Boxed but not Forgotten Redux or: How I Learned to Stop Digging and Love Old Collections
Part of: Society for Historical Archaeology 2020
This collection contains the abstracts of the papers presented in the session entitled "Boxed but not Forgotten Redux or: How I Learned to Stop Digging and Love Old Collections," at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology.
What value are old collections that sit in a repository collecting dust and rust? If we are retaining objects simply for the sake of doing so, then their potential for providing new insights is zero. The field mantra of “keep everything” is at times the bane of any curation facility that has a mandate to care for its collections in perpetuity. Yet, researchers are finding new ways to re-examine and scrutinize long forgotten collections that continue to provide new insights about the past. This session sponsored by the SHA’s Committee on Collections and Curation, explores the continuing expansion of collections-based research in historical archaeology.
Other Keywords
Collections •
legacy collections •
Zooarchaeology •
Provenience •
Data Recovery •
Native American •
Industry •
Artifact Analysis •
Economy •
Material Culture
Temporal Keywords
18th Century •
Mission Period •
Late 18th Century •
Prehistoric and Historic •
17th-20th Centuries •
19th Century •
17th Century •
Colonial •
Eighteenth and nineteenth centuries •
Eighteenth-Century
Geographic Keywords
Coahuila (State / Territory) •
New Mexico (State / Territory) •
Oklahoma (State / Territory) •
Arizona (State / Territory) •
Texas (State / Territory) •
Sonora (State / Territory) •
United States of America (Country) •
Chihuahua (State / Territory) •
Nuevo Leon (State / Territory) •
Delaware (State / Territory)
Resources Inside This Collection (Viewing 1-14 of 14)
- Documents (14)
Becoming Historic? Reassessing the Significance of Mid-Twentieth Century Debris in Nineteenth Century Cellars (2020)
Facing a Mystery: An Anthropomorphic Clay Head (Re)Discovered at Nomini Plantation, Westmoreland County, Virginia (2020)