Feasible Management of Archaeological Heritage Sites Open to Tourism

185 Pages·2019·10.92 MB·English

by  Douglas C. Comer

Douglas C. Comer · Annemarie Willems
Editors
Feasible
Management of
Archaeological
Heritage Sites
Open to Tourism
Feasible Management of Archaeological Heritage
Sites Open to Tourism
Douglas C. Comer • Annemarie Willems
Editors
Feasible Management of
Archaeological Heritage
Sites Open to Tourism
Editors
Douglas C. Comer Annemarie Willems
Cultural Site Research and Management Friends of ICAHM
Baltimore, MD, USA Baltimore, MD, USA
The United States National Committee AW Heritage Consultancy
for ICOMOS (US/ICOMOS) Jyväskylä, Finland
Washington, DC, USA
Helsinki University
The International Scientific Committee Faculty of Arts
for Archaeological Heritage Management Helsinki, Finland
(ICOMOS/ICAHM)
Baltimore, MD, USA
ISBN 978-3-319-92755-8 ISBN 978-3-319-92756-5 (eBook)
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Acknowledgements
This publication draws from sessions that addressed the issues associated with
archaeological heritage and tourism which were organized at several conferences
by, amongst others, the ICOMOS International Scientific Committee for
Archaeological Heritage Management (ICAHM). These include the European
Association of Archaeologists’ (EAA) Annual Meetings in Istanbul (2014), Glasgow
(2015) and Vilnius (2016) as well as the Society for American Archaeology
Conference in San Francisco (2015) and the ICAHM Annual Meeting in Salalah
(2016). We are thankful to our colleagues: Cynthia Dunning, Ben Thomas, Sonja
Jilek, Chris Corlett, Gavin MacGregor, Christopher Prescott, Peter Biehl and Hilary
Soderland, for (co)organizing these sessions.
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Contents
1 Introduction: Feasibility as the Cornerstone
of Effective Management of Public Archaeological Sites . . . . . . . . . . 1
Douglas C. Comer and Annemarie Willems
2 Cultural Value and Sustainable Development:
A Framework for Assessing the Tourism Potential
of Heritage Places . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Chris Landorf
3 Managing Herculaneum in Context: Measuring
Benefits for People and Places . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Sarah Court, Ascanio D’Andrea, Francesca Del Duca,
Paola Pesaresi, and Jane Thompson
4 Vikings and World Heritage: Towards
New Strategic Synergies? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Herdis Hølleland
5 The Tyranny of Materiality: Sacred Landscapes,
Tourism and Community Narratives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Ashton Sinamai
6 S ustainable Archaeological Tourism Through
Standards for Good Practice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
Cynthia Dunning Thierstein
7 A rchaeotourism, Archaeological Site Preservation,
and Local Communities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
Ben Thomas and Meredith Langlitz
8 T he Curse of the Betrothed: Evaluating the Relationship
Between Archaeology and Tourism in Croatia AD 2017 . . . . . . . . . . . 79
Sanjin Mihelić
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9 Archaeology and Tourism in Ireland:
Bridging Two Cultures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
Ian W. Doyle
10 Archaeologist for a Week: Voluntourism in Archaeology . . . . . . . . . . 105
Katharina Möller
11 Archaeotourism Spaces in Present-Day Poland:
Thoughts on Reconstruction and Re-enactments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115
Michał Pawleta
12 The European Route of Megalithic Culture:
Pathways to Europe’s Earliest Stone Architecture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129
Daniela Stefanie Hauf
13 W estphalian Megaliths Go Touristic: Archaeological
Research as a Base for the Development of Tourism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141
Kerstin Schierhold
14 A rchaeology and Tourism – Problems and Possibilities:
An Example from West Sweden . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151
Tony Axelsson
15 The eScape Project: Combining Archaeology
and Art to Merge the Past with the Present . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159
Lene Høst-Madsen, Marianne Purup, and Nina Bangsbo Dissing
16 Conclusion: Feasibility Assessment at Public
Archaeological Heritage Sites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171
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Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179
Contributors
Tony  Axelsson Department of Historical studies, Gothenburg University,
Gothenburg, Sweden
Nina Bangsbo Dissing Kunstråd Skanderborg, Skanderborg, Denmark
Douglas  C.  Comer Cultural Site Research and Management, Baltimore,
MD, USA
The United States National Committee for ICOMOS (US/ICOMOS), Washington,
DC, USA
The International Scientific Committee for Archaeological Heritage Management
(ICOMOS/ICAHM), Baltimore, MD, USA
Sarah Court Herculaneum Conservation Project, Rome, Italy
Ascanio D’Andrea Herculaneum Conservation Project, Aosta, Italy
Francesca Del Duca Herculaneum Conservation Project, Ercolano, Italy
Ian W. Doyle The Heritage Council of Ireland, Kilkenny, Republic of Ireland
Cynthia Dunning Thierstein ArchaeoConcept, Biel/Bienne, Switzerland
Daniela Stefanie Hauf Straubing, Germany
Herdis  Hølleland The Norwegian Institute for Cultural Heritage Research
(NIKU), Oslo, Norway
Lene Høst-Madsen Museum Skanderborg, Skanderborg, Denmark
Chris Landorf School of Architecture, The University of Queensland, Brisbane,
QLD, Australia
Meredith Langlitz Archaeological Institute of America, Boston, MA, USA
Sanjin Mihelić Archaeological Museum in Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
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Katharina  Möller School of History and Archaeology, Prifysgol Bangor
University, Bangor, UK
Michał  Pawleta Institute of Archaeology, Adam Mickiewicz University,
Poznań, Poland
Paola Pesaresi Herculaneum Conservation Project, Milan, Italy
Marianne Purup VisitSkanderborg, Skanderborg, Denmark
Kerstin  Schierhold LWL-Commission for Westphalian Antiquities, Münster,
Germany
Ashton  Sinamai College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences, Flinders
University, Australia
Ben Thomas Archaeological Institute of America, Boston, MA, USA
Jane Thompson Herculaneum Conservation Project, Rome, Italy
Annemarie Willems Friends of ICAHM, Baltimore, MD, USA
AW Heritage Consultancy, Jyväskylä, Finland
Helsinki University, Faculty of Arts, Helsinki, Finland
About the Authors
Douglas C. Comer is principal, Cultural Site Research and Management, Inc.

(CSRM) (www.culturalsite.com). CSRM operates in the United States, Europe,
the Middle East, Southeast Asia, Africa, South America and Central America.
Dr. Comer is president of the Unites States Committee for ICOMOS (US/ICOMOS)
and immediate past president for ICOMOS-ICAHM.
Dr. Comer specializes in planning for the management and interpretation of
archaeological sites and landscapes and in the use of aerial and satellite remote
sensing for archaeological research and resource protection. He is a recipient of
NSF, SERDP, NCPTT, NASA, ESRI, Kaplan Fund, GeoEye and other grants and
has published extensively on cultural resource management and the use technology
in archaeology.
Dr. Comer has served as the chief of the US National Park Service Applied
Archaeology Center, a Fulbright scholar in cultural resource management, chair of
the Maryland Governors Advisory Committee on Archaeology, a research fellow at
the Southeast Asian Center for Archaeology and the Fine Arts (SPAFA) in Bangkok
and the American Center for Oriental Research (ACOR) in Amman, chair of the
nominating committee for the Register of Professional Archaeologists (RPA) and a
trustee for the United States Committee for the International Council of Monuments
and Sites (ICOMOS).
Annemarie Willems is the executive director for Friends of ICAHM, an organiza-

tion that has been created to support the mission of ICAHM through the dissemina-
tion of information concerning world heritage. Since 2016, Annemarie Willems has
her own consultancy practice in heritage management, AW Heritage Consultancy
(www.awheritageconsultancy.org). Annemarie Willems holds an MA in cultural
heritage from the University of Utrecht, the Netherlands. Upon obtaining her mas-
ter’s degree in 2007, Annemarie became active at the Centre for International
Heritage Activities (CIE) in Amsterdam (currently in Leiden), the Netherlands, as
‘project officer in cultural heritage’. From 2011 until 2015, she lived in Switzerland
where she was responsible for international projects at a private company called
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