Preventive Archaeology Policies

Many public policies for preventive archaeology have been developed with the urgent need to rescue archaeological sites in danger of destruction. As a result, the focus of policies is often on preserving archaeological sites, not on communicating their values, which brings unintended effects on the way in which professional archaeologists communicate with the public. My research aims to analyse how the public policy for preventive archaeology affects the communication between professional archaeologists and the public, by comparing England and Japan, as typical examples for the two contrasting approaches of governance; ‘market-based’ and ‘public-service’.