El origen del ambientalismo arqueológico en la obra pública española (II)la Arqueología de Rescate en la construcción de la Autovía A-92 Norte, Baza-Venta Quemada (1994-1995)

Abstract

The environmentalist archaeology applied to the construction of this section of Highway A-92 was a research project into the disciplinary foundations of archaeological conservation. It reveals that the high rates of environmental impact in archaeology are induced by inadequate planning, faced with the inhibition of interadministrative management that implies the common undervaluation of cultural heritage. This oversizes the environmental impact, problematizing the construction and saturating the archaeological conservation project itself. Thus it has no capacity to execute the environmental mitigation, which remains pending after the excavations. This original vice and its malpractice, characteristic of European Preventive Archaeology under way, becomes acute in Spanish archaeological emergency management, where the absence of administrative forecasting and of disciplinary updating leads to the outdated underproduction of Salvage Archaeology. The archaeology of this highway is disruptive with all this pre-environmentalist tradition of archaeological conservation