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Research and Collections at the Virginia Museum of Natural History (2016)
The Virginia Museum of Natural History (VMNH) is an AAM accredited museum that serves as the state repository for natural history collections and occupies a purpose-built structure completed in 2007. As the state museum under the Secretary of Natural Resources, VMNH curates over 10 million archaeological, biological, paleontological, and geological specimens in trust for the citizens of the Commonwealth. The archaeology department currently curates over one million specimens. While the...
Research at the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University (2016)
Founded in 1866, the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology at Harvard University is one of the oldest museums in the world devoted to anthropology. It is dedicated to the care, study and long-term preservation of one of the largest and finest collections of cultural history found anywhere. A primary tenet of the Peabody Museum’s mission is to support the study and interpretation of its 1.2 million objects and archival collections in the service of research, teaching, publication,...
Respecting the Past, Empowering the Present: NAGPRA, College Students, and Renewed Commitment to Indigenous Heritage (2024)
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. The archaeology lab at Auburn University at Montgomery (AUM) has seen several changes over the last year regarding updates to their policies, protocols, and practices associated with their Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA)...
Respecting the Sacred Power of Indigenous Collections and Museum Staff (2024)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Indigenous cultural protocols impact consultation with museums in numerous ways. Tribal perspectives on feminine power that is most evident during menstruation can challenge non-Native ways of working with museum collections. This poster will discuss ways in which museum staff negotiate unfamiliar cultural practices during tribal consultation. Respect for...
Reviewing the 2023 Intensive NAGPRA Summer Training & Education Program (INSTEP) (2024)
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. The national need for NAGPRA and repatriation education is widely recognized in the museum and tribal communities. In July 2023, the authors co-facilitated the first Intensive NAGPRA Summer Training & Education Program (INSTEP), funded by the Wenner-Gren Foundation. This presentation reviews the...
Revisiting Past Excavations: An In-Depth Look at Feature B7 from the African Meeting House, Boston, MA (2015)
This paper analyzes a pit feature that was identified during a 1984 excavation in the basement of the African Meeting House, located in Boston's Beacon Hill neighborhood. Full excavation of the feature followed in 1986; however, complete analysis of the resulting artifact collection was not possible at the time. Predating the construction of the prominent African Meeting House, the feature is likely the privy of Augustin Raillion, a hairdresser who occupied a house at 44 Joy Street with two...
The Right to Destroy Cultural Property and NAGPRA (2025)
This is an abstract from the "Four Decades of NAGPRA, Part 1: Accomplishments and Challenges" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This submission explores the right to destroy cultural property, which is a distinctive aspect of Native American cultural sovereignty embedded in the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA). The right to destroy is an understudied but recognized property right; when property becomes distinguished as...
Rollout / Not Rollout: Maya Plate Painting and the Kerr Archive (2024)
This is an abstract from the "The Rollout Keepers: Papers on Maya Ceramic Texts, Scenes, and Styles in Honor of Justin and Barbara Kerr" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. While Justin Kerr might be best known for pioneering the rollout photographic technique specific to three-dimensional drinking cups and serving vessels, some of his still photographs of painted plates also proved pivotal to the understanding of Classic Maya religion and history....
Scanning to Share: Investigating the Use of Photogrammetry for Public Outreach (2024)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Archaeologists strive to improve the methods used to record and preserve the archaeological record for future research, interpretation, and outreach. The process of photogrammetry has improved their ability to curate and share archaeological evidence by using photos to create 3D images of excavation units, features, and artifacts. Using this technology,...
Secondary Burial on the Shelf: A New Approach to the Care of the Dead in Museums (2025)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This study examines the care of the dead in museums at a newly imagined intersection of death work and curation. Recent concerns surrounding the ethics of human remains collections have resulted in many museums reevaluating their policies on access, display, and research of human remains and burial objects. However, these often reactionary projects are...
Seventy-Five Years of Archaeology at FSU: Looking Back to Move Forward (2025)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In 1949, the Department of Anthropology was formed by Hale G. Smith who hired Charles Fairbanks in 1954. The original faculty members (Smith, Fairbanks, and John Griffin) were products of the University of Chicago Department of Anthropology Field School and closely associated with the development of academic and scientific archaeology in the United...
Shelf Life: Addressing the “Curation Crisis” through the Use and Reevaluation of Archival Collection Material (2024)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Compared to new archaeological data acquisition by traditional excavation and analysis, research and related funding associated with archival collections remains stagnant and is not proportional to the quantity of data present. This presentation highlights three cases of current research projects associated with the extant collections housed at the...
The Sporting Life: Archaeological Evidence of Pensacola’s Red Light District Customers (2015)
Archaeological studies have been conducted upon red light districts across the United States. While these studies have yielded great insight into the lives of prostitutes, relatively little has been recovered from their customers. Three collections from excavations conducted in 1975 and 2000 upon Pensacola, Florida’s red light district have also been studied, with a surprising number of artifacts associated with customers identified. This paper will provide an in-depth analysis of red light...
The state of the Jamestown Collection: Preparing for 2019 and the future (2020)
This is an abstract from the session entitled "Excavating the Foundations of Representative Government: A Case Study in Interdisciplinary Historical Archaeology." , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Over the past four years, Jamestown Rediscovery staff has been working towards the anniversary year of 1619 by developing research initiatives to further understand the beginnings of democracy and slavery. While this work occurred, providing support for ongoing...
Summary of the Brown Collection (1984)
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TACLing the Curation Crisis: A Curation-Based Field School in Arkansas (2025)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The continued focus of many field schools on excavation without any emphasis or discussion of the associated long-term care of the resulting collections is one of many factors contributing to the current curation crisis. With little to no focus on the responsibilities and costs associated with long-term care of collections, we are doing a disservice to...
Tails from the Animal Storerooms: Case Studies on the Uses and Limitations of Natural History Collections Using Multiproxy Approaches (2024)
This is an abstract from the "Storeroom Taphonomies: Site Formation in the Archaeological Archive" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Natural history collections (including zooarchaeological collections) provide essential information for archaeologists. They are primarily used in identifying bones and other hard tissues, and they provide references for biomolecular and isotopic studies. Biomolecular data from these collections are increasingly the...
Tales From the Front Line: Politics, Teaching, and Museum Collections (2018)
The tensions between stewardship, scholarship and access to collections often play out on a local scale, as contests for funding and resources. Cultivating support and funding for the long-term needs of a museum or repository is a fight for recognition of their value, and takes place in the corridors of power and among people who serve a bigger cause.Aligning with university strategic plans and policies has limited traction unless we do the work and demonstrate how collections are of central...
Taphonomy and the Death Course: Materializing Value in an Anatomical Collection (2024)
This is an abstract from the "Storeroom Taphonomies: Site Formation in the Archaeological Archive" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Huntington Anatomical Collection, part of the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History biological anthropology collections, is comprised of just over 3,000 individuals, about 50% of whom were foreign-born immigrants. They died in New York City public institutions between 1893 and 1921 and were...
Teaching With Collections: The Power of Object-Based Pedagogies (2024)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Collection-based pedagogies present an exciting platform for active, inquiry-based learning and advancing the goals of equitable teaching. They engage interactive, critical, reflective, creative, affective, and other approaches that anchor learning and build community in the tangible, physical presence of objects. This presentation is about teaching with,...
Teasing Out The Details: Re-examining A 19th-Century Boardinghouse Site In Lowell, MA (2016)
Archaeological sites excavated under Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966 provide scholars a wealth of data at their fingertips. Due to the time and financial constraints of excavation, many collections are initially analyzed, stored in state and local repositories and forgotten. However, both academic and cultural resource management (CRM) collections are an invaluable source of new data. The re-examination of these assemblages can tease out more detailed or nuanced...
The Temple On The Hill: Reviving the Patapsco Female Institute (2022)
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. The Patapsco Female Institute (18HO143) in Ellicott City, Maryland, once stood as a beacon for female education throughout the nineteenth century. By the late 1960s, the “temple on the Hill” had fallen into complete ruin, and Howard County purchased the property in the...
Thinking Outside the Hollinger Box: Bringing Northeast Region Archeology Collections to the Public (2016)
Since the inception of the Northeast Museum Services Center’s archeology program in 2003, we have consistently strived to bring NPS archeology collections into the public eye. Our commitment to public outreach encompasses a variety of efforts through which we hope to reach a variety of people. We maintain a facebook page and a blog though which we offer articles on specific artifacts, site histories, and archeological preservation. Our social media program continues to attract new readers,...
This Is the Way: Moving Toward Best Practices in Collection and Data Submission to Archaeological Repositories (2023)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Archaeological repositories curate artifacts and associated documentation for state, tribal and federal agencies. In carrying out their legally mandated duties, each repository faces unique challenges, but common to all is the well-documented, multifaceted national curation crisis. The Arizona State Museum (ASM) is no exception, with personnel working to...