Preservation Research:

In pursuing a preservation agenda, these questions provide
appropriate points of departure for articulating and addressing
the research needs of cultural resource management:

1. Basic inventories:  What resources have been lost, what
remains, and where were/are they?  Where is the information
about the resources is located?

2. Assessment:  What is significant about the resource, and why
or how does it relate to the whole?

3. Preservation plan:  How much of the resource should be
preserved, and how do preservation priorities effect other
resource needs and concerns?

4. Prescription:  What intervention is needed and how is that
determined?

5. Treatment:  What tools can be adapted to facilitate
preservation activities?

<ffile78>   Research Towards a Future
<ffile80>   Professional Prerequisites
<bfile20>   Future Management Needs