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This chapter discusses how archeologists decide the appropriate scope for projects – where and how archeologists are able to be creative, and when (if ever) they find a more “standard” approach is better suited to the task at hand. Drawing on their personal experience of undertaking archeological fieldwork across the USA in a variety of professional contexts, the authors consider what constraints they have faced when determining the scope of a project, and also what happens when archeologists make unexpected discoveries in the course of their work. The authors also discuss what latitude each has in changing projects while underway in order to best do the job that needs to be done. Perry discusses this in particular relation to his work for the US Army Corps of Engineers (USACE); Stottman in particular relation to his work for the Kentucky Archaeological Survey (KAS).
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Perry, R., Stottman, M.J. (2011). Scoping Archaeological Projects in Relation to Specific Regulations. In: Rockman, M., Flatman, J. (eds) Archaeology in Society. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-9881-1_9
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