Assessing Site Significance is an invaluable resource for archaeologists and others who need guidance in determining whether sites are eligible for listing in the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP). Because the register's eligibility criteria were largely developed for standing sites, it is difficult to know in any particular case whether a site known primarily through archaeological work has sufficient 'historical significance' to be listed. Hardesty and Little address these challenges, describing how to file for NRHP eligibility and how to determine the historical significance of archaeological properties. This second edition brings everything up to date, and includes new material on 17th- and 18th-century sites, traditional cultural properties, shipwrecks, Japanese internment camps, and military properties.

By Donald L. Hardesty and Barbara J. Little

Preface
Preface to the Second Edition

Part One: Approaches to Assessing Significance
Chapter 1. Introduction
Chapter 2. Determining National Register Eligibility
Chapter 3. Scientific and Scholarly Significance

Part Two: Case Studies
Chapter 4. Linear Sites
Chapter 5. Industrial Sites and Monuments
Chapter 6. Domestic Sites and Farmsteads
Chapter 7. Large-Scale Sites

Summary
Glossary