Stored and Forgotten: Academic Research Projects using Archaeological Collections
Author(s): Paola Schiappacasse
Year: 2018
Summary
Around the world, there are a large number of archaeological collections in the repositories of museums, universities, foundations, government agencies and other organizations. The curation crisis has generated a great deal of debate as to how we can help to ameliorate the various problems faced in collections management. This paper will present a proposal of how collections can be used to develop academic projects, both in local repositories and those outside the country, by outlining case studies that can serve as a template for research design. Finally, it will be demonstrated that the collaboration between personnel from the repositories and universities is the ideal alliance to encourage students to revisit archaeological collections for their research projects.
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Stored and Forgotten: Academic Research Projects using Archaeological Collections. Paola Schiappacasse. Presented at The 82nd Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Washington, DC. 2018 ( tDAR id: 443920)
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Geographic Keywords
Caribbean
Spatial Coverage
min long: -90.747; min lat: 3.25 ; max long: -48.999; max lat: 27.683 ;
Record Identifiers
Abstract Id(s): 20031