USACE (MCX-CMAC) - Archaeological Curation-Needs Assessments
This collection contains a series of reports, Archaeological Curation-Needs Assessments, which resulted from assessment studies conducted on archaeological collections located on and recovered from Federal lands and government installations, and stored at these installations and/or in associated repositories. As mandated by Federal law, these archaeological materials and their associated records must be curated in perpetuity.
The purpose of these assessment studies was to determine the current state of these collections and to make recommendations for bringing them into compliance. This series of technical reports was prepared and published by the US Army Corps of Engineers Mandatory Center of Expertise for the Curation and Management of Archaeological Collections, St. Louis District.
Site Name Keywords
Point Hope, Alaska - Tigara •
St. Lawrence Island, Alaska - Kukulik •
Koyukuk Drainage, Alaska - Lake Creek •
Koyukuk Drainage, Alaska - Kayak •
Koyukuk Drainage, Alaska - Okak •
Norutak Lake, Alaska - Norutak 1 •
Norutak Lake, Alaska - Norutak 2 •
Norutak Lake, Alaska - Norutak 3 •
Norutak Lake, Alaska - Norutak 4 •
Norutak Lake, Alaska - Norutak 5
Site Type Keywords
Funerary and Burial Structures or Features
Other Keywords
Walker Lake •
Misheguk Mountain •
Howard Pass •
Killik River •
Chandler Lake •
Ikpikpuk River •
Umiat •
Forty Mile River •
Healy River
Culture Keywords
Mogollon
Investigation Types
Collections Research •
Heritage Management •
Architectural Survey
Material Types
Human Remains •
Ceramic •
Fauna •
Glass •
Metal •
Chipped Stone •
Ground Stone •
Shell •
Wood •
Textile
Temporal Keywords
Fort Irwin, CA •
Edwards AFB, CA •
Twentynine Palms MCAGCC, CA •
NAS North Island, CA
Geographic Keywords
North America (Continent) •
USA (Country) •
United States of America (Country) •
Idaho (State / Territory) •
Washington (State / Territory) •
Oregon (State / Territory) •
Utah (State / Territory) •
Nevada (State / Territory) •
Nebraska (State / Territory) •
Kansas (State / Territory)
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An Archaelological Curation-Needs Assessment for the Bureau of Indian Affairs, Phase II (1999)
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At the request of the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA), Washington, D.C., the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Mandatory Center of Expertise for the Curation and Management of Archaeological Collections (MCX-CMAC), located at the St. Louis District, conducted a survey of archaeological collections and associated documentation generated from archaeological investigations conducted within the boundaries of Indian reservations located in Nebraska, North Dakota, and South Dakota. Site visits were...
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Archaeological Curation-Needs Assessment for Army National Guard Collections in the Western United States (2000)
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Federal archaeological collections are a non-renewable national resource, a legacy to the prehistoric and historic events that have shaped the nation. The American public is the owner of these materials and documentation, and as such, it is incumbent upon the National Guard Bureau to uphold the laws and regulations set forth by Congress for their proper use and care in perpetuity. Unfortunately, for the last 50 or more years, curation of these materials has been insufficient and/or ignored....
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An Archaeological Curation-Needs Assessment for Fort Bliss, Texas (1996)
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In November 1994, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Mandatory Center of Expertise for the Curation and Management of Archaeological Collections (MCX), St. Louis District, conducted a curation-needs assessment of archaeological collections and associated documentation generated from investigations performed on Fort Bliss, Texas. Using standardized protocols and procedures, personnel from the MCX reviewed approximately 382 square feet of prehistoric and historic artifacts and 314 linear feet of...
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An Archaeological Curation-Needs Assessment For Fort Irwin, Naval Air Station, North Island, Edwards Air Force Base, Marine Corps Air-Ground Combat Center, Twentynine Palms (1997)
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From July 22, 1992, to October 19, 1992, and September 16-20, 1993 the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Technical Center of Expertise in Archaeological Curation and Collections Management (now a Mandatory Center of Expertise) conducted an inspection and of all archaeological materials and associated records in the care of NAS North Island, CA, Edwards Air Force Base, CA, Fort Irwin, CA, and MCAGCC Twentynine Palms, CA. These inspections produced evidence documenting widespread deterioration and...
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An Archaeological Curation-Needs Assessment for Fort Riley, Kansas (1996)
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At the request of Fort Riley, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Mandatory Center of Expertise for the Curation and Management of Archaeological Collections (MCX). St. Louis District conducted a survey and assessment of archaeological materials and associated documentation generated from archaeological investigations at Fort Riley. MCX personnel assessed approximately 216 cubic feet of artifacts and 3.5 linear feet of associated documentation. Most (215 cubic feet) of the artifacts were recovered...
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An Archaeological Curation-Needs Assessment for Headquarters Air Combat Command - Volume 1 (1996)
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Between September 1993 and May 1995, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, St. Louis District's Mandatory Center of Expertise for the Curation and Management of Archaeological Collections (MCX) conducted a survey of archaeological collections and associated documentation generated from archaeological investigations conducted on 42 U.S. Air Force, Air Combat Command (ACC) installations. This initial volume addressed collections from the following installations: Avon Park Air Force Range, Florida;...
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An Archaeological Curation-Needs Assessment for Headquarters Air Combat Command - Volume 2 (1997)
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Between October 1995 and January 1996, the US Army Corps of Engineers St. Louis District, Mandatory Center of Expertise for the Curation and Management of Archaeological Collections conducted a survey of achaeological collections and associated documentation generated from archaeological investigations conducted on 20 US Air Force, Air Combat Command (ACC) installations. This volume addresses collections from the following installations: Little Rock Air Force base and Black Jack Air Force...
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An Archaeological Curation-Needs Assessment for the Bureau of Indian Affairs (1999)
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At the request of the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA), Washington, D.C., the US Army Corps of Engineers Mandatory Center of Expertise for the Curation and Management of Archaeological Collections (MCX-CMAC), located at the St. Louis District, conducted a survey of archaeological collections and associated documentation generated from archaeological investigations conducted within the boundaries of Indian reservations located in Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Washington, and Wyoming. Site visits were...
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An Archaeological Curation-Needs Assessment for the Bureau of Indian Affairs, Phase III (2002)
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At the request of the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA), Washington, D.C., the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, St. Louis District (SLD), conducted a survey of archaeological collections and associated documentation generated from archaeological investigations conducted within the boundaries of Indian reservations located in Arizona, California, Nevada, and Utah. Site visits and mail surveys were conducted during 2001-2002 to assess the archaeological collections. In the aforementioned states, BIA is...
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An Archaeological Curation-Needs Assessment for the Legacy Resource Management Program: California and Washington Regions (1995)
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Between July and October 1993 the St. Louis District has identified 493.4 cubic feet of archaeological materials and 67.8 linear feet of associated records from four military installations in the western United States. Collections were located at a total of eleven facilities and at least 50% of all the collections require complete rehabilitation on order to comply with 36 CFR Part 79.
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An Archaeological Curation-Needs Assessment for the Legacy Resource Management Program: Idaho, Maryland, Montana, Virginia and Wyoming Regions (1999)
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At the request of the Legacy Resource Management Program, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Mandatory Center of Expertise for the Curation and Management of Archaeological Collections (MCX-CMAC), located at the St. Louis District, conducted a survey of archaeological collections and associated documentation generated from archaeological investigations conducted within the boundaries of military installations located in the states of Idaho, Maryland, Montana, Virginia, and Wyoming, which is the...
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An Archaeological Curation-Needs Assessment for the U.S. Navy, Engineering Field Activity, Chesapeake Division (1999)
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At the direction of Headquarters, Naval Facilities Engineering Command, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, St. Louis District conducted a survey, during the period February 1995 to September 1996, of archaeological collections recovered from eight U.S. Navy Engineering Field Activity, Chesapeake Division, facilities. Specifically, the research focused on properties In Maryland (U.S. Naval Academy; Naval Training Facility, Bainbridge; Naval Surface Warfare Center, Carderock Division; Naval...
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An Archaeological Curation-Needs Assessment for the US Army Corps of Engineers, Mobile District (1994)
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From the summer of 1992 to 1993, the US Army Corps of Engineers St. Louis District, Mandatory Center of Expertise for the Curation and Management of Archaeological Collections (MCX) evaluated the archaeological collections for a curation-needs assessment of Mobile District, Alabama. Eleven facilities, encompassing 16 separate repositories, were evaluated in the course of the curation-needs assessment—Mississippi State University, the University of Alabama, Auburn University, the Columbus Museum,...
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An Archaeological Curation-Needs Assessment for the US Navy, Atlantic Division, Naval Facilities Engineering Command (1999)
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At the request of the U.S. Navy Atlantic Division, Naval Facilities Engineering Command (LANTDIV), the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Mandatory Center of Expertise for the Curation and Management of Archaeological Collections (MCX-CMAC), located at the St. Louis District, conducted a survey of archaeological collections and associated documentation generated from archaeological investigations conducted within the boundaries of LANTDIV facilities located in North Carolina, Puerto Rico, Virginia,...
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An Archaeological Curation-Needs Assessment for Wright-Patterson Air Force Base (1996)
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Archaeological materials recovered from Wright-Paterson Air Force Base were examined by personnel from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, St. Louis District during March 1996. These collections are held at the U.S. Army Construction and Engineering Research Laboratory in Champaign, Illinois, and the Great Lakes Archaeological Research Center in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. In total, these collections comprise approximately 12 ft³ of artifacts and less than 1.4 linear feet of associated documentation....
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An Archaeological Curation-Needs Assessment of Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida (1996)
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In late 1993 and early 1994, the US Army Corps of Engineers St. Louis District, assisted Patrick Air force Base by conducting a Section 6 Summary, as required by Public Law 101-601 (the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act), and a survey of archaeological collections and associated documentation recovered from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. Three facilities-Cape Canaveral Air Force Station: New South Associates, Stone Mountain Georgia; and the Florida Division of Historic...
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An Archaeological Curation-Needs Assessment of Military Installations in Selected Eastern States, Volume 1 (2000)
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Between May 1997 and September 1999 personnel from the U.S. Army Engineer District, St. Louis conducted curation needs assessments at all active military installations in Alabama, Arkansas, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode island, South Carolina, Tennessee, Vermont, West Virginia, and Wisconsin. Over 6,000 ft3...
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An Archaeological Curation-Needs Assessment of Military Installations in Selected Eastern States, Volume 2 (2000)
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Between May 1997 and September 1999 personnel from the U.S. Army Engineer District, St. Louis conducted curation needs assessments at all active military installations in Alabama, Arkansas, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Tennessee, Vermont, West Virginia, and Wisconsin. Over 6,000 ft3...
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An Archaeological Curation-Needs Assessment of Military Installations in Selected Western States, Volume 1 (2000)
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Between April 1996 and July 1997 personnel from the U.S. Army Engineer District, St. Louis conducted curation needs assessments at all active military installations in Alaska, Arizona, Colorado, Hawaii, Kansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, Nevada, New Mexico, Texas, Utah, and the District of Columbia. Over 5,000 ft3 of artifacts and over 700 linear feet of associated documentation from archaeological projects conducted on these installations were examined during the course of the fieldwork. This...
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An Archaeological Curation-Needs Assessment of Military Installations in Selected Western States, Volume 2 (2000)
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Between April 1996 and July 1997 personnel from the U.S. Army Engineer District, St. Louis conducted curation needs assessments at all active military installations in Alaska, Arizona, Colorado, Hawaii, Kansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, Nevada, New Mexico, Texas, Utah, and the District of Columbia. Over 5,000 ft3 of artifacts and over 700 linear feet of associated documentation from archaeological projects conducted on these installations were examined during the course of the fieldwork. This...
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An Archaeological Curation-Needs Assessment of Museum Property for the Bureau of Reclamation, Great Plains Region (2003)
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At the request of the Bureau of Reclamation, Great Plains Region, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, S t Louis District (SLD), conducted a survey of museum property (archaeological collections and associated documentation) generated from archaeological Investigations conducted on Reclamation property in Colorado, Kansas, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Texas, and Wyoming. Sixteen repositories In nine states curate approximately 2709.37 ft3 of artifacts and 217.79 linear...
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Archaeological Curation-Needs Assessments for Fort Sill, Oklahoma, Fort Gordon, Georgia, Vandenberg Air Force Base, California, Camp Pendleton Marine Corps Base, California, and Naval Air Weapons Station, China Lake, California (1993)
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This resource contains a report on an assessment of the status of archaeological collections at four installations, representing the major branches of the armed services, that were selected to participate in the curation needs-assessment study. The selected installations were Camp Pendleton Marine Corps Base, California; Fort Sill, Oklahoma (Army); Vandenberg Air Force Base, California; and the Naval Air Weapons Station, China Lake, California. Fort Gordon, Georgia, was selected initially as the...
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An Archaeological-Needs Assessment for the US Air Force, Air Mobility Command (1995)
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During the fall of 1993, the US Army Corps of Engineers, St. Louis District, Mandatory Center of Expertise for the Curation and Management of Archaeological Collections (MCX) conducted a survey of archaeological collections and associated documentation generated from archaeological investigations conducted on 13 U.S. Air Force, Air Mobility Command (AMC) installations. Only four-Charleston Air Force Base (and its sub-installation, North Auxiliary Field), South Carolina; Dover Air Force Base,...
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An Archeological Curation-Needs Assessment for the US Navy, Engineering Field Activities, West and Northwest, Naval Facilities Engineering Command (1997)
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At the request of Engineering Field Activity (EFA), West, the US Army Corps of Engineers Mandatory Center of Expertise for the Curation and Management of Archaeological Collections (MCX-CMAC), located at the St. Louis District, conducted a survey of archeological collections and associated documentation generated from archeological investigations conducted on Navy facilities within the jurisdiction of EFA West and EFA Northwest. Site visits were conducted during the period November 1993-August...
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An Assessment of Museum Property at Select National Wildlife Refuges for the US Fish and Wildlife Service (2007)
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At the request of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS), the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, St. Louis District (SLD), conducted an assessment of museum property at select National Wildlife Refuges (NWR) in the states of Alaska, Illinois, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, and North Dakota. SLD identified museum property disciplines at each NWR and provided suggestions and estimates for bringing them into compliance with 36 CFR Part 79 (Curation of Federally-Owned and Administered Archaeological...
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An Assessment of Potential Curation Facilities at the Hanford Site, Department of Energy (2000)
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In March and June 2000, St. Louis District personnel examined ten facilities that are located on the Hanford Nuclear Test Site in order to determine their potential as curation repositories for Hanford Cultural Resources. The facilities examined ranged from abandoned buildings associated with the NIKE missile complex to nuclear research reactors. All buildings would require substantial rehabilitation to comply with existing regulations for the curation and management of cultural resources (36...
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An Assessment of the Cocopah Indian Nation Museum as a Potential Repository for Yuma Proving Ground Archaeological Collections (2001)
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In January of 2001, St. Louis District personnel evaluated the Cocopah Indian Museum as a potential repository for Department of Defense archaeological collections from U.S. Army Yuma Proving Ground. The evaluation team noted that with some adjustments to the current configuration of the museum and collections storage space and the adoption and Implementation of key collections management policies, the museum should meet or exceed minimal standards set forth in 36 CFR Part 79, Curatlon of...
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Bureau of Land Management Museum Collections: Select Status Report (1998)
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In July 1994, the United States Department of the Interior, Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, St. Louis District, entered into Interagency Agreement No. 1422P852-A4-0015 for the purpose of identifying and locating collections from BLM-administered lands made under the provisions of the Antiquities Act of 1906 (P.L. 59-206) and the Archaeological Resources Protection Act (P.L. 96-95). This task was undertaken to assist BLM in compliance with provisions of the...
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Commander in Chief, U.S. Navy Pacific Fleet Archaeological Collections Management Program: A Regional Approach (2002)
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Between the spring of 1998 and the winter of 2000 personnel from the U.S. Army Engineer District, St. Louis conducted curation needs assessments and identified potential curation partners for U.S. Navy, Commander in Chief, Pacific Fleet facilities in six Navy regions: Naval Forces, Japan; Naval Forces, Korea; Naval Forces, Marianas (Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands and Guam); Navy Region, Hawaii; Navy Region, Northwest (Washington); and Navy Region, Southwest (California)....
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A Curation-Needs Assessment and Inventory of Select U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Southeast Region Archaeological Collections (1998)
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As part of the continuing archaeological assessment project for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Southeast Region, curation condition for archaeological materials and associated documentation recovered from U.S. Fish and Wildlife properties were assessed by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, St. Louis District. Six facilities in three states--Arkansas, Georgia, and South Carolina--contained 579 cubic feet of archaeological materials and 19.9 linear feet of associated documentation. All...
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A Curation-Needs Assessment at Select Facilities for the U.S. Air National Guard (2011)
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The U.S. Air National Guard (ANG) is responsible for the management of archaeological and historical resources recovered from lands that it currently manages and leases. As mandated by federal law, responsible agencies are required to ensure that all recovered archaeological materials and associated records are adequately curated. ANG worked with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Mandatory Center of Expertise for the Curation and Management of Archaeological Collections in the St. Louis District...
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A Curation-Needs Assessment of Historical Collections at Select Facilities for the US Department of Veterans Affairs (2010)
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At the request of the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, St. Louis District, Mandatory Center of Expertise for the Curation and Management of Archaeological Collections (MCX), conducted a pilot study to assist the VA in determining the volume of its collections and current collections needs nationwide and the tasks required to bring them into compliance with 36 CFR Part 79 (Curation of Federally-Owned and Administered Archaeological Collections)....
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A Curation-Needs Assessment of Select Bureau of Land Management Archaeological Collections (1999)
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The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Is responsible for the management of archaeological and historical resources that are located on and recovered from BLM-owned or maintained lands. These responsibilities Include the proper curatlon of recovered archaeological materials and associated documents. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, St. Louis (SLD), was asked to assist the BLM in evaluating the curatlon of BLM collections at three facilities: Billings Curatlon Center, Billings, Montana, the Anasazl...
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Inventory and Analysis of Select Archaeological Collections from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Southeast Region (1996)
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Archaeological materials recovered from U.S. Fish and Wildlife properties are curated at a number of facilities in the nine states and two territories (Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands) that encompass the Southeast Region. As part of the continuing archaeological assessment project for the Southeast Region, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, St. Louis District, assessed the curation conditions at five facilities in three states— Alabama, Arkansas, and Tennessee. These five facilities are...
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A Phase I Assessment of Archaeological Collections from the USACE Savannah District (1997)
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Between September 1994 and January 1995, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, St. Louis District's Mandatory Center of Expertise for the Curation and Management of Archaeological Collections (MCX-CMAC) performed research to address the status of the Savannah District's archaeological collections from projects conducted, on fee-title land at Hartwell, Russell, and J. Strom Thurmond lakes in Georgia and South Carolina. The MCX-CMAC conducted a literature and site record review of all work conducted...
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A Pilot Examination for Curation Partnership Implementation for the Department of Defense (2002)
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Since the 1906 Antiquities Act, several major laws and regulations have directed the land-managing agencies of the federal government to appropriately house and preserve archaeological materials recovered from federal lands or by federally-funded projects for long-term public benefit. The Department of Defense armed services—including the U.S. Army, U.S. Navy and Marines, and the U.S. Air Force—manage a significant number of archaeological collections and are therefore subject to these laws and...