Archaeological heritage has significant impacts on development in the Global South. Projects have informed environmental policies or improved local communities’ prospects in managing their heritage resources, and sites promote local economic development through tourism. However, many of these development impacts are short-lived or disappointing due to a lack of critical awareness and tracing of how the project fits with local objectives and its consequences over time. This is related to inadequate or insufficient evaluation.

This paper argues that the heritage sector has much to gain from considering evaluation problems through a development lens. It reviews how archaeology contributes to development, the successes and shortcomings of past efforts, and how evaluation can help. The paper then discusses public archaeology as a natural theoretical and methodological bridge between archaeology and international development, and examines the limits of current evaluation methods, which are not systematic or focus on a limited number of impacts.

Looking ahead, the review recommends testing development evaluation methods in the context of archaeological projects to develop the toolbox of evaluation methods available in the heritage sector.

考古遗产对全球南方的发展具有重大影响。项目为环境政策提供了参考或改善了当地社区在管理其遗产资源方面的前景，并且遗址通过旅游业促进了当地经济发展。然而，由于缺乏对项目如何符合当地目标及其随时间推移产生的后果的批判意识和追踪，许多这些发展影响是短暂的或令人失望的。这与评估不充分或不充分有关。

本文认为，从发展的角度考虑评估问题，遗产部门可以获益良多。它回顾了考古学如何促进发展，过去努力的成功和缺点，以及评估如何提供帮助。然后，本文讨论了公共考古学作为考古学与国际发展之间的天然理论和方法论桥梁，并检验了当前评估方法的局限性，这些评估方法不系统或只关注有限数量的影响。

展望未来，审查建议在考古项目的背景下测试开发评估方法，以开发遗产部门可用的评估方法工具箱。