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Ministry of Tourism,
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Archaeology |
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Information Bulletin Number 17 - Revised October 27, 2006
(N.B. Revisions
appear in italics and consist of the first two paragraphs under the heading "Conditions")
Field Director Qualifications
The Archaeology Branch’s “Operational Procedures –
Heritage Permits” describes the criteria the branch expects a
permit holder (or field director if different from the permit holder)
to meet when conducting work that is authorized under a resource management
permit, i.e., heritage inspection permits for archaeological impact
assessments and heritage investigation permits for systematic data recovery.
The purpose of this bulletin is to clarify the requirements
for a field director who is not the permit holder. In this
context, a field director is defined as the person authorized by the
permit holder to direct the permitted work in the field so that appropriate
expertise is available to make key methodological decisions, e.g., shovel
test sampling, the need to excavate evaluative units, the need to screen
excavated soils.
For an individual who is a field director but not the permit holder,
the following requirements and conditions apply:
Requirements
• MA degree in archaeology, or anthropology with a specialty
in archaeology, or BA degree with an equivalent combination of post-graduate
training and experience (exceptions may be considered upon request to
the branch);
• experience in archaeological resource management (approx. 360
working days) that includes approximately 40 days supervising archaeological
impact assessments in the general culture area for which the permit
is sought (e.g., Northwest Coast, Interior Plateau, Sub-Arctic/Boreal
Forest);
• experience conducting archaeological excavations (approx. 60
working days) that includes approximately 20 days supervising the systematic
recovery of data (heritage investigation permits only);
Conditions
•All fieldwork being conducted under a Heritage Conservation Act permit must be directed by the permit holder and/or authorized field directors who are present at at least one of the locations where work is being conducted under their direction, on the day it is being conducted. Permit holders and/or field directors must be able to reach every one of the fieldwork locations they are directing on the day the work is being done. That is, if a field director is directing work at, for example, four locations, on a given day, he or she must be present at least one of those, and must be able to visit all four on that day, not just any one of the remaining three.
The Archaeology Branch will consider exceptions to these requirements that would allow a permit holder or field director to direct work at more than one location under more than one permit, if the permit holder can demonstrate that adequate direction will be provided (for example because the project locations are close together and/or because key methodological decisions are not likely to be required at some locations).
Please see the detailed rationale for the above changes to Conditions.
• permit reports (interim and final) must describe how the field
director(s) participated in the fieldwork on a day-by-day and project-by-project
basis;
• in cases where a permit application provides for the addition
or replacement of a field director(s), the permit holder must submit
a written request to the branch archaeologist responsible for the permit
file for a change in field director(s), and must include information
demonstrating how the new field director(s) meets the above noted academic
and experiential qualifications;
• a permit amendment, involving referral to a First Nation(s),
is required in cases where the application does not provide for the
addition or replacement of a field director(s), and a change in field
director(s) is required;
The use of unapproved field directors is a breach of permit, and may
affect the permit holder’s ability to hold future permits, as
well as the branch’s ability to provide impact management direction
to the permit holder’s client(s).
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