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DOCUMENT Citation Only Katherine Dungan.

This is an abstract from the "Ideas, Ethical Ideals, and Museum Practice in North American Archaeological Collections" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In addition to being tangible heritage and a material cultural record of the archaeological past, archaeological museum collections are products of archaeological and curation practice during and after the time of their collection. Likewise, the laws, rules, and procedures that shape archaeological...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Samuel E Bakeis. Harold K Cooper.

This is a poster submission presented at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Fort Ouiatenon was established by the French in 1717 in what is today northwest Indiana to protect their interests in the region and engage in trade with Indigenous People in the Wabash River valley. Excavations at Ouiatenon in the 1960s and 70s recovered thousands of artifacts including many metal trade goods and numerous fragments of sheet copper and copper alloys. Copper sheet...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jeremy Coltman. Andrew Turner.

This is an abstract from the "A Celebration and Critical Assessment of "The Maya Scribe and His World" on its Fiftieth Anniversary" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The controversial display of “Códice Maya de México” at the Grolier Club in 1971 and its subsequent publication by Coe in “The Maya Scribe and His World” opens debate regarding archaeologists’ involvement with unprovenienced objects. The sudden appearance of the previously unknown...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Mikayla Roderick.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Hidden In The Hollinger: What We Can Learn From Archeological Legacy Collections In The National Park Service", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Hopewell Furnace National Historic Site (hereafter Hopewell Furnace) is an iconic representation of the early American industrial landscape, nestled in the picturesque rolling hills of Pennsylvania. Operational between 1771 and 1883, the Hopewell Furnace iron...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Erin Baxter. Steve Nash. Michele Koons. Deborah Huntley.

This is an abstract from the "Emerging Voices in Mogollon Archaeology" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Emily Haury wrote, “[Mogollon studies are] . . . a currently confused state of affairs. Perhaps in another half century [it] will have reached a state of broad acceptability and equilibrium” (1983:xix). Forty years into the prognostication, have we made inroads? This paper will explore the Denver Museum of Nature & Science’s efforts toward that...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Hannah Rucinski. Georgia Abrams. Tamira Brennan.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In 2022, the Illinois State Archaeological Survey’s Curation Section undertook the monumental task of moving its ~24,000 ft3 Illinois Department of Transportation collections to a larger, modified-to-suit facility. These collections include some of the most significant projects carried out in Illinois. This paper addresses our methods for assessing the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Georgia Abrams. Hannah Rucinski. Tamira Brennan.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. As a result of moving its ~24,000 ft3 Illinois Department of Transportation (IDOT) collections to a more suitable facility, the Illinois State Archaeological Survey’s Curation Section is now more capable of addressing the present and future needs of the collections and its users. This paper details the move’s success and our ongoing efforts to create more...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Margaret L. Weide.

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DOCUMENT Citation Only Zoe Milburn.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. On October 18, 2022, the Department of the Interior published the Proposed Rule (87 FR 63202) seeking to revise the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (43 CFR 10). Modifications include the introduction of clearer timelines and terminology, an emphasis on forthright and effective consultation with stakeholders, and addressing problems...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jennifer Haas. Adrienne Frie. Kevin Garski.

This is an abstract from the "In Search of Solutions: Exploring Pathways to Repatriation for NAGPRA Practitioners (Part III)" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This paper provides a case study of NAGPRA implementation within the University of Wisconsin System focusing on two institutions: the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh. Both institutions have long-standing programs of Midwest archaeology, within their...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Andrea Bridges.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Since the passing of NAGPRA in 1990, a potential new sub-field of jobs has emerged for bioarchaeologists and archaeologists who are invested in the repatriation process of Indigenous ancestral remains and sacred belongings. It has been 32 years since the law was passed, and NAGPRA job vacancies at federally funded institutions are still widely prevalent...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Basil Stewart.

This is an abstract from the "In Search of Solutions: Exploring Pathways to Repatriation for NAGPRA Practitioners (Part IV): NAGPRA in Policy, Protocol, and Practice" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. NAGPRA practice entails working with death. This occurs when practitioners are engaging with the Dead, the circumstances of their occurrence in collections, and the wider scope of systemic violence that prompted the need for NAGPRA. NAGPRA practice is a...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Joseph Lindler. Savannah Bornheim. Jordan Jeffreys. Greta Napotnik. Nina Schreiner.

This is an abstract from the "In Search of Solutions: Exploring Pathways to Repatriation for NAGPRA Practitioners (Part IV): NAGPRA in Policy, Protocol, and Practice" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Thirty years beyond enactment of the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), there is still much to be done. The growing curation crisis and renewed efforts by Tribal Nations and archaeologists at the South Carolina Institute of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Mary Burdette.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Museums as institutions have a storied history regarding the presentation of Native American cultures and histories to the public. Much has been done to address this issue, although the topic remains difficult to explain succinctly to those without prior knowledge. Often, the interpretation of artifacts is oversimplified and leads to confusion or...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Amy Gusick. Nakia Zavalla. Wendy Teeter. Amber Lincoln.

This is an abstract from the "In Search of Solutions: Exploring Pathways to Repatriation for NAGPRA Practitioners (Part I)" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In California, there are approximately 109 federally recognized tribes and at least 55 tribes not recognized by the federal government—the most of any state in the United States. Most, if not all, of these tribes have been displaced by the colonial occupation that ushered in the California...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Lauren K. McMillan. D. Brad Hatch.

This is an abstract from the "Archaeologies of Contact and Colonialism" session, at the 2019 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Excavated in the 1970s by Vivienne Mitchell, a crew of volunteers, and avocational archaeologists from the Archeological Society of Virginia, the Nomini Plantation (44WM12) midden assemblage represents an extraordinary collection of mid- to late-seventeenth-century material culture. However, a full analysis and report were never completed, due...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Nicolette Meister.

This is an abstract from the "In Search of Solutions: Exploring Pathways to Repatriation for NAGPRA Practitioners (Part III)" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Culturally informed stewardship takes a holistic and culturally inclusive approach to the preservation, access, and use of cultural items, records, and images. It acknowledges that curation and care are political acts and that the stewards of cultural collections must do more than simply...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Viola Koenig.

This is an abstract from the "Bringing the Past to Life, Part 2: Papers in Honor of John M. D. Pohl" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Can we compare the power, decline, and survival of Mesoamerican sociopolitical and religious systems with contemporary academic schools? Are there characteristic relationships between researchers and research subjects? Does this apply at least to the Mixteca-Puebla and Oaxaca regions? In other words, what do the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Steve A Santucci.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Revisiting Revolutionary America" , at the 2021 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Not just your average grandparents’ attic full of stuff: Morristown National Historical Parks 87 years of archaeological finds! Morristown National Historical Park was the first of its kind in the National Park System. Since its beginnings archaeological digs have occurred in all most every decade. The various sites that make up this National...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Elizabeth S. Pena.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "“Historical Archaeology with Canon on the Side, Please”: In Honor of Mary C. Beaudry (1950-2020)" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In 1868, a Presbyterian minister from upstate New York traveled to the “Holy Land,” where he acquired some 28 objects. These objects became a collection, and individual items became compound objects when linked to meaning-making Biblical texts. Since the pilgrim box traveled so...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Joseph M. Bagley.

The City of Boston Archaeology Laboratory contains nearly two-dozen archaeological assemblages totaling 2,000 boxes and well over 1,000,000 artifacts.  The vast majority of these collections were excavated between 1975 and 1995, which poses a monumental challenge of re-cataloging, re-organizing, and re-analyzing collections that have defined the early history of Northeast historical archaeology.  These collections also represent a great opportunity for students and researchers to examine...

DOCUMENT Citation Only McKenzie Alford. Douglas Mitchell.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Digital databases are critical to archaeological data management, but our increasing use of them since the 1980s means that some of them have become artifacts in themselves. Cultural resource management (CRM) firms in particular rely on different databases to document mortuary features and associated funerary objects, but as many CRM collections have...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Allison J.M. McGovern.

This paper highlights the value of existing museum and contract archaeology collections to new directions in archaeological research. Renewed attention to "old" data sets serves to decolonize archaeology and to challenge existing narratives with new questions. The collections discussed in this paper all come from eastern Long Island, New York. I draw attention to how narratives of Native American cultural loss and disappearance are constructed locally through archaeological heritage, and I...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Thomas E. Beaman Jr..

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Boxed but not Forgotten Redux or: The Importance and Usefulness of Exploring Old or Forgotten Collections" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Between 1958 and 1968, archaeological pioneer Stanley South excavated a total of 13 colonial era primary households and associated structures at the ruins of 18th century Brunswick Town.   Catalogs of the hundred thousands of artifacts South completed, and the remainder...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Lauren D. Bussiere.

Housing more than 15 million artifacts from over 8,000 archaeological sites, the Texas Archeological Research Laboratory at the University of Texas at Austin has a significant need for high-functioning collections tracking systems. As part of our institutional digitization strategy, TARL has begun implementing a system of bar codes for collections, with the goal of facilitating artifact retrieval and replacement as our collections are used for research, education, and public outreach. The system...