Legacy collections; bioarchaeology (Other Keyword)

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Four Down, 6,000 to Go: Processing and Researching the (not) St. Joseph’s Cemetery Site Legacy Collection (2019)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Karen Price. Alexis O'Donnell. William Marquardt. Heather Edgar.

This is an abstract from the "Historical Archaeologies of the American Southwest, 1800 to Today" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Archaeological legacy collections found in museums and repositories across the nation continue to present challenging and intriguing research opportunities. Basic processing of artifacts and field notes within these older collections can itself feel like an excavation and the slow process of addressing an institution’s...