Artifact Report, Confiscated Shoreline Collection from Strom Thurmond Lake 2001

Summary

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), Savannah District archaeological collections weresent to the Veterans Curation Program’s (VCP) Washington, DC 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. (JMA), an archaeological contract firm located in Alexandria, Virginia.

The procedures employed to rehouse the archaeological material from the Confiscated Shoreline Collection from Strom Thurmond Lake 2001 collection were discussed below and followed those procedures utilized by the Alexandria VCP laboratory. In the rehousing process of each investigative effort of the USACE, Savannah District collection, the same standard procedures and curation guidelines were followed. Upon completion of the curation management project, the collection was sent to the John Milner Associates, Inc., Alexandria office, for storage until a permanent repository is selected.

The artifact catalog can be found in tDAR at https://core.tdar.org/dataset/437543.

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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

Landowner(s): US Army Corps of Engineers, Savannah 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): US Army Corps of Engineers, Savannah District

Prepared By(s): Veterans Curation Program

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

Notes

General Note: The digital materials in this collection were processed by the Veterans Curation Program (VCP), and include the artifact catalog, artifact report, and select artifact photographs. Additional digital materials held by the VCP include additional artifact photographs. For additional information on these materials, refer to the Finding Aid.

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