Community Members: Community Member Overall Average 3, 4, 4, 4, 4, 5, 5, 5, 5 Average Ranking: Ranking: How important do Mean: 4.33 you think local Median: 4 Mean: 4.45 history is to your Mode: 4, 5 Median: 5 community on a Mode: 5 Organizations: N/A scale of 1-5? 5, 5 Community Members: Community Member Overall Average How important do 2, 4, 4, 4, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5 Average Ranking: Ranking: you think artifacts Mean: 4.33 Median: 5 Mean: 4.36 are to your community on a Mode: 5 Median: 5 Mode: 5 scale of 1-5? Organizations: N/A 4, 5 ****Not Comparable only 8 responses*** How important do Community Members: N/A Overall Average you think 2, 3, 4, 4, 4, 4, 5, 5 Ranking: archaeology is to Organizations: N/A your community on 2, 5 N/A a scale of 1-5? The averages of the community responses to the local history and artifacts categories show that individuals ranked the artifacts to be equally as important as the local history. This is significant because there is a clear correlation between the importance of past material objects (artifacts) and the importance of local history. Local history is a category very much subjective to individual bias and can be thought of as a sub-category of heritage because of the lack of specificity in the question. The ties between heritage and material objects, as discussed in Chapter 3, are based on an
How important do you think local history is to your community on a scale of 1-5? Community Members: 3, 4, 4, 4, 4, 5, 5, 5, 5 Community Member Average Ranking: Mean: 4.33 Median: 4 Mode: 4, 5 Overall Average Ranking: Mean: 4.45 Median: 5 Mode: 5 Organizations: 5, 5 N/A How important do you think artifacts are to your community on a scale of 1-5? Community Members: 2, 4, 4, 4, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5 Community Member Average Ranking: Mean: 4.33 Median: 5 Mode: 5 Overall Average Ranking: Mean: 4.36 Median: 5 Mode: 5 Organizations: 4, 5 N/A ****Not Comparable only 8 responses*** How important do you think archaeology is to your community on a scale of 1-5? Community Members: 2, 3, 4, 4, 4, 4, 5, 5 N/A Overall Average Ranking: N/A Organizations: 2, 5 N/A The averages of the community responses to the local history and artifacts categories show that individuals ranked the artifacts to be equally as important as the local history. This is significant because there is a clear correlation between the importance of past material objects (artifacts) and the importance of local history. Local history is a category very much subjective to individual bias and can be thought of as a sub-category of heritage because of the lack of specificity in the question. The ties between heritage and material objects, as discussed in Chapter 3, are based on an
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