Artifact Catalog, Millers Ferry 1963-1968

Summary

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), Mobile District archaeological collections were brought to the Veterans Curation Program’s (VCP) Augusta laboratory in February 2013. The Augusta VCP laboratory is a USACE, St. Louis District’s Mandatory Center of Expertise for the Curation and Management of Archaeological Collections program, which is staffed through New South Associates, Inc., an archaeological contract firm located in Stone Mountain, Georgia.

The procedures employed to sort and re-house the archaeological material from the Millers Ferry 1963-1968 investigation are discussed below and follow the standard protocols utilized by the Augusta VCP laboratory. In the re-housing process of each investigative effort of the USACE, Mobile District collection, the same standard procedures and Office of Archaeological Research (OAR) guidelines were followed. Upon completion of the curation management project, the collection was sent to the University of Alabama, OAR for permanent curation. Additional information regarding this collection can be found in the associated Millers Ferry 1963-1968 archives collection which is currently housed at OAR in Moundville, Alabama.

The procedures employed by the St. Louis VCP to rehouse the archaeological material from the Millers Ferry 1963-1968 investigation are discussed in the Artifact Report. The report can be found in tDAR at https://core.tdar.org/document/426077.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Millers Ferry 1963-1968

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Individual & Institutional Roles

Contact(s): US Army Corps of Engineers Mandatory Center of Expertise for the Curation and Management of Archaeological Collections, St. Louis District

Field Director(s): Craig Sheldon

Principal Investigator(s): David L. DeJarnette

Landowner(s): US Army Corps of Engineers, Mobile District

Sponsor(s): US Army Corps of Engineers Mandatory Center of Expertise for the Curation and Management of Archaeological Collections, St. Louis District

Repository(s): Office of Archaeological Research, Moundville, Alabama

Prepared By(s): Veterans Curation Program

Submitted To(s): US Army Corps of Engineers, Mobile District

Notes

General Note: The digital materials in this collection were processed by the Veterans Curation Program (VCP), and include the artifact catalog, artifact report, finding aid, original investigation report, oversized material spreadsheet, photographic material spreadsheet, scanned asset key, and select archival and artifact photographs. Additional digital materials held by the VCP include additional artifact photographs, box labels, budget documentation, contracts, daily reports, document folder listing, field specimen forms, initial data collection, maps, notes, OAR document, OAR photo inventory, records removal sheet, sketches, survey documents, and trench profiles. For additional information on these materials, refer to the Finding Aid.

Source Collections

Millers Ferry 1963-1968 collection stored at the Office of Archaeological Research, Moundville, Alabama.

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