in archaeological cases

As shown in the accompanying class schedule, the class consists of:

-   Lectures

-   A field damage assessment exercise at damaged archaeological sites

-   A value and cost determination and damage assessment report
    preparation exercise

-   Presentation and critiques of the value and cost determinations and
    reports

The targeted participants for the class are professional archaeologists
employed by federal, tribal and state land management agencies and
professional contract archaeologists who may be called upon to carry out
archaeological damage assessment.

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**Archaeological Resource Investigations**

**ARCHAEOLOGICAL DAMAGE ASSESSMENT CLASS**

# Instruction By:

# Martin McAllister, Archaeologist, ARI

**Chuck Wheeler, Archaeologist, Western Cultural Resource Management,
Inc.**

**Class Schedule**

**[Monday April 7]{.underline}:**

**8:00 - 9:00** Welcome, Introductions, and Discussion of Class Goals
and Schedule: Class Host Representative(s), Mr. McAllister,
(Archaeologist Instructor), Mr. Wheeler (Archaeologist Instructor) and
Participants

**9:00 - 12:00** Review of ARPA Archaeological Damage Assessment
Procedures: Mr. McAllister and Mr. Wheeler

**12:00 - 1:00** Travel to Damaged Site(s) and Lunch: Class Host
Representative(s), Mr. McAllister, Mr. Wheeler and Participants

**1:00 - 4:00** Site Examination, Damage Area Assignments and Field
Damage Assessment by

> Participants: Individual Assistance by Class Host Representative(s),
> Mr. McAllister and Mr. Wheeler

**4:00 - 5:00** Return Travel from Damaged Site(s)

**[Tuesday April 8]{.underline}:**

**8:00 - 9:00** Review of ARPA Damage Assessment Report Content: Mr.
McAllister and Mr. Wheeler

**9:00 - 12:00** Archaeological Value and Cost of Restoration and Repair
Determination and Damage Assessment Report Preparation by Participants:
Individual Assistance by Mr. McAllister and Mr. Wheeler

**12:00 - 1:00** Lunch

**1:00 - 5:00** Value and Cost Determination and Damage Assessment
Report Preparation by

Participants Continued: Individual Assistance by Mr. McAllister and Mr.
Wheeler

**[Wednesday April 9]{.underline}:**

**8:00 - 9:00** Value and Cost Determination and Damage Assessment
Report Preparation

> Progress Reports and Problems (Attendance Optional): Mr. McAllister
> and Mr. Wheeler

**9:00 - 12:00** Value and Cost Determination and Damage Assessment
Report Preparation by

Participants Continued: Individual Assistance by Mr. McAllister and Mr.
Wheeler

**12:00 - 1:00** Lunch

**1:00 - 5:00** Value and Cost Determination and Damage Assessment
Report Preparation by

> Participants Continued and Completed: Individual Assistance by Mr.
> McAllister and Mr. Wheeler

**5:00** Reports Submitted and Copied for Instructors and Participants

**[Thursday April 10]{.underline}:**

**8:00 - 12:00** Damage Assessment Presentations by Participants (by
Topic): Critiques by Mr.

> Mr. McAllister and Mr. Wheeler

**12:00 - 1:00** Lunch

**1:00 - 5:00** Damage Assessment Presentations by Participants (by
Topic) Continued:

Critiques by Mr. McAllister and Mr. Wheeler

**[Friday April 11]{.underline}:**

**8:00 - 11:00** Damage Assessment Presentations by Participants (by
Topic) Continued and

Completed: Critiques by Mr. McAllister and Mr. Wheeler

**11:00 - 12:00** The Role of the Archaeologist in Litigation: Mr.
McAllister

**12:00 - 1:00** Lunch

**1:00 - 2:00** Legal Issues in Archaeological Cases: Mr. McAllister

**2:00 - 3:00** Written Critiques and Class Conclusion: Participants,
Mr. McAllister, Mr. Wheeler and Class Host Representative(s)