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3,701-3,725 (3,755 Records)
The following is the third and last report of archaeological salvage in the Mississinewa and Salamonie reservoirs, Corps of Engineers, flood control projects on major tributaries of the Wabash River in northeastern Indiana, and concerns work undertaken from August 1, 1963, to August 20, 1963. Work continued at this site and the contextual situation reported previously continued (see July 1-30 report, page 5). Summarizing, a thin veneer of Late Woodland material cohered the site and a heavy...
Time for a Reboot: Some Unexpected Benefits from the Covid-19 Pandemic Closure at the New York State Museum (2021)
This is an abstract from the session entitled "Collections Management in the Age of COVID-19" , at the 2021 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. New York City, Westchester County, and other downstate areas were devastated by the coronavirus pandemic during March and April of 2020. The New York State government took necessary, responsible, and decisive measures to control the spread of the virus, flatten the curve, and save lives. Businesses and state agencies closed to...
Tishomingo County Type Collection N.D.
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), Mobile District archaeological collections were sent to the Veterans Curation Program’s (VCP) Augusta laboratory in April of 2014. The Augusta VCP laboratory is a USACE, St. Louis District’s Mandatory Center of Expertise for the Curation and Management of Archaeological Collections program, which was staffed through New South Associates, Inc., an archaeological contract firm located in Stone Mountain, Georgia between April of 2014 and April of 2015. Between...
Township and Range Map, Salamonie Reservoir Maps N.D (2012)
This resource contains a township and range map of the Salamonie Reservoir, Indiana, printed in February 1981. This map is part of the Salamonie Reservoir Maps N.D collection that consists of oversized maps of the Salamonie Reservoir within the Huntington and Wabash Counties, Indiana. The collection was received without any association to a particular investigation. The date of this image was not recorded. This is likely due to the documents’ large size and cartographic contents.
Transfer Form, Blossom Point Site, 2000.029_0002 (1998)
This document certifies that all artifacts and site records derived from excavations by Kise, Franks, and Straw, Inc., and maintained in the curation facility of the University of Delaware Center for Archaeological Research, at the Blossom Point Site (18CH216) have been transferred to Tetra Tech, Inc. as per instructions in a letter from Clara Bennett.
Tyrone Mims Arbitrary (1BR?) 1988
The only information present with the Tyrone Mims Arbitrary (1BR?) 1988 investigation was the information written on the bags and the paper tags that arrived with the collection. No report was present for this collection and as a result who Tyrone Mims is, or was, has not been established. It is highly likely that Tyrone Mims was a local man residing around the Walter F. George Lake property and in August of 1988 collected a group of prehistoric ceramics from a wildlife refuge in Barbour County,...
U.S. Army Research Laboratory Cultural Resources Management Plan, BPI_0505 (1993)
The Cultural Resource Management Plan (CRMP) presented here provides guidelines and procedures which will enable the U.S. Army Research Laboratory (ARL) to meet its legal responsibilities for theidentification, evaluation, and treatment of cultural resource properties under its jurisdiction. This document is designed to be of use to multiple audiences who are concerned with the management or preservation of the cultural resources contained within the limits of the U.S. Army Research Laboratory...
Uniontown, Kentucky N.D.
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), Louisville District archaeological collections were sent to the Veterans Curation Project’s (VCP) St. Louis laboratory in the fall of 2009. The VCP St. Louis laboratory was established by USACE, St. Louis District’s Mandatory Center of Expertise for the Curation and Management of Archaeological Collections using American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 funds and staffed through Brockington and Associates, Inc. Human skeletal remains (HSR) were removed...
Upper Yazoo Project 3A-2
The first step in the rehousing process is to obtain copies of cultural resource reports, artifact catalog sheets, and field notes pertaining to the collections from the St. Louis District archivist processing the document collection. The analytical techniques employed by each organization to recover and process the collections were reviewed to gain familiarity with the archaeological work that had been conducted on the sites. Archival material sent along with this investigative effort included...
Upper Yazoo Project-1 From SRM 75.6 to 107.8
The first step in the rehousing process is to obtain copies of cultural resource reports, artifact catalog sheets, and field notes pertaining to the collections from the St. Louis District archivist processing the archival collection. The analytical techniques employed by each organization to recover and process the collections were reviewed to gain familiarity with the previous archaeological work that had been conducted on the sites. The documentation for this investigative effort included the...
US Army Electronics Research and Development Command Brochure (ERADCOM), 2000.027_0015 (1979)
Brochure from the US Army Electronics Research and Development Command explaining the broad mission areas of the US Army.
US Army Materiel Development and Readiness Command Installation Environmental Impact Assessment (1980)
This document is prepared in compliance with Army Regulation (AR) 200-1 to identify the environmental impacts involved in the total mission activities of the Harry Diamond Laboratories (HDL), including all research, development and testing activities and the various missions support activities which take place at the HDL installations listed under A.1.b. (1).
US Army Research Laboratory, Privatization of Utilities on the Adelphi Laboratory Center, Adelphi, Maryland, Environmental Assessment (2000)
Department of Defense (DoD) policy, as outlined in Defense Reform Initiative Directive #49, mandates the privatization of Government-owned utility systems in situations where the transfer of the utility systems to private, cooperative, municipal, or regional utility systems may be proven cost effective without jeopardizing the reliability of service or the security of the mission. Privatization of utility systems can be economically justified under DoD regulations if the overall privatization...
USACE National Regionalization Effort: Recovering the Bygone Collections (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. Existing collections have long been the forgotten byproducts of archaeological research. Federal collections were generally analyzed and then delivered to repositories for long-term curation, where they remained, overlooked, “in perpetuity”. For decades, curation-minded...
Wabash County Excavation N.D.
The Veterans Curation Program utilizes the standard archival practice of unique naming of collections. The purpose of this practice is to avoid redundant and confusing collection names commonly found with archaeological investigations. Therefore, this collection is referred to as “Wabash County Excavation N.D.” This name is consistent throughout the finding aid, the file folder, and the box labels. The extent of this collection is a quarter of a linear inch. The Glenn A. Black Laboratory of...
Wabash County Survey N.D.
The Veterans Curation Program utilizes the standard archival practice of unique naming of collections. The purpose of this practice is to avoid redundant and confusing collection names commonly found with archaeological investigations. Therefore, this collection is referred to as “Wabash County Survey N.D.” This name is consistent throughout the finding aid, the file folder, and the box labels. The extent of this collection is a quarter of a linear inch. The Glenn A. Black Laboratory of...
Wabash Floodplain Archaeological Survey N.D.
The Veterans Curation Program utilizes the standard archival practice of unique naming of collections. The purpose of this practice is to avoid redundant and confusing collection names commonly found with archaeological investigations. Therefore, this collection is referred to as “Wabash Floodplain Archaeological Survey N.D.” This name is consistent throughout the finding aid, the file folder, and the box labels. The extent of this collection is a quarter (0.25) of a linear inch. The Wabash...
Wabash Grant Huntington County (12HU1299-12HU1315) 2008
Normally, the VCP only processes USACE collections. The artifacts for Wabash Grant Huntington County (12HU1299–12HU1315) 2008 were originally thought to be USACE owned. The artifacts were processed at the VCP. Later communications between Ball State University collections manager, Christine Keller, Louisville District archaeologist, Jan Marie Hemberger, and MCX CMAC collections manager, Cathy Van Arsdale confirmed that this investigation was not owned by USACE. The investigation was related and...
Walter F. George River Basin Survey 1960-1971
This collection is referred to as the “Walter F. George River Basin Survey 1960-1971 investigation.” This name is consistent throughout the finding aid, the file folders, and the box labels. The extent of this collection is a quarter (0.25) of a linear inch. The majority of the documents from this collection date from 1960 to 1971, which explains the date range in the investigation name. However, there is one document that has a date range from 1960 to 1976, which is an oversized map that...
Walter F. George River Basin Survey 1960-1971, Archival Photograph, 0118-0019 (1968)
Black and white print, aerial view of sites in the Eufaula National Wildlife Refuge; November 1968, during the Walter F. George River Basin Survey 1960-1971 archaeological investigation in the Walter F. George River Basin area, in Barbour County, Alabama and Georgia.
Walter F. George Sites 1957-1962
The Veterans Curation Program utilizes the standard archival practice of unique naming of collections. The purpose of this practice is to avoid redundant and confusing collection names commonly found with archaeological investigations. Therefore, this collection is referred to as "Walter F. George Sites 1957-1962.” This name is consistent throughout the finding aid, the file folders, and the box labels. The extent of this collection is six (6) linear inches. The Walter F. George Sites 1957-1962...
Walter F. George Sites 1957-1962, Archival Photograph, 0037-0136 (2012)
Photograph of Six Lithics during the Walter F. George Sites 1957-1962 archaeological investigation in the Chattahoochee River area, in Barbour County and Stewart County, Alabama and Georgia.
Walter F. George Sites 1957-1962, Archival Photograph, 0037-0137 (2012)
Photograph of Ceramic Effigy Fragment during the Walter F. George Sites 1957-1962 archaeological investigation in the Chattahoochee River area, in Barbour County and Stewart County, Alabama and Georgia.
Walter F. George Sites 1957-1962, Archival Photograph, 0037-0138 (2012)
Photograph of Two Lithics, Photograph Cut, during the Walter F. George Sites 1957-1962 archaeological investigation in the Chattahoochee River area, in Barbour County and Stewart County, Alabama and Georgia.
Walter F. George Sites 1957-1962, Archival Photograph, 0037-0139 (2012)
Photograph of Artifacts with Numerous Artifacts Cut from Photograph, during the Walter F. George Sites 1957-1962 archaeological investigation in the Chattahoochee River area, in Barbour County and Stewart County, Alabama and Georgia.