Our Services
Arcas offers a full range of professional consulting services related to archaeological sites and other forms of cultural heritage. Our major service areas include:
Archaeological Assessments
- Archaeological overviews
- Archaeological inventories
- Archaeological site significance evaluations
- Archaeological impact assessments
- Heritage resource impact assessments
Archaeological Impact Mitigation
- Planning and impact avoidance
- Small and large-scale mitigation excavations
- Construction monitoring in sensitive cultural heritage areas
Archaeological Due Diligence Assessments
Culturally Modified Tree (CMT) Studies
- CMT inventories
- Audits of CMT inventories
- Lab analysis of CMT samples
Traditional Use Studies
- Documenting past and present traditional uses of land, water and natural resources by aboriginal peoples
- Documenting and mapping aboriginal trail networks
- Conducting interviews, archival research, ground truthing and mapping
Archaeological, Ethnographic and Historical Research
- Conducting research for planning, management, litigation and other purposes
- Land claims/treaty negotiations research
- Aboriginal title/rights documentation/litigation research
- Land use history documentation
- Artifact and human remains repatriation research
- Reviewing archaeological and ethnographic reports
- Presentations and expert witness testimony for public hearings, court, etc.
Education & Training
- Customized presentations, workshops and training for aboriginal persons, forestry workers and others
- CMT identification and recording training
- Archaeological site identification and management training
- Instruction on heritage legislation
Cultural Heritage Tourism
- Cultural heritage assessments for tourism studies
- Providing cultural heritage information for tourism enterprises
Cultural Heritage Management
- Working with aboriginal governments to develop heritage policy and heritage permitting systems
- Preparation of technical and non-technical cultural heritage reports
- Preparation of site alteration permit applications for development proponents
Archaeological Potential Modelling
- GIS modelling for evaluating archaeological resource potential