Kurtarma arkeolojisi

Kurtarma arkeolojisi, ya da diğer bilinen adlarıyla kurtarma kazıları, prevantif (önleyici) arkeoloji ya da ticari yahut sözleşmeli arkeoloji, devlet tarafından onaylanmış, kâr amacı güden arkeolojik kazı ve araştırmalara verilen addır. Bu tür kazılar bir inşaat, yol ya da baraj inşası planlanırken arazi çalışmaları sırasında tesadüfen bulunan buluntuların en kısa sürede belgelenerek kayda alınmasını amaçlamaktadır.

Kurtarma kazısı yürütülen bazı noktalar 

 Levzin Höyük
 Giricano Höyüğü
 Gre Abdurrahman Höyüğü
Kerküşti Höyük
Ovabayındır
Kaklık Mevkii
Göztepe / Yalova Düz Yerleşmesi
Çavdarlı Höyük
Kınık Yamaç Yerleşmesi
Kayapınar Höyüğü
Pygela Antik Kenti

Konuyla ilgili yayınlar 

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 Everill, Paul. 2009. The Invisible Diggers: A Study of British Commercial Archaeology. Oxbow Books. 
 Hutchings, Rich. 2014. "The Miner’s Canary"—What the Maritime Heritage Crisis Says About Archaeology, Cultural Resource Management, and Global Ecological Breakdown. Unpublished PhD dissertation, Interdisciplinary Studies, University of British Columbia.  
 Hutchings, Rich and Marina La Salle. 2012. Five Thoughts on Commercial Archaeology. Electronic document.  
 Hutchings, Rich and Marina La Salle. 2015. Archaeology as Disaster Capitalism. International Journal of Historical Archaeology [Forthcoming]  
 King, Thomas F. 2012. Cultural Resource Laws and Practice: An Introductory Guide (4th Edition). Altamira Press.  
 King, Thomas F. 2009. Our Unprotected Heritage: Whitewashing the Destruction of Our Cultural and Natural Environment. Left Coast Press.  
 King, Thomas F. 2005. Doing Archaeology: A Cultural Resource Management Perspective. Left Coast Press.  
 La Salle, Marina and Rich Hutchings. 2012. Commercial Archaeology in British Columbia. The Midden 44(2): 8-16.  
 Neumann, Thomas W. and Robert M. Sanford. 2010. Cultural Resources Archaeology: An Introduction (2nd Edition). Rowman and Littlefield.  
 Lavachery, P., MacEachern, S., Bouimon, T. & Mbida Mindzie, C. 2010. Komé-Kribi. Rescue Archaeology along the Chad-Cameroon Oil Pipeline, 1999-2004 . Africa Magna, Frankfurt a. M. ()
 Neumann, Thomas W. and Robert M. Sanford. 2010. Practicing Archaeology: A Training Manual for Cultural Resources Archaeology (2nd Edition). Rowman and Littlefield. 
 Nissley, Claudia and Thomas F. King. 2014. Consultation and Cultural Heritage: Let Us Reason Together. Left Coast Press.  
 Smith, Laurajane. 2004. Archaeological Theory and Politics of Cultural Heritage. Routledge.  
 Smith, Laurajane. 2001. Archaeology and the Governance of Material Culture: A Case Study from South-Eastern Australia. Norwegian Archaeological Review 34(2): 97-105.  
 Smith, Laurajane. 2000. A History of Aboriginal Heritage Legislation in South-Eastern Australia. Australian Archaeology 50: 109-118.  
 Stapp, Darby and Julia J. Longenecker. 2009. Avoiding Archaeological Disasters: A Risk Management Approach. Left Coast Press.  
 White, Gregory G. and Thomas F. King. 2007. The Archaeological Survey Manual. Left Coast Press.  
 Zorzin, Nicolas. 2014. Heritage Management and Aboriginal Australians: Relations in a Global, Neoliberal Economy—A Contemporary Case Study from Victoria. Archaeologies: The Journal of the World Archaeological Congress 10(2): 132-167.  
 Zorzin, Nicolas. 2011. Contextualising Contract Archaeology in Quebec: Political Economy and Economic Dependencies. Archaeological Review from Cambridge 26(1): 119-135.  
 Zorzin, Nicolas. 2010. The Political Economy of a Commercial Archaeology: A Quebec Case-Study. Unpublished PhD dissertation, Faculty of Humanities (Archaeology), University of Southampton.  

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