Conclusion

As the NHPA’s application to historic sites became increasingly codified in the 1970s, the field of historical archaeology also continued to develop and incorporate anthropological concerns, particularly with subjects like culture contact, ethnicity, and race. By the 1980s, large federally mandated projects conducted by private cultural resource management companies drastically increased the body of archaeological data available across the country, and urban projects began to consciously address broader interpretive questions of neighborhood development and identity. 

This effort would soon have broader impacts, as the 1990s saw the scope of archaeology in the city expanding considerably, addressing issues like creolization and hybridity, capitalism and inequality, racialization, identity, and memory, and we continue to do so today.