Museum Collections (Other Keyword)

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Aircraft Recovery for Education: Lessons Learned by The National Naval Aviation Museum. (2019)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Nathaniel King.

This is an abstract from the "Developing Standard Methods, Public Interpretation, and Management Strategies on Submerged Military Archaeology Sites" session, at the 2019 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The mission of the National Naval Aviation Museum (NNAM), a Naval and History Heritage Command field museum, is to "select, collect, preserve and display historic artifacts relating to the history of Naval Aviation." NNAM uses a wide variety of aircraft, artifacts,...

Annual Reports of the Wayne State University Museum of Anthropology, 1958 - 1964 (1964)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Museum of Anthropology.

This resource is a citation record only, the Center for Digital Antiquity does not have a copy of this document. The information in this record has been migrated into tDAR from the National Archaeological Database Reports Module (NADB-R) and updated. Most NADB-R records consist of a document citation and other metadata but do not have the documents themselves uploaded. If you have a digital copy of the document and would like to have it curated in tDAR, please contact us at comments@tdar.org.

Background To Prehistory of the Yuha Desert Region (1976)

DOCUMENT Citation Only David L. Weide. James P. Barker. Harry W. Lawton. Margaret L. Weide.

Background to Prehistory of the Yuha Desert Region (1974)

DOCUMENT Full-Text Margaret L. Weide. James P. Barker. Harry W. Lawton. David L. Welde. Staff of Imperial Valley College Museum.

The Yuha inventory area as defined by the Bureau of Land Management includes two subareas. To the north it is dominated by San Felipe Creek draining out of the Lower Borrego Valley into the Salton Sink. The broad San Felipe drainage is flanked on the north by the San Felipe Hills, and on the south by the Fish Creek Mountains, the Superstition Hills and Superstition Mountain. The southern portion centers on Yuha Wash and the Yuha Basin, but includes the Coyote Mountains and the southeastern...

Belizean Jade: Why Such a Rich Periphery? (2016)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Mayya Azarova.

This paper addresses the question of the place of Belizean Maya jade artifacts within a broader Mesoamerican context. More specifically I examine the similarities between Belizean jade and other jade finds in different Maya areas. I discuss why a significant number of major jade finds have occurred in Belize while it is often considered to be on the periphery of Maya culture as well as examining the variations in the iconography of carved images on jade. I draw on evidence of recent finds and...

Bread, Apples, and Cereal Grains: Analyzing a Collection of Carbonized Food from Robenhausen, Switzerland (2019)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Ann Eberwein.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This paper presents the results of research on a collection of food from Robenhausen, a lake-dwelling site southeast of Zurich. These specimens are part of a larger collection that was recovered in the late 19th century and is housed at the Milwaukee Public Museum. The material includes thirteen bread fragments, seventy-five apple pieces, and thousands of...

Caribbean archaeological collections in European museums: an overview (2016)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Mariana Francozo.

This presentation will discuss the partial results of the research project “Caribbean Collections at European Museums: Historical Processes and Contemporary Practices”, carried out in collaboration with André Delpuech (Musée du quai Branly). The project is part of the ERC-Synergy project NEXUS1492: New World Encounters in a Globalizing World. Although there is a wealth of scientific literature on Caribbean pre-colonial art, so far there is no comprehensive catalogue or inventory of...

Carson- Stillwater Archaeological Project: Public Domain Collections (1983)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Robert L. Kelly.

Comparative Study of Archaeological and Ethnological Collections in European Museums (1962)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Henry B. Collins, Jr..

Crossing the Line: Disciplinary Boundaries, Decolonization and Museum Collections (2023)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Laurie E. Burgess.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Glass Beads: Global Artefacts, Local Perspectives", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In the museum world, an invisible but firm boundary exists between ethnographic and archaeological collections. Ethnographic objects in general, and particularly those from other regions of the globe, are an underused resource in archaeological glass bead research, particularly within the U.S. In this study, beads that adorn...

Developing Minimally Destructive Protocols for DNA Analysis of Museum Collection Bone Artifacts (2016)

DOCUMENT Full-Text Kelly Brown. Barbara Winter. Chen Shen. Dongya Yang.

Ancient DNA (aDNA) analysis has revolutionized the field of archaeology with its ability to provide unique and otherwise unattainable information about the past. However, due to the destructive nature of current aDNA techniques many museum curators are hesitant to subject their collections to this kind of analysis. This poster presents a new sampling strategy for obtaining adequate amounts of bone powder from bone artifacts for aDNA extraction, while minimizing the damage done to the valuable...

Discovering Plies in Back and Then, Just About Everywhere: Perishable Artifact Studies from the Eastern U.S. Beginning with Tennessee (2016)

DOCUMENT Citation Only William Weeks. Edward Jolie.

The Tennessee State Museum has several collections of perishable artifacts from dry rock shelters and caves on the Cumberland Plateau containing varieties of cordage, basketry, textiles, footwear, worked hide, wood, feathers and other items that appear to date between the Archaic and Mississippian periods. Preliminary analyses explore the origin, distribution, and fusion of styles that became the enduring traditions of the indigenous peoples of the American Southeast. Ethnographic and...

Don’t Call Them Fakes: Museums, Markets, And Authenticity In Peruvian Antiquities Collections (2023)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Maria Fernanda Boza Cuadros.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Global Archaeologies and Latin American Voices: Dialogues Transcending Colonizing Archaeologies", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. European ethnographic museums are riddled with Peruvian archaeological objects, many of them looted, gathered, commercialized and transported to Europe along with other plundered commodities. Among these collections, however, are plenty of artifacts of recent manufacture currently...

Engaging Tribal Relations and Tribal Collections (2017)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Alyce Sadongei.

The use of museum collections by tribal researchers began as a result of cultural and political efforts. The combined movement of cultural resurgence and political expression culminated in the passage of NAGPRA which provided entrée for a variety of tribal researchers and practitioners to engage with cultural objects and archival information. Since the passage of NAGPRA, tribal researchers have primarily been focused on the eligible categories of museum collections for repatriation. However,...

Forget Me Nots: Smaller Collections Need Archaeologists Too (2015)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Stephanie LapeyreMontrose.

From Native Americans to Spanish and European settlers, Southern California has a rich history. One town in particular, Simi Valley, incorporated in 1969, was home to several Chumash villages, part of the Santiago Pico 1795 Land Grant, and attracted European settlers. CA-VEN-346, the El Rancho Simi Adobe, was occupied during all three eras. It was a Chumash village, home to Santiago Pico, and home to European settler Robert Strathearn and family. When Robert Strathearn purchased the El Rancho...

Future Salado Research: Roosevelt Archaeology at ASU Center for Archaeology & Society Repository (2016)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Arleyn Simon. Stephen Reichardt.

Archaeological collections have vital roles in contemporary and future research activities and afford opportunities for in-depth localized studies or broad regional syntheses. The Center for Archaeology & Society Repository (formerly Archaeological Research Institute) at Arizona State University curates the Roosevelt Archaeology Projects funded by the US DOI Bureau of Reclamation in cooperation with the Tonto National Forest. These well documented large scale excavations provide research and...

Mammoth Cave Materials in Museum Collections (1974)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Patty Jo Watson.

Maverick Mountain Phase Ceramics from Point of Pines Pueblo: A Preliminary Report (2017)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Patrick Lyons. Don Burgess. Marilyn Marshall. Jaye Smith.

Emil Haury's 1958 synthesis of the Pueblo III-Pueblo IV period (A.D. 1265-1450) archaeology of Point of Pines Pueblo, in east-central Arizona, is the American Southwest's classic case study in how to reliably infer ancient migrations. Field school excavations conducted between 1946 and 1960 uncovered compelling evidence of immigrants from the Kayenta region of far northeastern Arizona and southeastern Utah. However, because the excavations at Point of Pines Pueblo have never been fully reported,...

Museums and Collections (1981)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Stephen R. James. James A. Vlasich.

Nineteenth Century Glazed Ceramics in Michigan and Elsewhere: Part III: Other Types of Evidence (1967)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Arnold R. Pilling. George L. Miller.

Perishable Weaponry from the Northern Colorado Plateau: Adding Temporal Context to Wayward Collections (2024)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Tim Riley.

This is an abstract from the "Advances in Perishable Weaponry Studies: Developing Perspectives from Dated Contexts to Experimental Analyses" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Archaeological sites in the high dry deserts of Eastern Utah have yielded remarkably preserved collections of perishable technological components of past lifeways. This includes many examples of projectile weaponry. These objects can add direct evidence to studies focused on the...

Prehistory, Ethnohistory, and History of Eastern Nevada: a Cultural Resources Summary of the Elko and Ely District (1981)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Stephen R. James.

Report on the Status of Lake Champlain Maritime Musem's New Digital Mapping Project (2019)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Patricia N. Reid.

This is an abstract from the "Technology in Terrestrial and Underwater Archaeology" session, at the 2019 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. This presentation is a report on the status of the Digital Mapping Project, a new initiative of Lake Champlain Maritime Museum. LCMM is producing a GIS-based interactive map of the Champlain Valley with layers showing archaeological and social history of the region over time. We aim to aggregate our archival and archaeological...

Repositioning Habitus as Cultural Capital in Sami Museum Collections (2017)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Natalia Magnani.

Ethnographic museum collections are frequently presented as regional culture histories, portraying a timeless native past. In the Sámi regions of Finland, institutionalized courses and individuals seek to manufacture of museum objects anew, and exhibit this present revival in concert with the past. The recreated objects are not only shown in their present living contexts but removed from museums and used at local cultural events. These new forms of representation emphasize living use and...

Revealing Pre-Columbian Bundles: Collaborative Student-Faculty Research at the Logan Museum of Anthropology, Beloit College (2016)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kylie Quave.

Recent research at the Logan Museum of Anthropology combines student and faculty expertise with archaeometric methods to reveal new information about coastal pre-Columbian Andean collections brought to the museum in the early- to mid-twentieth century. With student collaborators we scanned a possible “bird mummy” with computed tomography to reveal that there was no avian body but rather a complex suite of offerings within its cloth wrapping. They included maize cobs, shell, and other materials....