Artifact Report, Archaeological Survey and Test Excavations in the Burnsville Reservoir 1971-1975

Summary

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), Huntington District archaeological collections were sent to the Veterans Curation Program’s (VCP) Alexandria, Virginia laboratory in September 2014. 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 the archaeological contracting firms, Cogstone Berger, JV.

The procedures employed to re-house the archaeological material from the Archaeological Survey and Test Excavations in the Burnsville Reservoir 1971-1975 investigation are discussed below and follow those procedures utilized by the Alexandria VCP laboratory. In the re-housing process of each investigative effort of the USACE, Huntington District collection, the same standard procedures and Archaeological Collections Facility, Grave Creek Mound Historic Site guidelines were followed. Upon completion of the curation management project, the collection was sent to Archaeological Collections Facility, Grave Creek Mound Historic Site for permanent curation.

The artifact database can be found in tDAR at https://core.tdar.org/dataset/447813

Cite this Record

Artifact Report, Archaeological Survey and Test Excavations in the Burnsville Reservoir 1971-1975. Josh Williamson. 2018 ( tDAR id: 447811) ; doi:10.6067/XCV8447811

Spatial Coverage

min long: -80.878; min lat: 38.737 ; max long: -80.436; max lat: 38.912 ;

Record Identifiers

Contract No. (s): CX-4000-3-0031

Notes

General Note: The digital materials in this collection were processed by the Veterans Curation Program (VCP), and includes archival photographs, artifact report, artifact catalog, finding aid, original investigation report, oversized material spreadsheet, photographic material spreadsheet, scanned asset key and select artifact photographs. Additional digital materials held by the VCP include additional artifact photographs, collection map, correspondence, data report, document folder listing, excavation record, feature record, field notes, initial data notes, original investigation report annotated, oversized labels, petroglyph record, site summary and site survey record. For additional information on these materials, refer to the finding aid.

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