Why we conserve artifacts, the CSS Georgia Story.
Author(s): Jim Jobling
Year: 2016
Summary
As part of the Savannah Harbor Expansion Project, the USACE, Savannah District, tasked Panamerican Consultants with archaeologically recording and systematically recovering the artifacts from the wreck of the CSS Georgia. More than 125 tons of material was recovered, which created a few interesting challenges for the field crew and the Conservation Research Lab. What artifacts does one conserve, and what do we document and rebury. This paper presents a number of ways that a well-equipped facility can help the field archaeologist, in documenting and recording a large artifact assemblage.
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Why we conserve artifacts, the CSS Georgia Story.. Jim Jobling. Presented at Society for Historical Archaeology, Washington, D.C. 2016 ( tDAR id: 434949)
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Keywords
General
Conservation
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Ironclad
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Shipwreck
Geographic Keywords
North America
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United States of America
Temporal Keywords
Civil War
Spatial Coverage
min long: -129.199; min lat: 24.495 ; max long: -66.973; max lat: 49.359 ;
Individual & Institutional Roles
Contact(s): Society for Historical Archaeology
Record Identifiers
PaperId(s): 922