What can agencies glean from the poll?
Kintigh: The most striking thing was the number of people who had visited a site. The other was the degree to which people think it’s important to have laws against looting. McManamon: It goes straight back to the policy embedded in the Antiquities Act. These are public resources, and they ought to be treated that way. They’re not for personal gain. It’s pretty clear that people get a lot of their information about archeology through mass media. We’ve got to figure out a way to tap into that more frequently, more systematically. A lot of our public education effort has been focused on the school systemwhich is extremely important in the long runbut the survey seems to argue for trying to work with the television producers. Kintigh: The SAA executive committee had a discussion about it just this past weekend. Going after TV is a challenge for us. As a start, we need to get archeologists in the government and academia to identify interesting projects. Then we need to set up mechanisms to
