To Curate or Not to Curate: Surprises, Remorse, and Archaeological Grey Area
Part of: Society for American Archaeology 84th Annual Meeting, Albuquerque, NM (2019)
This collection contains the abstracts of the papers presented in the session entitled "To Curate or Not to Curate: Surprises, Remorse, and Archaeological Grey Area," at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.
While solid accessioning policies guide institutions, museum practitioners continue to be surprised and sometimes perplexed by how to handle questionable incoming archaeological items. In this session, a variety of federal agency and non-federal museum professionals explore the grey area of collecting and curating archaeological material, primarily from the Southwestern United States. Topics range from what is collected from archaeological sites, what is left behind, and how collecting decisions are made; what and how materials are returned to museums from illegal surface collecting and digging; and how incoming archaeological material is assessed at the institutional level utilizing ethical, legal, practical, and cultural considerations.
Other Keywords
Museums, Collections, and Repatriation •
Ancestral Pueblo •
Cultural Resources and Heritage Management •
Conservation and Curation •
Cultural Heritage and Preservation •
Lithic Analysis •
Curation •
Cultural Resource Management •
Hohokam
Geographic Keywords
United States of America (Country) •
North America (Continent) •
USA (Country) •
New Mexico (State / Territory) •
Oklahoma (State / Territory) •
Arizona (State / Territory) •
Texas (State / Territory) •
Sonora (State / Territory) •
Chihuahua (State / Territory) •
Baja California (State / Territory)
Resources Inside This Collection (Viewing 1-10 of 10)
- Documents (10)
- Archaeological Collecting at the Museum of Northern Arizona: Then and Now (2019)
- Beyond Ethical, Legal and Practical Considerations: Unprovenienced Archaeological Items at Descendant Tribal Heritage Centers and Museums (2019)
- Competing Cultures: A New Age in Chaco Canyon (2019)
- Field-Based Decisions on Collection of Archaeological Materials: Monitoring and Ethics (2019)
- From Grandma’s Attic to Amnesty Programs: Adventures in Accessioning Archaeological Collections (2019)
- Looted and Recovered Artifacts: The Art of Deciding What to Curate as Demonstrated Through the Cerberus Collection (2019)
- Please Put it Back: A Non-NAGPRA Case of Reburial (2019)
- Remorseful Returns: What to do with Returned Surface-Collected Items from National Park Service Units (2019)
- To Collect or Not to Collect: That is the Question ...But Where is the Point? (2019)
- To Curate or Not to Curate: Legal, Ethical, and Practical Considerations at the Arizona State Museum (2019)