An Archaeological Curation-Needs Assessment for Headquarters Air Combat Command - Volume 1

Summary

Between September 1993 and May 1995, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, St. Louis District's Mandatory Center of Expertise for the Curation and Management of Archaeological Collections (MCX) conducted a survey of archaeological collections and associated documentation generated from archaeological investigations conducted on 42 U.S. Air Force, Air Combat Command (ACC) installations.

This initial volume addressed collections from the following installations: Avon Park Air Force Range, Florida; Barksdale Air Force Base, Louisiana; Beale Air Force Base, California; Cannon Air Force Base, New Mexico; Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, Arizona; Fairchild Air Force Base, Washington; Holloman Air Force Base, New Mexico; Langley Air Force Base, Virginia; MacDiII Air Force Base, Florida; Melrose Air Force Range, New Mexico; and Poinsett Air Force Range and Shaw Air Force Base, South Carolina.

In sum, approximately 101 cubic feet of artifacts in 34 distinct collections and approximately 13 linear feet of records and 125 reports from ACC installations are being curated by 19 repositories in eight different states. All collections require at least partial rehabilitation to comply with Federal regulations, and 50% of the collections require complete rehabilitation.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• USACE (MCX-CMAC) - Archaeological Curation-Needs Assessments

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Contact(s): US Army Corps of Engineers Mandatory Center of Expertise for the Curation and Management of Archaeological Collections, St. Louis District

Landowner(s): Fairchild Air Force Base, Washington; Beale Air Force Base, California; Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, Arizona; Melrose Air Force Range, New Mexico; Cannon Air Force Base, New Mexico; Holloman Air Force Base, New Mexico; Barksdale Air Force Base, Louisiana; Shaw Air Force Base; Poinsett Air Force Range, South Carolina; MacDill Air Force Range, Florida; Avon Park Air Force Range, Florida

Sponsor(s): Headquarters Air Combat Command, Langley Air Force Base, Virgina

Repository(s): Arizona State Museum (ASM), Tucson, Arizona; Davis-Monthan AFB, Tucson, Arizona; Beale AFB Museum, Marysville, California; PAR Environmental Services, Inc., Sacramento, California; Avon Park AFR, Avon Park, Florida; JANUS Research, Inc., and rented storage space, St. Petersburg, Florida; University of South Florida, Tampa (USF-Tampa); SCIAA, Columbia, South Carolina; Shaw AFB, Sumter, South Carolina; Agency for Conservation Archaeology (ACA) warehouse, Portales, New Mexico; US Army Corps of Engineers, Albuquerque District, New Mexico; Holloman AFB, Alamogordo, New Mexico; Human Systems Research, Inc.; Museum of Indian Arts and Culture/Laboratory of Anthropology Archaeological Research Collections (MIAC/LOA ARC), specifically, the Laboratory of Anthropology (LOA) and the La Villa Rivera (LVR) Building, Santa Fe, New Mexico; Maxwell Museum of Anthropology and its warehouse annex, Albuquerque, New Mexico; New Mexico Archaeological Records Management Section (NMARMS), Santa Fe, New Mexico; Office of Contract Archaeology (OCA), University of NEW Mexico, Albuquerque; Langley AFB, Newport News, Virginia; College of William and Mary Center for Archaeological Research (WMCAR), Williamsburg, Virginia; CHRS, Inc., Sharon Hill, Pennsylvania

Prepared By(s): US Army Corps of Engineers Mandatory Center of Expertise for the Curation and Management of Archaeological Collections, St. Louis District

Submitted To(s): Headquarters Air Combat Command, Langley Air Force Base, Virgina

Notes

General Note: Technical Report has 2 parts Part 2: ID: 407089

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