ACME offers desktop reviews & sensitivity assessments; these are helpful tools during the preliminary planning stage of a project to identify potential cultural resources. Typically, desktop reviews are summaries of publicly accessible literature, maps, aerials, and listings from numerous online databases.

Built Environment Sensitivity Assessments: are a useful tool for predicting the potential for the existence of historic-era buildings, structures, objects, and features within or near a project location, and can also assist in the prediction of buried historic-era archaeological deposits.

The process involves a desktop review of local historic-era maps, aerials, and local, state, and federal registers and inventories. Historical maps & aerials are useful in determining the history of development and the age of undocumented cultural resources located in or near a project area.

Buried Archaeological Site Sensitivity Assessments: analyzes the potential for buried archaeological/cultural resources in a specific area. The method uses a geoarchaeological approach that combines the fields of geomorphology and archaeology to produce a risk assessment for an area to contain buried archaeological/cultural resources.

This process involves a desktop review of local geologic and soil documents to analyze the project's underlying geologic unit, landform type, and soils. This is important because certain landforms and soils have a higher potential to contain buried archaeological/cultural resources (e.g., Holocene-age alluvium with an Ab soil horizon).

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