A historical context and archaeological research design for agricultural properties in California.

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• Corporate Creators:
  California. Department of Transportation
• Corporate Contributors:
  United States. Federal Highway Administration
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  Agriculture Archaeology California Historic Sites History Research
• Resource Type:
  Tech Report
• Geographical Coverage:
  California
• Corporate Publisher:
  California. Department of Transportation
• Abstract:
  Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act (NHPA) requires that federal agencies take
  
  into account the effects of their undertakings upon historic properties. Caltrans, in cooperation
  
  with the State Historic Preservation Office (SHPO) and the Federal Highway Administration
  
  (FHWA), prepared this document to assist with evaluating the information potential of
  
  agricultural properties in California in an effort to streamline Section 106 consultation. This
  
  document is the first in a series produced by Caltrans, with consultant-prepared studies covering
  
  mining sites, work camps, and town sites each bound separately. Caltrans plans additional
  
  studies as funding permits.
  
  Properties may be eligible for the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) under any one, or
  
  combination, of four criteria. This document concerns itself solely with eligibility under
  
  Criterion D, which states that properties may be eligible for the National Register (NR) if they
  
  “have yielded, or may be likely to yield, information important in prehistory or history.”1
  
  National Register Bulletin 15 provides important guidance on applying Criterion D, which has
  
  two requirements that must both be met for a property to qualify: “the property must have, or
  
  have had, information to contribute to our understanding of human history or prehistory, and the
  
  information must be considered important.”2 An integral part of this study is a research design
  
  that explicitly demonstrates the connection between the information and the property, and helps
  
  define whether the information that a property contains is important or not. A good research
  
  design “specifies not only the questions to be asked, but also the types of data needed to supply
  
  the answers.”3 The importance of a good research design and interdisciplinary research cannot be
  
  overstated. The need for integrated and holistic approaches to site-specific research has proven
  
  to be a valuable tool in reaching defensible arguments regarding eligibility.
  
  
• Format:
  PDF
• Collection(s):
  US Transportation Collection
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  urn:sha256:8b7330520ae7e7af1dee15d0deea97675e7d6129a68ed6e33cf834675da196a7
• Download URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/27535/dot_27535_DS1.pdf
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