Artifacts from US Military Installation: Dusty Treasures or Unwanted Objects
Author(s): George W. Calfas
Year: 2017
Summary
Collections allow archaeologists and other scholars the opportunity a means to view past lifeways. Those lifeways are connected to past histories that are situated in a time and place. Context is everything! However, what happens when artifacts are lost misplaced, or mis-catalogued? Archaeologists across the globe are working on shoe-string budgets and are being asked to do more with less. Due to these shrinking budgets the collections that we painstakingly curate often are given less care and often do nothing more than become reintroduced into a new archaeological record; the collection facility. This paper will explore issues in artifact care, cataloging, and storage encountered by Department of Defense installation archaeologists.
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Artifacts from US Military Installation: Dusty Treasures or Unwanted Objects. George W. Calfas. Presented at Society for Historical Archaeology, Fort Worth, TX. 2017 ( tDAR id: 435204)
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Keywords
General
Artifacts
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Collections
Geographic Keywords
North America
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United States of America
Temporal Keywords
1750-1950
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): 541