Artifact Report, Replacement of Locks and Dams 7 and 8, Monongahela River 1986

Summary

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), Pittsburgh District archaeological collections were sent to the Veterans Curation Program's (VCP) Washington, D.C., laboratory in the winter of 2010 and then moved to the Alexandria laboratory in August 2011. The Alexandria 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 John Milner Associates, Inc., an archaeological contract firm located in Alexandria, Virginia.

The procedures employed to re-house the archaeological material from the Replacement of Locks and Dams 7 and 8, Monongahela River 1986, investigation are discussed below and follow those procedures utilized by the VCP Alexandria laboratory. In the re-housing process of each investigative effort of the USACE, Pittsburgh District collection, the same standard procedures and The State Museum of Pennsylvania guidelines were followed. Upon completion of the curation management project, the collection was sent to The State Museum of Pennsylvania for permanent curation. The artifact database can be found in (tDAR at https://core.tdar.org/dataset/427884).

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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; US Army Corps of Engineers, Pittsburgh District

Principal Investigator(s): Beverly A. Mitchum

Landowner(s): US Army Corps of Engineers, Pittsburgh 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): Pennsylvania State Museum, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania

Prepared By(s): Veterans Curation Program

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

Record Identifiers

Contract No.(s): DACW 59-85-M-0662

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, scanned asset key, and select artifact photographs. Additional digital materials held by the VCP include additional artifact photographs, document folder listing, initial data collection, inventory, and notes. For additional information on these materials, refer to the Finding Aid.

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