Artifact Report, New Geneva Pottery Waster and Dock Site (36FA404) 1995

Author(s): Crystal Bryant

Year: 2013

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 Mandatory Center of Expertise for the Curation and Management of Archaeological Collections program, which is staffed through John Milner Associates, Inc. (JMA), an archaeological contract firm located In Alexandria, Virginia.

The procedures employed to re-house the archaeological material from the New Geneva Pottery Waster and Dock Site (36FA404) Investigation are discussed below and follow those procedures utilized by the Alexandria VCP laboratory. The re-housing process of each investigative effort of the USACE, Pittsburgh District the VCP 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/document/427886).

Cite this Record

Artifact Report, New Geneva Pottery Waster and Dock Site (36FA404) 1995. Crystal Bryant. 2013 ( tDAR id: 426084) ; doi:10.6067/XCV8426084

Keywords

Material
Building Materials • Ceramic • Chipped Stone • Glass • Metal • Mineral • Wood

Site Name
36FA404 • 36FA91

Investigation Types
Heritage Management

General
Artifact Report • Brick • Collections Management • Historic Base Sherd • Historic Body Sherd • Historic Neck Sherd • Kiln furniture • Lithic • Marble • Mortar • Nail • Slag • Tile • Wire

Geographic Keywords
Grays Landing Lock and Dam • Monongahela River, Pennsylvania • New Geneva, Pennsylania • Pennsylvania (State / Territory)

Spatial Coverage

min long: -80.026; min lat: 39.743 ; max long: -79.887; max lat: 39.993 ;

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

Landowner(s): US Army Corps of Engineers, Pittsburg 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, Pittsburg 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, scanned asset key, and select artifact photographs. Additional digital materials held by the VCP include additional artifact photographs, box inventory, document folder listing, initial data collection, and personal notes. For additional information on these materials, refer to the Finding Aid.

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