Cultural Resource Management Toolbox: Tasks

In this Cultural Resource Management Toolbox there are 9 sites. In this Tasks section you will be looking closely at the conservation needs of 4 of these sites - The Knapping Site at the Learningscape, the Inland Site, the Lakeside Site and the Coastal Site. Each of these sites has had environmental impacts caused by nature or people. How a site officer responds to environmental impacts on various sites is more often a consideration of site conservation rather than site interpretation. As such these tasks relate to cultural site conservation rather than archaeology.

In the first 4 Conservation Tasks you have to: decide what kind of environmental impact has happened on each site; decide what is the best response to the impact to conserve the site; and work out what it will take to in time and money to carry out the conservation and preservation work; sequence the implementation of the task required; and draw a plan of the site with the implemented tasks shown.

In Task 5, you have to decide which sites are most important and significant. Then you have to plan how you're going to spend a limited budget to best conserve the sites in order of importance.

In Task 6, the final task you have to draw up a conservation plan for a site in your own country.

	Background Information on Environmental Impacts & Responses This page provides information on the types of impacts, appropriate responses to impacts and how things to consider when planning a strategy.

	Task 1. Conserving the Knapping Site in the Learningscape This is a close look at the conservation needs of the Learningscape and the Knapping Site in the Learningscape.

	Task 2. Conserving the Inland Site This is a close look at the conservation needs of the Blade Knapping site within the Inland Site.

	Task 3. Conserving the Lakeside Site This is a close study of the conservation needs of a very fragile real site, the Lakeside site.

	Task 4. Conserving the Coastal Site This is a look at the conservation needs of the Coastal site and its special circumstances.
	Task 5. Planning and Budgeting This is an exercise to examine how to prioritise a number of conservation tasks and how to fit them into a limited budget.
	Task 6. Conserving a Site in Your Country This part prompts you to document a plan for conserving a site in your country.


	A Site Officer's main job is to conserve sites of cultural significance After you identify and document them of course Conservation takes time, money and planning You've had a close look at 9 sites Now you have to look at how some of these sites have been damaged And what you, as a Cultural Site officer, would do the prevent further damage How you would conserve the sites so the culture's not lost for future generations We're depending on you.