Archaeological Data as a Basis for Repository Marker Design
Title | Archaeological Data as a Basis for Repository Marker Design PDF eBook |
Author | Analytic Sciences Corporation |
Publisher | |
Pages | 92 |
Release | 1982 |
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Archaeological Data as a Basis for Repository Marker Design
Title | Archaeological Data as a Basis for Repository Marker Design PDF eBook |
Author | Maureen F. Kaplan |
Publisher | |
Pages | 104 |
Release | 1982 |
Genre | Radioactive waste disposal |
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Archaeological Data as a Basis for Repository Marker Design
Title | Archaeological Data as a Basis for Repository Marker Design PDF eBook |
Author | |
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Pages | 92 |
Release | 1982 |
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This report concerns the development of a marking system for a nuclear waste repository which is very likely to survive for 10,000 years. In order to provide a background on the subject, and for the preliminary design presented in this report, a discussion is presented about the issues involved in human interference with the repository system and the communication of information. A separate chapter summarizes six ancient man-made monuments including: materials, effects of associated textual information on our understanding of the monument, and other features of the ancient monument relevant to marking a repository site. The information presented in the two chapters is used to provide the basis and rationale for a preliminary marker system design presented in a final chapter. 86 refs., 22 figs., 1 tab.
Archaeological Data as a Basis for Repository Marker Design
Title | Archaeological Data as a Basis for Repository Marker Design PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 92 |
Release | 1982 |
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Energy Research Abstracts
Title | Energy Research Abstracts PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 852 |
Release | 1990 |
Genre | Power resources |
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The Future of Nuclear Waste
Title | The Future of Nuclear Waste PDF eBook |
Author | Rosemary Joyce |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 305 |
Release | 2020-01-24 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 0190888164 |
How can nations ensure that buried nuclear waste goes undisturbed for thousands of years? The United States government tried to solve this problem with the help of experts they identified in communication, materials science, and futurism. From the perspective of a contemporary archaeologist, The Future of Nuclear Waste looks at what these experts suggested, and what the government endorsed: designs for a modern monument, an artificial ruin, a purpose-built archaeological site that would escape future exploration. One design, selected for development, argued that because specific archaeological sites and objects (among them Stonehenge, Serpent Mound, the Rosetta Stone, and rock art) made long ago have endured and are seen as significant today, contemporary engineers could build monuments that would be equally effective in conveying messages that last even longer. An alternative proposal, which government planners set aside, was rooted in the idea that universal archetypes of design arouse similar human emotions in all times and places. Both proposals used common sense, assuming that human reactions and understandings are relatively predictable. Employing an anthropology of common sense, Rosemary Joyce explores why people chosen for their expertise relied on generalizations contradicted by the actual history of preservation and interpretation of archaeological sites and the closest analogues to archetype-based designs, which are the large scale installations produced in the Land Art movement. The book reveals the underlying imagination shared by the experts, government planners, and artists, in which the American West is an empty space available for projects like these. It counters this with the dissenting voices of indigenous scholars and activists who document the presence on these nuclear landscapes of Native American people. The result is an eye-opening and unique demonstration of how a deep understanding of the remote past informs critical debates about the present.
Archaeology and Public Perception of a Transscientific Problem
Title | Archaeology and Public Perception of a Transscientific Problem PDF eBook |
Author | Isaac Judah Winograd |
Publisher | |
Pages | 18 |
Release | 1987 |
Genre | Environmental archaeology |
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See journals under US Geological survey. Circular 990.