NAGPRA, Inadvertent Discoveries (Other Keyword)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Keri Hicks. Theresa Thibault. John Kinsner.

This is an abstract from the "Beyond Collections: Federal Archaeology and "New Discoveries" under NAGPRA" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Post-1990 inadvertent discoveries are not uncommon but visiting a reported discovery is costly, typically requiring personnel to boat or fly to remote locations to verify land ownership as well as age and affiliation of the remains. An additional challenge is the common knowledge that some individuals were buried...