Complying with NAGPRA at the Largest Public Utility: It’s Complicated
Author(s): Thomas Maher
Year: 2016
Summary
The Tennessee Valley Authority has control of approximately 8,000 human remains and 100,000 funerary objects stored in multiple major research Universities in the southeastern United States. It also manages 293,000 acres of land with 11,000 known archaeological sites. The successes, pitfalls and unexpected discoveries resulting from complying with NAGPRA over the last six years are evaluated in light of the future of prehistoric archaeology in the southeast U.S.
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Complying with NAGPRA at the Largest Public Utility: It’s Complicated. Thomas Maher. Presented at The 81st Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Orlando, Florida. 2016 ( tDAR id: 404086)
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Keywords
General
Prehistory
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Repatriation
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Tennessee Valley Authority
Geographic Keywords
North America - Southeast
Spatial Coverage
min long: -91.274; min lat: 24.847 ; max long: -72.642; max lat: 36.386 ;