USACE (MCX-CMAC) - Other Reports

Part of: US Army Corps of Engineers (Mandatory Center of Expertise for the Curation and Management of Archaeological Collections)

Other reports prepared by the US Army Corps of Engineers St. Louis District Mandatory Center of Expertise for the Curation and Management of Archaeological Collections, which are not part of existing series. These were reports produced for specific purposes.

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  • African Burial Ground Curation Management Plan and Recommendations (2004)
    DOCUMENT Full-Text US Army Corps of Engineers Mandatory Center of Expertise for the Curation and Management of Archaeological Collections, St. Louis District.

    GSA, Northeast and Caribbean Region, sought assistance from the US Army Corps of Engineers, St. Louis District’s Mandatory Center of Expertise for the Curation and Management of Archaeological Collections (MCX) to assist them with the long-term curation of the associated records generated from investigations conducted at the African Burial Ground (ABG) in Manhattan, New York City. During the preliminary phases for the construction of a new building, archaeologists discovered a large historic...

  • African Burial Ground Project, Protocol for Loading Wagons and Crypts (2003)
    DOCUMENT Full-Text US Army Corps of Engineers Mandatory Center of Expertise for the Curation and Management of Archaeological Collections, St. Louis District.

    This report is a detailed guide for loading and transferring artifacts and human remains from facilities, crypts, and wagons for the African Burial Ground Project.

  • Archaeological Collections Condition Assessment for Fort Benning, Georgia (1998)
    DOCUMENT Full-Text Kenneth C. Alldredge. Natalie M. Drew. Kenneth L. Shingleton.

    On 19 January 1998, the Mandatory Center of Expertise for the Curation and Management of Archaeological Collections (MCX-CMAC) was contacted by Fort Benning, Georgia, personnel requesting assistance with the physical rehabilitation of the archaeological collections, both material remains and associated documentation, for which they are responsible. Dr. Christopher E. Hamilton of Fort Benning and Ms. Natalie Drew of MCX-CMAC coordinated the evaluation of the materials at identified facilities. ...

  • Central Arizona Project Archaeological Collection Transfer Plan - Transfer from Central Arizona Project Repository (Tucson, AZ) To Huhugam Heritage Center (Chandler, AZ, vicinity) (2004)
    DOCUMENT Full-Text US Army Corps of Engineers Mandatory Center of Expertise for the Curation and Management of Archaeological Collections, St. Louis District.

    This planning and protocol document describes the activities necessary for the physical, legal, and ethical transfer of the Bureau of Reclamation’s Central Arizona project collections from the Central Arizona Project Repository in Tucson to the Gila River Indian Community’s Huhugam Heritage Center outside of Phoenix. There are over 6000 boxes of artifacts and more than 300 linear feet of archival materials stemming from this twenty-year project. Currently, Reclamation is in a direct...

  • A Cultural Overview of the Yavapai and their Relation to Yuma Proving Ground (2000)
    DOCUMENT Full-Text Roberta L. Hayworth. Lara S. Anderson.

    In 1998, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, St. Louis District was contracted by Yuma Proving Ground (YPG), Yuma Arizona, to research and write a cultural overview of the Yavapai tribe which would illustrate that they were at one time located in the region of Yuma Proving Ground. Under various laws, regulations, and policies the U.S. Army is required to consult with Native American tribes and to protect Native American sacred sites and traditional cultural properties. Consultation between YPG and...

  • Department of Defense and US Army Corps of Engineers Curation Options Project, Eastern States (2001)
    DOCUMENT Full-Text US Army Corps of Engineers Mandatory Center of Expertise for the Curation and Management of Archaeological Collections, St. Louis District.

    This report examines various options for the curation of archaeological materials that are stewarded by the Department of Defense (DoD). Archaeological materials have been generated by over 50 years of archaeological investigations required by law, and many collections have been gathered from lands held by the DoD and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE). Adequate curation of these collections is mandated by federal regulations, most importantly 36 CFR Part 79—Curation of Federally-Owned and...

  • Department of Defense and US Army Corps of Engineers Curation Options Project, Western and Mid-Atlantic States (1999)
    DOCUMENT Full-Text US Army Corps of Engineers Mandatory Center of Expertise for the Curation and Management of Archaeological Collections, St. Louis District.

    At the request of the Deputy Under Secretary of Defense (Environmental Quality) and the Headquarters, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the Corps’ St. Louis District performed a study of curation institutions in 20 western and two mid-Atlantic states. The goal of the project, called the Curation Options project, was to identify one institution in each state that has the capability and the interest to potentially partner with the federal government for the purpose of curating archaeological materials...

  • Final Report on the Rehabilitation of the Wright-Patterson Air Force Base Archaeological Collections (1998)
    DOCUMENT Full-Text US Army Corps of Engineers Mandatory Center of Expertise for the Curation and Management of Archaeological Collections, St. Louis District.

    This report is the Appendix I, Archival Findings Aids, for the final report of the Archaeological Investigations conducted at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base by the US Army Construction Engineering Research Laboratory located in Champaign, Illinois. This report has several investigations and finding aids listed.

  • Guidelines for the Field Collection of Archaeological Materials and Standard Operating Procedures for Curation Department of Defense Archaeological Collections (1999)
    DOCUMENT Full-Text Suzanne Griset. Marc Kodack. Ken Alldredge. Dennis Danielson. Natalie M. Drew. Debra K. Loveless. Michael D. Wiant.

    We provide a review and synthesis of existing federal and non-federal guidelines for collecting archaeological field data and curating archaeological collections. Based on the review, we found a great deal of variability in existing guidelines, if at all present. Thus, using these variable guidelines, we fashioned Department of Defense (DoD) wide guidelines for collecting archaeological field data and standard operating procedures (SOPs) for curating DoD archaeological collections. The review...

  • The New York African Burial Ground Archives Project: A Report for the General Services Administration, Northeast and Caribbean Region, New York, New York (2009)
    DOCUMENT Full-Text US Army Corps of Engineers Mandatory Center of Expertise for the Curation and Management of Archaeological Collections, St. Louis District.

    In 2003, the GSA, Northeast and Caribbean Region, sought assistance from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, St. Louis District’s Mandatory Center of Expertise for the Curation and Management of Archaeological Collections (MCX) to assist with the archival processing of the associated records generated from investigations conducted at the New York African Burial Ground (ABG) in Manhattan, New York City. During the preliminary phases for the construction of a new building in 1991, archaeologists...

  • Planning and Protocol Document: Reconciliation and Transfer of African Burial Ground Site Human Remains and Associated Artifacts (2001)
    DOCUMENT Full-Text US Army Corps of Engineers Mandatory Center of Expertise for the Curation and Management of Archaeological Collections, St. Louis District.

    This planning and protocol document describes the reconciliation and transfer of over 400 burials and associated artifacts excavated from an eighteenth-century African Burial Ground (ABG) in lower Manhattan in 1991. After 10 years of research on these remains and materials, their reburial is imminent. Numerous federal, city, and private organizations, as well as the media, will be involved in the reconciliation of the remains and artifacts (which involves a comparison of the original inventory...

  • Preserving Vermont's Archaeological Collections - Background and Feasibility Study for a Vermont Archaeological Heritage Center (2003)
    DOCUMENT Full-Text U.S. Army Engineer District, St. Louis Curation and Archives Analysis Branch.

    In July, 2001 the Vermont Agency of Transportation (VTrans) contracted with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, St. Louis District, to assess the archaeological collections recovered in the course of federal and state funded archaeological investigations in Vermont and to assess two Vermont organizations as potential candidates for curating and managing Vermont’s archaeological collections (VTrans Contract No. 0984273; USACE Agreement No. VDOT0001). The goal of the project was to determine the...

  • Registering with the Past: A Review of the Army's Compliance with the National Historic Preservation Act (1996)
    DOCUMENT Full-Text Marc Kodack. Kristen L. Langness. Kenneth C. Alldredge. John A. Eastman. Robin P. Shtulman. Janet L. Wilzbach.

    The US Army Environmental Center (AEC) requested the assistance of the US Army Corps of Engineers Mandatory Center of Expertise for the Curation and Management of Archaeological Collections (MCX-CMAC), St. Louis District, in determining the scope of the Army's compliance with the National Historic Preservation Act, as amended (16 USC 470 et seq., 36 CFR 800). The project included all active duty Army installations, National Guard facilities, and Army Reserve Regional Support Commands in the...

  • Rhode Island Department of Transportation Archaeological Collections Center, Collections Management Plan (2004)
    DOCUMENT Full-Text US Army Corps of Engineers Mandatory Center of Expertise for the Curation and Management of Archaeological Collections, St. Louis District.

    This Collections Management Plan has been developed in order to standardize the preparation of collections for long-term curation and preservation in the new Rhode Island Department of Transportation Archaeological Collections Center that is now housed in the historic Woonsocket Depot in the City of Woonsocket. Standardization is necessary to enable staff to monitor collections efficiently and effectively. These standards and guidelines clarify requirements for all collections which Rhode...

  • Saving the Past from the Future: Archaeological Curation in the St. Louis District (1991)
    DOCUMENT Full-Text Michael K. Trimble. Thomas B. Meyers.

    The St. Louis District, Corps of Engineers has been involved with the management of archaeological resources removed from District property for over 30 years. At least 92 collection-generating projects were completed during this period. Vast quantities of archaeological materials salvaged from these operations are now stored in the repositories of ten curatorial institutions in Missouri and Illinois. Over the years, Corps personnel have become increasingly aware of the inability of most...

  • Tulsa District Wister Lake NAGPRA Collection Rehabilitation Report (2009)
    DOCUMENT Full-Text Amy Williams.

    The Tulsa District tasked the St. Louis District with identifying NAGPRA-related materials within the Wister Lake collections and separating these from the general, non-burial materials. Through consultation between the St. Louis and the Tulsa Districts, it was determined that the best course of action would be to transfer the Wister Lake NAGPRA collection of artifacts to the St. Louis District’s archaeological rehabilitation laboratory for this process. This is an arbitrary collection of...

  • US Air Force, Air Mobility Command Manual for the Collections Management Database (2001)
    DOCUMENT Full-Text Natalie M. Drew. James P. Ferguson.

    On 12 October 1990, 36 CFR Part 79, Curation of Federally-Owned and Administered Archaeological Collections, was enacted by Congress to establish minimum standards for the curation of federal collections. In the intervening seven years, the US Army Corps of Engineers Mandatory Center of Expertise for the Curation of Archaeological Collections (MCX-CMAC) has performed many assessments of the curation condition of federal archaeological collections. One of the major problems identified during the...

  • US Army Corps of Engineers Archaeological Collections Condition Assessment (2000)
    DOCUMENT Full-Text US Army Corps of Engineers Mandatory Center of Expertise for the Curation and Management of Archaeological Collections, St. Louis District.

    The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) is responsible for the management of thousands of cultural resources on Corps property and for the curation of millions of archaeological and historical resources removed from these lands. As mandated by federal regulation, agencies are required to ensure that all recovered archaeological materials and the associated records are adequately curated and are accessible for use by the Native Americans, public, and researchers. Unfortunately, funding...

  • US Army National Guard Cultural Resources and NAGPRA Status - Federally Owned and Federally Supported Facilities in the 50 United States and the District of Columbia (2007)
    DOCUMENT Full-Text Kiesha M. Hurst. Heather Pobst. Jennifer Riordan. Cathy A. Van Arsdale. Amy Williams.

    Between August 1997 and March 2000 personnel from the U.S. Army Engineer District, St. Louis located archaeological collections, conducted curation needs assessments for Army National Guard archaeological collections from across the United States and U.S. Territories, and conveyed the findings in three reports (1998 and 2000). In 2006, the National Guard Bureau (NGB) tasked the St. Louis District with updating this information through telephone and electronic mail correspondence with Army...