Arqueología Preventiva y Patrimonio Mundialel ejemplo español como base para el cambio en el ejercicio de la gestión arqueológica

Resumo

This paper aims to make World Heritage cities and landscapes become role models regarding the preventive treatment of their archaeological elements.To this end, some definitions are pointed out, acknowledging and advocating for a broad concept of Archaeological Heritage, whose study can be used to provide the sites with an archaeological dimension that make them more attractive and comprehensible.The work is followed with a model of preventive Archaeology (PreA), based on the Spanish experience and connected with land planning. The main objective of this modern model is to prevent the archaeological sites from damages of the works and land movements. The stages and procedures of the model are further detailed,as well as PreA advantages: it avoids surprises, it rationalizes work processes, and it will give Archaeology the possibility of designing research models and objects —not to mention the possibility of giving cultural assets a character that will make them different and, at the same time, more available and attractive to our society.