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DOCUMENT Citation Only Elena Rossoni-Notter. Olivier Notter. Abdelkader Moussous.

This is an abstract from the "Hunter-Gatherer Archaeology of Liguria: Recent Research and Insights" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Methodological research had been conducted from the late nineteenth century thanks to Albert I, Prince of Monaco. He is acknowledged across the world for his key role in Paleolithic issues and the history of science. Excavations and leading publications under his leadership bring the fruit of early experience and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kathryn MacFarland.

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. The Arizona State Museum (ASM) Repository holds collections associated with thousands of archaeological excavations that span the advent of anthropologically oriented archaeology in the American Southwest. Encoded with these collections are various approaches to excavation and data management, which...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Marla Taylor. Laura Bryant. Laura Elliff Cruz.

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. For centuries, museums and academic institutions have acquired and amassed Indigenous cultural items for their own use and benefit with minimal consideration from descendant communities. The values expressed in stewarding those collections resonate...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Gabrielle F Hunkele.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Pre-Recorded Video Presentation Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The task of curation collections recovered resulting from CRM projects can often be a costly and time-consuming endeavor. For these reasons, and along with others, many CRM firms become their own repositories, often with numerous forgotten about boxes in storage spaces or basements. This study...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Rilee Rodgers.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The "Curation Crisis" refers to problems associated with the neglect of long-term care and management of archaeological collections. U.S. repositories in charge of caring for archaeological collections are underfunded, understaffed, and overcrowded, leaving them unable to properly care for collections. Despite the magnitude of this problem, most...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Sara Pfannkuche. George Vassilatos.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Archaeological objects are frequently donated by private citizens to professional organizations. These include the legacy collections of professional or avocational archaeologists, many of which date to the period when the profession of archaeology was being formalized, and objects found in the attic of a grandparent’s house. These collections range from...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Danielle R Cathcart. Heather Olson.

As we celebrate the anniversary of the NHPA, many states are now coming to terms with the immensity of the archaeological collections gathered on their behalf over the past fifty years. While academics and professionals have become experts at minimizing the effects of development on buried and extant cultural resources through archaeological excavation, these endeavors have amassed a staggering amount of objects and information that too often languishes in deteriorating bags and boxes—poorly...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Katherine McEnroe. Sean Devlin.

This is an abstract from the "Individuals Known and Unknown: Case Studies from Two Burial Contexts at Colonial Williamsburg" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Over the last three decades, archaeological approaches to the excavation of human burials have radically shifted. These changes have demanded a large-scale reevaluation of the decision-making processes and research practices deployed not only during these excavations, but also in the approaches...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Mark Freeman. Barbara Heath.

The Curles Neck excavation, under the direction of Dan Mouer at Virginia Commonwealth University, produced a wealth of information about a significant mid-seventeenth to mid-nineteenth century site. Unfortunately the collections ended up housed in a non-archaeological repository, separate from the unordered documentation. A 2016 reassessment, undertaken by staff and students at the University of Tennessee, conducted an inventory of the physical collections; converted old digital files; digitized...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Megan Thornton.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Archaeological Research Laboratory Center (ARLC) curates archaeological collections, artifacts and archival records, from over 800 archaeological sites within a federally compliant (36 CFR 79) storage facility. Over several decades, collections management standards have changed regarding how the ARLC catalogs the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Mark Freeman. Kerry Gonzalez.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Historical Archaeology in a Digital Age (General Sessions)" , at the 2021 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In 2017 the SHA Collections and Curation Committee formed a sub-committee to collect information about archaeological repositories across the United States. This year-long survey resulted in the recordation of 102 repositories, with each state in the US having at least one respondent. The data obtained for this work...

DOCUMENT Citation Only David Rosenthal. Kerry Button.

On August 23, 2011, an earthquake centered in Louisa County, Virginia affected the nation’s capital in Washington, D.C. Measured at a magnitude of 5.8, this was the strongest quake in the area since 1944, reaching as many as 12 states and felt as far away as Canada. The quake caused damage to a number of national landmarks including the Washington Monument, the National Cathedral, and several Smithsonian buildings. The Smithsonian Institution’s Museum Support Center (MSC) in Suitland, MD, home...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jennifer Muller.

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. Acknowledgment of the educational value of pathological conditions in human cadavers prompted scholars of anatomy and anthropology to partition bodily tissues of the dissected among their colleagues. This scientific network of shared body parts, for the purpose of specialized study, segregated the divisible body into...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Amy Reid.

This is an abstract from the "The Archaeology of Eagle Nest Canyon, Texas: Papers in Honor of Jack and Wilmuth Skiles" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Skiles Collection, named for landowner Jack Skiles, consists of Indigenous, Euro-American, and Asian-American cultural material from the Lower Pecos Canyonlands Archaeological region. Beginning in the late 1930s, the Skiles Family amassed an exceptional collection of cultural material...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Tess Kelley.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Ainu are an indigenous group currently inhabiting the Japanese island of Hokkaido. Traditionally the group practiced a hunter-gatherer lifestyle incorporating plant cultivation and trade, yet forced assimilation into the Japanese state in 1869 significantly altered this way of life. The Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology of Harvard University...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Richard G. Schaefer. Meta F. Janowitz.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "More than Pots and Pipes: New Netherland and a World Made by Trade" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The New York City Archaeological Repository houses artifacts from sites excavated within the city under the auspices of the Landmarks Preservation Commission, including those from the New Netherland period and the early (ca. 1664-1700) English colonial town. Many of these sites were dug in the 1980s and it’s...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Krystiana Krupa.

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. The January 2024 revisions to the implementing regulations of the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act of 1990 (NAGPRA) were a response to long-standing concerns that Federally-recognized Tribes have expressed over inadequacies in the NAGPRA compliance process. While the new regulations were undoubtedly a...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Diana Diaz.

Perceptions of southern California’s San Fernando Valley have long pertained to its relationship to adjacent Los Angeles, with the region over time characterized as either agricultural hinterland or faceless suburbia. Such stereotypes overlook the numerous historical associations and resources of the region, in the process subverting the identities and "communitas" of valley residents. In 2016 courses taught in the Department of Anthropology at California State University-Northridge (CSUN) have...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Megan Schwalenberg.

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 Veterans Curation Program (VCP) is a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) funded program with a dual mission to rehabilitate USACE administered artifact and document collections and provide temporary employment and vocational training to veterans....

DOCUMENT Citation Only Travis Chai Andrade.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In 2022, 34.6% of US high schoolers took an AP test, US History being among the most popular subjects. Yet, despite heightened sensitivity toward indigenous cultures and their histories, the AP Historical curriculum still displays shortcomings in this regard. Moreover, in college, many students encounter indigenous cultures through one discipline only:...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Sydney Berenson.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This work aspires to contribute to the ongoing discourse on cultural heritage and enhance practices surrounding the restitution of significant artifacts by focusing on Stela 34, a pivotal monument from El Perú-Waka’ (henceforth Waka’). Attention is paid to its historical journey and the ethical implications of its acquisition and repatriation....

DOCUMENT Citation Only Ellie Minette.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Pensacola has been invested in public archaeology since the 1980s when Dr. Judith Bense began the Hawkshaw Project. Since then, archaeologists have continued to prioritize and promote public engagement, education, and stewardship through books, exhibitions, presentations, field trips, and a variety of other methods. This research examines the evolution of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Elizabeth Reed.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Woodruff Cave, located near Lake Waramaug in New Preston, Connecticut, is a multi-component Native American site that exhibits exceptional preservation of faunal remains. Researchers with the Institute for American Indian Studies (IAIS) have been reanalyzing this collection since 2021 to shed new light on the assemblage and reassess previous...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Joanne Gallagher.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Museum studies and Archaeology have had an interrelationship in pursuits of knowledge and perceptions of visitors. Different interpretations of Indigenous peoples have also evolved in these two fields, and within the last few decades these representations have affected Indigenous Peoples, Museum institutions and visitors. For museum studies, there has been...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Christopher S. Peebles.

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