Artifact Report, Paynetown Light Site (12MO193) 1987

Summary

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), Louisville District archaeological collections were sent to the Veterans Curation Project’s (VCP) St. Louis laboratory in the fall of 2009. The VCP St.Louis laboratory was established by USACE, St. Louis District’s Mandatory Center of Expertise for the Curation and Management of Archaeological Collections using American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 funds and staffed through Brockington and Associates, Inc.

The procedures employed to re-house the archaeological material from the Paynetown Light investigation are discussed below and follow those procedures utilized by the VCP St. Louis laboratory. In the re-housing process of each investigative effort of the USACE, Louisville District collection, the same standard procedures and Glenn A. Black Laboratory of Archaeology, Indiana University (GBL) guidelines were followed. Upon completion of the curation management projects, collections were sent to GBL for permanent curation.

The artifact database can be found in tDAR at (https://core.tdar.org/dataset/425813/artifact-database-paynetown-light-site-12mo193-1987)

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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

Principal Investigator(s): Patrick J. Munson

Landowner(s): US Army Corps of Engineers, Louisville 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): Glenn A. Black Laboratory of Archaeology, Indiana University

Prepared By(s): Veterans Curation Program

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

Notes

General Note: The digital materials in this collection were processed by the Veterans Curation Program (VCP), and include the artifact database, artifact report, finding aid, original investigation report, oversized material database, photographic material database, scanned asset key, and select archival and artifact photographs. Additional digital materials held by the VCP include additional archival and artifact photographs, box inventories, card stock inserts, correspondence, document folder listing, feature records, flotation sample analysis, GBL catalog, maps, notes, oversized material labels, radiocarbon sample data sheet, records removal sheet, site photographs, and trench summaries. For additional information on these materials, refer to the Finding Aid.

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